The dielectric friction effect under electrolyte transfer in an aquatic environment

Abstract

Natural and industrial waters commonly contain admixtures of electrolytes distributed irregularly in the system. It is shown that the resulting inner mass transfer within the volume or liquid layers is accompanied with the increment of the veritable part of the short-wave permittivity. The microsecond electric oscillators likely causing this effect belong to ion-molecular complexes destroyed under the attenuation of mass transfer but capable of occurring for a long time in a thixotropic medium. The discovered effect denoted as dielectric friction allows one to control the degree of completeness of the processes of mixing of electrolyte solutions at the sites of wastewater discharge, in riverine deltas, in mixing chambers, etc.