Electrochemical methods for water purification, ion separations, and energy conversion

MA Alkhadra, X Su, ME Suss, H Tian, EN Guyes… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Agricultural development, extensive industrialization, and rapid growth of the global
population have inadvertently been accompanied by environmental pollution. Water …

Fluids and electrolytes under confinement in single-digit nanopores

NR Aluru, F Aydin, MZ Bazant, D Blankschtein… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Confined fluids and electrolyte solutions in nanopores exhibit rich and surprising physics
and chemistry that impact the mass transport and energy efficiency in many important …

Water transport in reverse osmosis membranes is governed by pore flow, not a solution-diffusion mechanism

L Wang, J He, M Heiranian, H Fan, L Song, Y Li… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
We performed nonequilibrium molecular dynamics (NEMD) simulations and solvent
permeation experiments to unravel the mechanism of water transport in reverse osmosis …

Electrodialysis for water desalination: A critical assessment of recent developments on process fundamentals, models and applications

A Campione, L Gurreri, M Ciofalo, G Micale… - Desalination, 2018 - Elsevier
The need for unconventional sources of fresh water is pushing a fast development of
desalination technologies, which proved to be able to face and solve the problem of water …

Stable Ti3C2Tx MXene–Boron Nitride Membranes with Low Internal Resistance for Enhanced Salinity Gradient Energy Harvesting

G Yang, D Liu, C Chen, Y Qian, Y Su, S Qin, L Zhang… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Extracting salinity gradient energy through a nanomembrane is an efficient way to obtain
clean and renewable energy. However, the membranes with undesirable properties, such …

[HTML][HTML] Tutorial review of reverse osmosis and electrodialysis

PM Biesheuvel, S Porada, M Elimelech… - Journal of Membrane …, 2022 - Elsevier
Reverse osmosis (RO) and electrodialysis (ED) are the two most important membrane
technologies for water desalination and treatment. Their desalination and transport …

Progress and prospects in reverse electrodialysis for salinity gradient energy conversion and storage

RA Tufa, S Pawlowski, J Veerman, K Bouzek… - Applied energy, 2018 - Elsevier
Salinity gradient energy is currently attracting growing attention among the scientific
community as a renewable energy source. In particular, Reverse Electrodialysis (RED) is …

Energy consumption of brackish water desalination: identifying the sweet spots for electrodialysis and reverse osmosis

SK Patel, PM Biesheuvel, M Elimelech - Acs Es&T Engineering, 2021 - ACS Publications
Though electrodialysis (ED) and reverse osmosis (RO) are both mature, proven
technologies for brackish water desalination, RO is currently utilized to desalinate over an …

Energy efficiency of electro-driven brackish water desalination: electrodialysis significantly outperforms membrane capacitive deionization

SK Patel, M Qin, WS Walker… - Environmental science & …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Electro-driven technologies are viewed as a potential alternative to the current state-of-the-
art technology, reverse osmosis, for the desalination of brackish waters. Capacitive …

[HTML][HTML] Transport mechanisms in electrodialysis: The effect on selective ion transport in multi-ionic solutions

S Ozkul, JJ Van Daal, NJM Kuipers… - Journal of Membrane …, 2023 - Elsevier
Water reuse is one of the possible solutions to prevent depletion of freshwater resources;
however, it is often limited by the accumulation of specific ions in the recirculating water. Ion …