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ACS OMEGA
Volume 5, Issue 5, Pages 2097-2106Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.9b02330
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- Singapore National Research Foundation under its Environmental & Water Technologies Strategic Research Programme
- SUTD CGH collaboration research grant [T1HITF1803]
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Water softening is a relatively untapped area of research in capacitive deionization (CDI). In this work, we demonstrate how an asymmetric combination of oxidized and aminated carbon can be used for selective removal of divalent cations for water softening. We first show how higher electrosorption performances can be achieved in single-salt experiments involving NaCl, KCl, MgCl2, and CaCl2 before proceeding to multi-salt experiments using different combinations of the four salts. The salt combinations are chosen to investigate one of the three factors: (1) ionic mass, (2) ionic charge, or (3) concentration. We show how divalent selectivity can be achieved due to high local electrostatic attraction between negatively charged oxygen moieties and divalent cations. Additionally, an ion-exchange process between the oxidized carbon surface and cations can result in lower pH values, which prevent the precipitation of scale-forming ions.
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