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Kogler A, Sharma N, Tiburcio D, Gong M, Miller DM, Williams KS, Chen X, Tarpeh WA. Long-Term Robustness and Failure Mechanisms of Electrochemical Stripping for Wastewater Ammonia Recovery. ACS ENVIRONMENTAL AU 2024; 4:89-105. [PMID: 38525023 PMCID: PMC10958661 DOI: 10.1021/acsenvironau.3c00058] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/21/2023] [Revised: 12/14/2023] [Accepted: 12/22/2023] [Indexed: 03/26/2024]
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Nitrogen in wastewater has negative environmental, human health, and economic impacts but can be recovered to reduce the costs and environmental impacts of wastewater treatment and chemical production. To recover ammonia/ammonium (total ammonia nitrogen, TAN) from urine, we operated electrochemical stripping (ECS) for over a month, achieving 83.4 ± 1.5% TAN removal and 73.0 ± 2.9% TAN recovery. With two reactors, we recovered sixteen 500-mL batches (8 L total) of ammonium sulfate (20.9 g/L TAN) approaching commercial fertilizer concentrations (28.4 g/L TAN) and often having >95% purity. While evaluating the operation and maintenance needs, we identified pH, full-cell voltage, product volume, and water flux into the product as informative process monitoring parameters that can be inexpensively and rapidly measured. Characterization of fouled cation exchange and omniphobic membranes informs cleaning and reactor modifications to reduce fouling with organics and calcium/magnesium salts. To evaluate the impact of urine collection and storage on ECS, we conducted experiments with urine at different levels of dilution with flush water, extents of divalent cation precipitation, and degrees of hydrolysis. ECS effectively treated urine under all conditions, but minimizing flush water and ensuring storage until complete hydrolysis would enable energy-efficient TAN recovery. Our experimental results and cost analysis motivate a multifaceted approach to improving ECS's technical and economic viability by extending component lifetimes, decreasing component costs, and reducing energy consumption through material, reactor, and process engineering. In summary, we demonstrated urine treatment as a foothold for electrochemical nutrient recovery from wastewater while supporting the applicability of ECS to seven other wastewaters with widely varying characteristics. Our findings will facilitate the scale-up and deployment of electrochemical nutrient recovery technologies, enabling a circular nitrogen economy that fosters sanitation provision, efficient chemical production, and water resource protection.
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- Anna Kogler
- Department
of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United States
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- Stanford
Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, SLAC
National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94205, United States
- Department
of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, 443 Via Ortega, Room 387, Stanford, California 94305, United States
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- Department
of Mechanical Engineering, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122, United States
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- Department
of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, 443 Via Ortega, Room 387, Stanford, California 94305, United States
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- Department
of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, 443 Via Ortega, Room 387, Stanford, California 94305, United States
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- Department
of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, 443 Via Ortega, Room 387, Stanford, California 94305, United States
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- Department
of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, 443 Via Ortega, Room 387, Stanford, California 94305, United States
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- Department
of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, 443 Via Ortega, Room 387, Stanford, California 94305, United States
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Belhaj I, Faria M, Šljukić B, Geraldes V, Santos DMF. Bipolar Membranes for Direct Borohydride Fuel Cells-A Review. MEMBRANES 2023; 13:730. [PMID: 37623791 PMCID: PMC10456332 DOI: 10.3390/membranes13080730] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2023] [Revised: 08/06/2023] [Accepted: 08/10/2023] [Indexed: 08/26/2023]
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Direct liquid fuel cells (DLFCs) operate directly on liquid fuel instead of hydrogen, as in proton-exchange membrane fuel cells. DLFCs have the advantages of higher energy densities and fewer issues with the transportation and storage of their fuels compared with compressed hydrogen and are adapted to mobile applications. Among DLFCs, the direct borohydride-hydrogen peroxide fuel cell (DBPFC) is one of the most promising liquid fuel cell technologies. DBPFCs are fed sodium borohydride (NaBH4) as the fuel and hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) as the oxidant. Introducing H2O2 as the oxidant brings further advantages to DBPFC regarding higher theoretical cell voltage (3.01 V) than typical direct borohydride fuel cells operating on oxygen (1.64 V). The present review examines different membrane types for use in borohydride fuel cells, particularly emphasizing the importance of using bipolar membranes (BPMs). The combination of a cation-exchange membrane (CEM) and anion-exchange membrane (AEM) in the structure of BPMs makes them ideal for DBPFCs. BPMs maintain the required pH gradient between the alkaline NaBH4 anolyte and the acidic H2O2 catholyte, efficiently preventing the crossover of the involved species. This review highlights the vast potential application of BPMs and the need for ongoing research and development in DBPFCs. This will allow for fully realizing the significance of BPMs and their potential application, as there is still not enough published research in the field.
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- Center of Physics and Engineering of Advanced Materials, Laboratory for Physics of Materials and Emerging Technologies, Chemical Engineering Department, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, 1049-001 Lisbon, Portugal; (I.B.); (M.F.); (B.Š.); (V.G.)
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Ganchenko GS, Alekseev MS, Moroz IA, Mareev SA, Shelistov VS, Demekhin EA. Electrokinetic and Electroconvective Effects in Ternary Electrolyte Near Ion-Selective Microsphere. MEMBRANES 2023; 13:membranes13050503. [PMID: 37233564 DOI: 10.3390/membranes13050503] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2023] [Revised: 05/05/2023] [Accepted: 05/08/2023] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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The paper presents theoretical and experimental investigations of the behavior of an electrolyte solution with three types of ions near an ion-selective microparticle with electrokinetically and pressure-driven flow. A special experimental cell has been developed for the investigations. An anion-selective spherical particle composed of ion-exchange resin is fixed in the center of the cell. An enriched region with a high salt concentration appears at the anode side of the particle when an electric field is turned on, according to the nonequilibrium electrosmosis behavior. A similar region exists near a flat anion-selective membrane. However, the enriched region near the particle produces a concentration jet that spreads downstream akin to a wake behind an axisymmetrical body. The fluorescent cations of Rhodamine-6G dye are chosen as the third species in the experiments. The ions of Rhodamine-6G have a 10-fold lower diffusion coefficient than the ions of potassium while bearing the same valency. This paper shows that the concentration jet behavior is described accurately enough with the mathematical model of a far axisymmetric wake behind a body in a fluid flow. The third species also forms an enriched jet, but its distribution turns out to be more complex. The concentration of the third species increases in the jet with an increase in pressure gradient. The pressure-driven flow stabilizes the jet, yet electroconvection has been observed near the microparticle for sufficiently strong electric fields. The electrokinetic instability and the electroconvection partially destroy the concentration jet of salt and the third species. The conducted experiments show good qualitative agreement with the numerical simulations. The presented results could be used in future for implementing microdevices based on membrane technology for solving problems of detection and preconcentration, and thus simplifying chemical and medical analyses utilizing the superconcentration phenomenon. Such devices are called membrane sensors, and are actively being studied.
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- Georgy S Ganchenko
- Laboratory of Micro- and Nanoscale Electro- and Hydrodynamics, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, 53 Leningradsky Prospect str., Moscow 125167, Russia
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- Laboratory of Micro- and Nanoscale Electro- and Hydrodynamics, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, 53 Leningradsky Prospect str., Moscow 125167, Russia
- Membrane Institute, Kuban State University, 149 Stavropolskaya str., Krasnodar 350040, Russia
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- Membrane Institute, Kuban State University, 149 Stavropolskaya str., Krasnodar 350040, Russia
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- Membrane Institute, Kuban State University, 149 Stavropolskaya str., Krasnodar 350040, Russia
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- Laboratory of Micro- and Nanoscale Electro- and Hydrodynamics, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, 53 Leningradsky Prospect str., Moscow 125167, Russia
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- Laboratory of Micro- and Nanoscale Electro- and Hydrodynamics, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, 53 Leningradsky Prospect str., Moscow 125167, Russia
- Laboratory of General Aeromechanics, Institute of Mechanics, Moscow State University, 1 Michurinsky Prospect, Moscow 119192, Russia
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Kozmai AE, Mareev SA, Butylskii DY, Ruleva VD, Pismenskaya ND, Nikonenko VV. Low-frequency impedance of ion-exchange membrane with electrically heterogeneous surface. Electrochim Acta 2023. [DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2023.142285] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/31/2023]
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Butylskii DY, Troitskiy VA, Ponomar MA, Moroz IA, Sabbatovskiy KG, Sharafan MV. Efficient Anion-Exchange Membranes with Anti-Scaling Properties Obtained by Surface Modification of Commercial Membranes Using a Polyquaternium-22. MEMBRANES 2022; 12:membranes12111065. [PMID: 36363620 PMCID: PMC9693783 DOI: 10.3390/membranes12111065] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/21/2022] [Revised: 10/12/2022] [Accepted: 10/26/2022] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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Anion-exchange membranes modified with a polyquaternium-22 (PQ-22) polymer were studied for their use in electrodialysis. The use of PQ-22 for modification makes it possible to "replace" weakly basic amino groups on the membrane surface with quaternary amino groups. It was found that the content of quaternary amino groups in PQ-22 is higher than the content of carboxyl groups, which is the reason for the effectiveness of this polymer even when modifying Ralex AHM-PES membranes that initially contain only quaternary amino groups. In the case of membranes containing weakly basic amino groups, the PQ-22 polymer modification efficiency is even higher. The surface charge of the modified MA-41P membrane increased, while the limiting current density on the current-voltage curves increased by more than 1.5 times and the plateau length decreased by 2.5 times. These and other characteristics indicate that the rate of water splitting decreased and the electroconvective mixing at the membrane surface intensified, which was confirmed by direct visualization of vortex structures. Increasing the surface charge of the commercial MA-41P anion-exchange membrane, reducing the rate of water splitting, and enhancing electroconvection leads to mitigated scaling on its surface during electrodialysis.
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- Dmitrii Y. Butylskii
- Membrane Institute, Kuban State University, 149 Stavropolskaya St., 350040 Krasnodar, Russia
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- Membrane Institute, Kuban State University, 149 Stavropolskaya St., 350040 Krasnodar, Russia
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- Membrane Institute, Kuban State University, 149 Stavropolskaya St., 350040 Krasnodar, Russia
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- Membrane Institute, Kuban State University, 149 Stavropolskaya St., 350040 Krasnodar, Russia
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- Frumkin Intstitute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry RAS, 31 Leninsky Prospekt, 119071 Moscow, Russia
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- Membrane Institute, Kuban State University, 149 Stavropolskaya St., 350040 Krasnodar, Russia
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Tsygurina KA, Kirichenko EV, Kirichenko KA. Chronopotentiograms of MK-40 Cation Exchange Membrane Layer-by-Layer Modified with Polyallylamine and Sodium Polystyrene Sulfonate. MEMBRANES AND MEMBRANE TECHNOLOGIES 2022. [DOI: 10.1134/s2517751622010085] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Rotta EH, Marder L, Pérez-Herranz V, Bernardes AM. Characterization of an anion-exchange membrane subjected to phosphate and sulfate separation by electrodialysis at overlimiting current density condition. J Memb Sci 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2021.119510] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Investigation of ion-exchange membranes by means of chronopotentiometry: A comprehensive review on this highly informative and multipurpose technique. Adv Colloid Interface Sci 2021; 293:102439. [PMID: 34058435 DOI: 10.1016/j.cis.2021.102439] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/04/2021] [Revised: 05/06/2021] [Accepted: 05/07/2021] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Electrodialysis is mostly used for drinking water production but it has gained applicability in different new fields in recent decades. Membrane characteristics and ion transport properties strongly influence the efficiency of electrodialysis and must be evaluated to avoid an intense energy consumption and ensure long membrane times of usage. To this aim, conducting studies on ion transport across membranes is essential. Several dynamic characterization methods can be employed, among which, chronopotentiometry has shown special relevance because it allows a direct access to the contribution of the potential in different states of the membrane/solution system. The present paper provides a critical review on the use of chronopotentiometry to determine the main membrane transport properties and to evaluate mass transfer phenomena. Properties, such as limiting current density, electrical resistances, plateau length, transport number of counter-ions in the membrane, transition times, and apparent fraction of membrane conductive area have been intensively discussed in the literature and are presented in this review. Some of the phenomena evaluated using this technique are concentration polarization, gravitational convection, electroconvection, water dissociation, and fouling/scaling, all of them also shown herein. Mathematical and experimental studies were considered. New trends in chronopotentiometric studies should include ion-exchange membranes that have been recently developed (presenting anti-fouling, anti-microbial, and monovalent-selective properties) and a deeper discussion on the behaviour of complex solutions that have been often treated by electrodialysis, such as municipal wastewaters. New mathematical models, especially 3D ones, are also expected to be developed in the coming years.
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Titorova V, Mareev S, Gorobchenko A, Gil V, Nikonenko V, Sabbatovskii K, Pismenskaya N. Effect of current-induced coion transfer on the shape of chronopotentiograms of cation-exchange membranes. J Memb Sci 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2020.119036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Pärnamäe R, Mareev S, Nikonenko V, Melnikov S, Sheldeshov N, Zabolotskii V, Hamelers H, Tedesco M. Bipolar membranes: A review on principles, latest developments, and applications. J Memb Sci 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2020.118538] [Citation(s) in RCA: 117] [Impact Index Per Article: 39.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Barros KS, Martí-Calatayud MC, Ortega EM, Pérez-Herranz V, Espinosa DCR. Chronopotentiometric study on the simultaneous transport of EDTA ionic species and hydroxyl ions through an anion-exchange membrane for electrodialysis applications. J Electroanal Chem (Lausanne) 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jelechem.2020.114782] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Butylskii D, Skolotneva E, Mareev S, Gorobchenko A, Urtenov M, Nikonenko V. Examination of the equations for calculation of chronopotentiometric transition time in membrane systems. Electrochim Acta 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2020.136595] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Effect of Surface Inhomogeneity of Ion-Exchange Membranes on the Mass Transfer Efficiency in Pulsed Electric Field Modes. MEMBRANES 2020; 10:membranes10030040. [PMID: 32168842 PMCID: PMC7143503 DOI: 10.3390/membranes10030040] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/19/2020] [Revised: 03/05/2020] [Accepted: 03/09/2020] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Despite the growing interest in pulsed electric field modes in membrane separation processes, there are currently not many works devoted to studying the effect of the surface properties and composition of ion-exchange membranes on their efficiency in these modes. In this paper, we have shown the effect of increasing mass transfer using different kinds of ion-exchange membranes (heterogeneous and homogeneous with smooth, undulated, and rough surfaces) during electrodialysis in the pulsed electric field modes at underlimiting and overlimiting currents. It was found that the maximum increment in the average current is achieved when the average potential corresponds to the right-hand edge of the limiting current plateau of the voltammetric curve, i.e., at the maximum resistance of the system in the DC mode. For the first time, the development of electroconvective vortices was visualized in pulsed electric field modes and it was experimentally shown that even at relatively low frequencies, a non-uniform concentration field is preserved at the time of a pause, which stimulates the rapid development of electroconvection when pulses are switched on again. In the case of relatively high pulse frequencies, the electroconvective vortices formed during a pulse lapse do not completely decay during a pause; they only slightly decrease in size.
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Pismenskaya ND, Mareev SA, Pokhidnya EV, Larchet C, Dammak L, Nikonenko VV. Effect of Surface Modification of Heterogeneous Anion-Exchange Membranes on the Intensity of Electroconvection at Their Surfaces. RUSS J ELECTROCHEM+ 2020. [DOI: 10.1134/s1023193519120139] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Martí-Calatayud M, Evdochenko E, Bär J, García-Gabaldón M, Wessling M, Pérez-Herranz V. Tracking homogeneous reactions during electrodialysis of organic acids via EIS. J Memb Sci 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2019.117592] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Zyryanova S, Mareev S, Gil V, Korzhova E, Pismenskaya N, Sarapulova V, Rybalkina O, Boyko E, Larchet C, Dammak L, Nikonenko V. How Electrical Heterogeneity Parameters of Ion-Exchange Membrane Surface Affect the Mass Transfer and Water Splitting Rate in Electrodialysis. Int J Mol Sci 2020; 21:ijms21030973. [PMID: 32024103 PMCID: PMC7037469 DOI: 10.3390/ijms21030973] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/26/2019] [Revised: 01/29/2020] [Accepted: 01/30/2020] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Electrodialysis (ED) has been demonstrated as an effective membrane method for desalination, concentration, and separation. Electroconvection (EC) is a phenomenon which can essentially increase the mass transfer rate and reduce the undesirable water splitting effect. Efforts by a number of researchers are ongoing to create conditions for developing EC, in particular, through the formation of electrical heterogeneity on the membrane surface. We attempt, for the first time, to optimize the parameters of surface electrical heterogeneity for ion-exchange membranes used in a laboratory ED cell. Thirteen different patterns on the surface of two Neosepta anion-exchange membranes, AMX and AMX-Sb, were tested. Low-conductive fluoropolymer spots were formed on the membrane surface using the electrospinning technique. Spots in the form of squares, rectangles, and circles with different sizes and distances between them were applied. We found that the spots' shape did not have a visible effect. The best effect, i.e., the maximum mass transfer rate and the minimum water splitting rate, was found when the spots' size was close to that of the diffusion layer thickness, δ (about 250 μm in the experimental conditions), and the distance between the spots was slightly larger than δ, such that the fraction of the screened surface was about 20%.
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- Svetlana Zyryanova
- Department of Physical Chemistry, Kuban State University, 149 Stavropolskaya st., 350040 Krasnodar, Russia; (S.Z.); (S.M.); (V.G.); (N.P.); (V.S.); (O.R.); (E.B.)
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- Department of Physical Chemistry, Kuban State University, 149 Stavropolskaya st., 350040 Krasnodar, Russia; (S.Z.); (S.M.); (V.G.); (N.P.); (V.S.); (O.R.); (E.B.)
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- Department of Physical Chemistry, Kuban State University, 149 Stavropolskaya st., 350040 Krasnodar, Russia; (S.Z.); (S.M.); (V.G.); (N.P.); (V.S.); (O.R.); (E.B.)
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- Institut UTINAM (UMR CNRS 6213), Université de Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, 16 Route de Gray, 25030 Besançon CEDEX, France;
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- Department of Physical Chemistry, Kuban State University, 149 Stavropolskaya st., 350040 Krasnodar, Russia; (S.Z.); (S.M.); (V.G.); (N.P.); (V.S.); (O.R.); (E.B.)
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- Department of Physical Chemistry, Kuban State University, 149 Stavropolskaya st., 350040 Krasnodar, Russia; (S.Z.); (S.M.); (V.G.); (N.P.); (V.S.); (O.R.); (E.B.)
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- Department of Physical Chemistry, Kuban State University, 149 Stavropolskaya st., 350040 Krasnodar, Russia; (S.Z.); (S.M.); (V.G.); (N.P.); (V.S.); (O.R.); (E.B.)
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- Department of Physical Chemistry, Kuban State University, 149 Stavropolskaya st., 350040 Krasnodar, Russia; (S.Z.); (S.M.); (V.G.); (N.P.); (V.S.); (O.R.); (E.B.)
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- Institut de Chimie et des Matériaux Paris-Est, UMR7182 CNRS–Université Paris-Est, 2 Rue Henri Dunant, 94320 Thiais, France; (C.L.); (L.D.)
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- Institut de Chimie et des Matériaux Paris-Est, UMR7182 CNRS–Université Paris-Est, 2 Rue Henri Dunant, 94320 Thiais, France; (C.L.); (L.D.)
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- Department of Physical Chemistry, Kuban State University, 149 Stavropolskaya st., 350040 Krasnodar, Russia; (S.Z.); (S.M.); (V.G.); (N.P.); (V.S.); (O.R.); (E.B.)
- Correspondence: ; Tel.: +7-918-414-5816
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Chlorine-free emission disposal of spent acid etchant in a three-compartment ceramic membrane reactor. Chin J Chem Eng 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cjche.2019.04.026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Vobecká L, Belloň T, Slouka Z. Behavior of Embedded Cation-Exchange Particles in a DC Electric Field. Int J Mol Sci 2019; 20:ijms20143579. [PMID: 31336637 PMCID: PMC6678748 DOI: 10.3390/ijms20143579] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/26/2019] [Revised: 07/17/2019] [Accepted: 07/21/2019] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Electrodialysis and electrodeionization are separation processes whose performance depends on the quality and properties of ion-exchange membranes. One of the features that largely affects these properties is heterogeneity of the membranes both on the macroscopic and microscopic level. Macroscopic heterogeneity is an intrinsic property of heterogeneous ion-exchange membranes. In these membranes, the functional ion-exchange component is dispersed in a non-conductive binder. The functional component is finely ground ion-exchange resin particles. The understanding of the effect of structure on the heterogeneous membrane properties and behavior is thus of utmost importance since it does not only affect the actual performance but also the cost and therefore competitiveness of the aforementioned separation processes. Here we study the electrokinetic behavior of cation-exchange resin particle systems with well-defined geometrical structure. This approach can be understood as a bottom up approach regarding the membrane preparation. We prepare a structured cation-exchange membrane by using its fundamental component, which is the ion exchange resin. We then perform an experimental study with four different experimental systems in which the number of used cation-exchange particles changes from 1 to 4. These systems are studied by means of basic electrochemical characterization measurements, such as measurement of current–voltage curves and direct optical observation of phenomena that occur at the interface between the ion-exchange system and the adjacent electrolyte. Our work aims at better understanding of the relation between the structure and the membrane properties and of how structure affects electrokinetic behavior of these systems.
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- Lucie Vobecká
- University of Chemistry and Technology Prague, Department of Chemical Engineering, Technická 3, Prague 16628, Czech Republic
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- University of Chemistry and Technology Prague, Department of Chemical Engineering, Technická 3, Prague 16628, Czech Republic
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- University of Chemistry and Technology Prague, Department of Chemical Engineering, Technická 3, Prague 16628, Czech Republic.
- University of West Bohemia, New Technologies-Research Centre, Univerzitní 8, Pilsen 30614, Czech Republic.
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The nature of two transition times on chronopotentiograms of heterogeneous ion exchange membranes: 2D modelling. J Memb Sci 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2018.12.087] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Modelling of Ion Transport in Electromembrane Systems: Impacts of Membrane Bulk and Surface Heterogeneity. APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL 2018. [DOI: 10.3390/app9010025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Artificial charged membranes, similar to the biological membranes, are self-assembled nanostructured materials constructed from macromolecules. The mutual interactions of parts of macromolecules leads to phase separation and appearance of microheterogeneities within the membrane bulk. On the other hand, these interactions also cause spontaneous microheterogeneity on the membrane surface, to which macroheterogeneous structures can be added at the stage of membrane fabrication. Membrane bulk and surface heterogeneity affect essentially the properties and membrane performance in the applications in the field of separation (water desalination, salt concentration, food processing and other), energy production (fuel cells, reverse electrodialysis), chlorine-alkaline electrolysis, medicine and other. We review the models describing ion transport in ion-exchange membranes and electromembrane systems with an emphasis on the role of micro- and macroheterogeneities in and on the membranes. Irreversible thermodynamics approach, “solution-diffusion” and “pore-flow” models, the multiphase models built within the effective-medium approach are examined as the tools for describing ion transport in the membranes. 2D and 3D models involving or not convective transport in electrodialysis cells are presented and analysed. Some examples are given when specially designed surface heterogeneity on the membrane surface results in enhancement of ion transport in intensive current electrodialysis.
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