Study on Efficient Operating Conditions for Bipolar Membrane Electrodialysis Using Different Ion Species and Anion-Exchange Membranes
Sadato Kikuchi, Souichiro Hirao, Shunya Kayakiri, Yuriko Kakihana, Mitsuru Higa · 2024
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Sadato Kikuchi and co-authors test working conditions for a membrane process in a 2024 study. The process uses paired membranes to split salt water into acid and base streams. Output depends heavily on which membrane and which salt the plant feeds in, and the best pairing was not clear.
The team compared two membrane types against table salt and a sulfate salt, tracking current efficiency and power use. With table salt, a proton blocking membrane won on both counts. With the sulfate salt, the standard membrane won instead, since cell voltage mattered more than proton leakage. The lesson is to match membrane and feed salt as a pair when designing such plants.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Sadato Kikuchi, Souichiro Hirao, Shunya Kayakiri, Yuriko Kakihana, Mitsuru Higa |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 26 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |