Heat and mass transfer in saturated porous media with ice inclusions

This paper continues the theoretical exploration of the heat and mass transfer in a biporous medium with the coupled phase transformations. A more complicated system is considered, such as porous medium-ice-aqueous solution. General statements been formulated for a simple medium [4], remain in force for the given system: the heat and mass fluxes each depend linearly on all thermodynamical forces, the transport coefficients satisfy the Onsager reciprocal relations; the coupled phase transformations intensify significantly the cross effects.The presence of contaminants in water imparts the osmotic properties to the biporous medium and decreases the rate of the heat and mass transfer in the system. The dissolved matter takes effect beginning with the concentration of ∼0.001 mol l−1. At the high concentration of the aqueous solution (>0.1 mol l−1) the cross effects become negligible small and the medium loses its unique capacities.