Journal
LANGMUIR
Volume 29, Issue 52, Pages 16167-16177Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/la4040547
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- Weatherford International through the MIT Energy Initiative
- USA-Israel Binational Science Foundation [2010199]
- Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF)
- Ministry of Education [2012R1A6A3A03039224]
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Most electrochemical processes, such as electrodialysis, are limited by diffusion, but in porous media, surface conduction and electroosmotic flow also contribute to ionic flux. In this article, we report experimental evidence for surface-driven overlimiting current (faster than diffusion) and deionization shocks (propagating salt removal) in a porous medium. The apparatus consists of a silica glass frit (1 mm thick with a 500 nm mean pore size) in an aqueous electrolyte (CuSO4 or AgNO3) passing ionic current from a reservoir to a cation-selective membrane (Nafion). The current voltage relation of the whole system is consistent with a proposed theory based on the electroosmotic flow mechanism over a broad range of reservoir salt concentrations (0.1 mM to 1.0 M) after accounting for (Cu) electrode polarization and pH-regulated silica charge. Above the limiting current, deionized water (approximate to 10 mu M) can be continuously extracted from the fit, which implies the existence of a stable shock propagating against the flow, bordering a depleted region that extends more than 0.5 mm across the outlet. The results suggest the feasibility of shock electrodialysis as a new approach to water desalination and other electrochemical separations.
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