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Capacitive Deionisation: an introduction

By admin September 22, 2014 5:28 pm

Capacitive deionisation is a desalting technology used for removing dissolved ions from feed waters by enabling adsorption to oppositely charged carbon electrodes in presence of an applied potential difference
 The past few decades have seen a significant growth in the efforts expended at developing low cost and energy efficient technologies for removal of dissolved salts from a variety of streams such as industrial waste water, brackish water as well as sea water. Prominently adopted ones among these technologies include reverse osmosis (RO), membrane distillation (MD), multi stage flash distillation (MSF), electro dialysis/reversal (ED/EDR), ion exchange media, and most recently, capacitive deionisation, forward osmosis (FO) and pressure retarded osmosis (PRO).
The applications facilitated by these technologies range from industrial use (cooling tower blow down recycle, boiler water feed, process water reuse, etc.), to brackish water desalination and more importantly sea water desalination. Among these technologies, RO and EDR have been widely adopted as efficient processes for brackish water desalination, even though the extent of applicability of these technologies to sea water desalination is limited by the operational challenges such as high energy consumption, chemical costs pertaining to membrane cleaning and replacement. In such a scenario, capacitive deionisation (CDI) offers an efficient alternative capable of achieving high salt removal efficiency at lower energy consumption and much higher recovery and yet without the conventional challenges such as membrane fouling/scaling, heavy chemical CIP requirements, and membrane replacement.
Technology overviewCapacitive deionisation is a desalting technology used for removing dissolved ions from feed waters by enabling adsorption to oppositely electrodes in presence of an applied potential difference. The adsorbed ions are then recovered in a highly concentrated stream by reversing the polarity of the electrodes in the subsequent regeneration step as shown in figure 2. The schematic of CDI cell operation is shown in figure 1.
Advantages of CDIEach of the conventional desalination technologies such as RO, ED, MSF, MEF, etc. suffer from several draw backs such as high energy consumption either due to high pressure requirements (RO) or high heat requirements (evaporation and distillation). In addition, RO suffers from high scaling potential that necessitates frequent CIP procedures leading to high operating costs. Extensive pre-treatment steps such as UF, anti-scalant dosage, etc. are also required to maintain sufficient quality of the RO feed so as to minimize scaling as well as membrane fouling that can otherwise lead to irreversible damage.

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