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DESALINATION
Volume 147, Issue 1-3, Pages 387-392Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/S0011-9164(02)00614-8
Keywords
ion-exchange membranes; concentration polarization; competitive transport; space charge region; mathematical modeling
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A mathematical model of the competitive electro-transport of two counter-ions through an ion exchange membrane based on the Nernst-Planck and Poisson equations is developed. A three-layer system is considered: the membrane and two adjacent diffusion layers. Concentration profiles in the three layers, effective transport numbers as functions of the current and current-voltage characteristics are calculated. Deviation from the local electroneutrality in space charge region near the depleted solution/membrane interface is taken into account. It is shown that the space charge region grows with the voltage applied. However the fluxes of the competitive counter-ions at over-limiting currents are determined by their transfer through the electroneutral part of the depleted diffusion layer.
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