Journal
WATER RESEARCH
Volume 155, Issue -, Pages 76-85Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2019.02.007
Keywords
Capacitive deionization; High water recovery; Improved thermodynamic efficiency; Water desalination; Variable flowrate operation
Funding
- Bio-X Bowes Fellowship of Stanford University, United States
- California Energy Commission, United States [ECP-16-014]
- US DOE by LLNL, United States [DE-AC52-07NA27344]
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Water recovery is a measure of the amount of treated water produced relative to the total amount of water processed through the system, and is an important performance metric for any desalination method. Conventional operating methods for desalination using capacitive deionization (CDI) have so far limited water recovery to be about 50%. To improve water recovery for CDI, we here introduce a new operating scheme based on a variable (in time) flow rate wherein a low flow rate during discharge is used to produce a brine volume which is significantly less than the volume of diluent produced. We demonstrate experimentally and study systematically this novel variable flowrate operating scheme in the framework of both constant current and constant voltage charge-discharge modes. We show that the variable flowrate operation can increase water recovery for CDI to very high values of similar to 90% and can improve thermodynamic efficiency by about 2- to 3-fold compared to conventional constant flowrate operation. Importantly, this is achieved with minimal performance reductions in salt removal, energy consumption, and volume throughput. Our work highlights that water recovery can be readily improved for CDI at very minimal additional cost using simple flow control schemes. (C) 2019 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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