Based on a porous carbon electrode, capacitive deionization (CDI) is a promising desalination technology in which ions are harvested and stored in an electrical double layer.
The
demand for fresh water has been increasing, caused by the growing
population and industrialization throughout the world. In this study,
we report a capacitive-based desalination system using Prussian blue
materials in a rocking chair desalination battery, which is composed
of sodium nickel hexacyanoferrate (NaNiHCF) and sodium iron HCF (NaFeHCF)
electrodes. In this system, ions are removed not only by charging
steps but also by discharging steps, and it is possible to treat actual
seawater with this system because the Prussian blue material has a
high charge capacity with a reversible reaction of alkaline cations.
Here, we demonstrate a rocking chair desalination battery to desalt
seawater, and the results show that this system has a high desalination
capacity (59.9 mg/g) with efficient energy consumption (0.34 Wh/L
for 40% Na ion removal efficiency).
The demand for lithium has greatly increased with the rapid development of rechargeable batteries. Currently, the main lithium resource is brine lakes, but the conventional lithium recovery process is time consuming, inefficient, and environmentally harmful. Rechargeable batteries have been recently used for lithium recovery, and consist of lithium iron phosphate as a cathode. These batteries feature promising selectivity between lithium and sodium, but they suffer from severe interference from coexisting magnesium ions, an essential component of brine, which has prompted further study. This study reports on a highly selective and energy-efficient lithium recovery system using a rechargeable battery that consists of a λ-MnO2 positive electrode and a chloride-capturing negative electrode. This system can be used to recover lithium from brine even in the presence of magnesium ions as well as other dissolved cations. In addition, lithium recovery from simulated brine is successfully demonstrated, consuming 1.0 W h per 1 mole of lithium recovered, using water similar to that from the artificial brine, which contains various cations (mole ratio: Na/Li ≈ 15.7, K/Li ≈ 2.2, Mg/Li ≈ 1.9).
The development of tiny, low-cost, low-power and multifunctional sensor nodes equipped with sensing, data processing, and communicating components, have been made possible by the recent advances in micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) technology. Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) assume a collection of such tiny sensing devices connected wirelessly and which are used to observe and monitor a variety of phenomena in the real physical world. Many applications based on these WSNs assume local clocks at each sensor node that need to be synchronized to a common notion of time. This paper reviews the existing clock synchronization protocols for WSNs and the methods of estimating clock offset and clock skew in the most representative clock synchronization protocols for WSNs.
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