Current distribution along electrodialysis stacks and its influence on the current-voltage curve: behaviour from near-zero current to limiting plateau

Filingeri, Antonia; Gurreri, Luigi; Ciofalo, Michele; Cipollina, Andrea; Tamburini, Alessandro; Micale, Giorgio Domenico Maria

doi:10.1016/j.desal.2023.116541

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“…The presence of a limiting current is a phenomenon that intrinsically limits the operational window of ED, as it restricts the 'cost-effective' operational range (i.e. energy consumption) of the technology, especially in relatively long stacks [192]. It is foreseen that future ED applications will be 'process-tailored' , i.e.…”

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2024 roadmap on membrane desalination technology at the water-energy nexus

Politano,

Al-Juboori,

Alnajdi

et al. 2024

J. Phys. Energy

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Water and energy are two strategic drivers of sustainable development, intimately interlaced and vital for a secure future of humanity. Given that water resources are limited, whereas global population and energy demand are exponentially growing, the competitive balance between these resources, referred to as the water-energy nexus – is receiving renewed focus.The desalination industry alleviates water stress by producing freshwater from saline sources, such as seawater, brackish or groundwater. Since the last decade, the market has been dominated by membrane desalination technology, offering significative advantages over thermal processes, such as lower energy demand, easy process control and scale-up, modularity for flexible productivity, and feasibility of synergic integration of different membrane operations. The exciting new frontier of sustainable mining of seawater concentrates is accelerating the appearance of a plethora of innovative membrane materials and methods for brine dehydration and selective extraction of trace ions, although under the sword of Damocles represented by cost feasibility for reliable commercial application. On the other hand, among several emerging technologies, reverse electrodialysis (SGP-RED) was already proven capable – at least at the kW scale–of turning the chemical potential difference between river water, brackish water, and seawater into electrical energy. Efforts to develop a next generation of Ion Exchange Membranes exhibiting high perm-selectivity (especially toward monovalent ions) and low electrical resistance, to improve system engineering and to optimize operational conditions, pursue the goal of enhancing the low power density so far achievable (in the order of a few W per m2).This Roadmap takes the form of a series of short contributions written independently by worldwide experts in the topic. Collectively, such contributions provide a comprehensive picture of the current state of the art in membrane science and technology at the water-energy nexus, and how it is expected to develop in the future

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