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Energy Efficiency of Electro-Driven Brackish Water Desalination: Electrodialysis Significantly Outperforms Membrane Capacitive Deionization
Abstract
Electro-driven technologies are viewed as a potential alternative to the current state-of-the-art technology, reverse osmosis, for the desalination of brackish waters. Capacitive deionization (CDI), based on the principle of electrosorption, has been intensively researched under the premise of being energy efficient. However, electrodialysis (ED), despite being a more mature electro-driven technology, has yet to be extensively compared to CDI in terms of energetic performance. In this study, we utilize Nernst–Planck based models for continuous flow ED and constant-current membrane capacitive deionization (MCDI) to systematically evaluate the energy consumption of the two processes. By ensuring equivalently sized ED and MCDI systemsin addition to using the same feed salinity, salt removal, water recovery, and productivity across the two technologiesenergy consumption is appropriately compared. We find that ED consumes less energy (has higher energy efficiency) than MCDI for all investigated conditions. Notably, our results indicate that the performance gap between ED and MCDI is substantial for typical brackish water desalination conditions (e.g., 3 g L–1 feed salinity, 0.5 g L–1 product water, 80% water recovery, and 15 L m–2 h–1 productivity), with the energy efficiency of ED often exceeding 30% and being nearly an order of magnitude greater than MCDI. We provide further insights into the inherent limitations of each technology by comparing their respective components of energy consumption, and explain why MCDI is unable ...
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Membrane Capacitive Deionization Electrodialysis Feed Salinity Water Recovery Brackish Water Capacitive Deionization Salt Removal Reverse Osmosis Higher Energy Efficiency Feed Water Recovery
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