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Hauptverfasser: Liu, Weifan, Xu, Longqian, Yang, Zezhou, Zhang, Xudong, Lin, Shihong
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Veröffentlicht: 2024
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Online-Zugang:https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.08234
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author Liu, Weifan
Xu, Longqian
Yang, Zezhou
Zhang, Xudong
Lin, Shihong
author_facet Liu, Weifan
Xu, Longqian
Yang, Zezhou
Zhang, Xudong
Lin, Shihong
contents Electro-sorption (ES) is a research frontier in electrochemical separation, with proven potential applications in desalination, wastewater treatment, and selective resource extraction. However, due to the limited adsorption capacity of film electrodes, ES requires short circuiting or circuit reversal, accompanied by solution-switch between the feed solution and receiving solution, to sustain desalination over many charging-discharge cycles. In the literature, solution-switch have been commonly ignored to simplify experimental procedures and its impacts on separation performance are thus not well understood. This study aims to provide a quantitative analysis of the impacts of mixing due to solution-switch on the performance of ES-based desalination. A numerical model of ES has been employed to evaluate the adverse effects of solution-switch on the desalination performance in three different operation modes. The analysis reveals that the impacts of mixing due to solution-switch are more severe with a larger concentration difference between the desalinated water and the brine and provides insights on the effectiveness of increasing electrode loading or specific capacity in mitigating the detrimental impacts of mixing. Even with state-of-the-art systems, producing freshwater from seawater or even brackish water with medium-to-high salinity is practically challenging due to the presence of solution-switch.
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spellingShingle Mixing due to Solution-switch Limits the Performance of Electro-sorption for Desalination
Liu, Weifan
Xu, Longqian
Yang, Zezhou
Zhang, Xudong
Lin, Shihong
Chemical Physics
Electro-sorption (ES) is a research frontier in electrochemical separation, with proven potential applications in desalination, wastewater treatment, and selective resource extraction. However, due to the limited adsorption capacity of film electrodes, ES requires short circuiting or circuit reversal, accompanied by solution-switch between the feed solution and receiving solution, to sustain desalination over many charging-discharge cycles. In the literature, solution-switch have been commonly ignored to simplify experimental procedures and its impacts on separation performance are thus not well understood. This study aims to provide a quantitative analysis of the impacts of mixing due to solution-switch on the performance of ES-based desalination. A numerical model of ES has been employed to evaluate the adverse effects of solution-switch on the desalination performance in three different operation modes. The analysis reveals that the impacts of mixing due to solution-switch are more severe with a larger concentration difference between the desalinated water and the brine and provides insights on the effectiveness of increasing electrode loading or specific capacity in mitigating the detrimental impacts of mixing. Even with state-of-the-art systems, producing freshwater from seawater or even brackish water with medium-to-high salinity is practically challenging due to the presence of solution-switch.
title Mixing due to Solution-switch Limits the Performance of Electro-sorption for Desalination
topic Chemical Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.08234