Desalination via a new membrane capacitive deionization process utilizing flow-electrodes

• DOI: 10.1039/c3ee24443a
• Publication Date: 2013-03-04T22:39:55Z
• Authors: Sung-il Jeon; Hong-ran Park; Jeong-gu Yeo; SeungCheol Yang; Churl Hee Cho; Moon Hee Han; Dong Kook Kim
• Keywords: 01 natural sciences; 6. Clean water; 0104 chemical sciences

A capacitive deionization process utilizing flow-electrodes (FCDI) was designed and evaluated for use in seawater desalination. The FCDI cell exhibited excellent removal efficiency (95%) with respect to an aqueous NaCl solution (salt concentration: 32.1 g L−1), demonstrating that the FCDI process could effectively overcome the limitations of typical CDI processes.