Advances in efficient desalination technology of capacitive deionization for water recycling

Available freshwater resources are becoming harder to obtain due to climate change, population growth, industrial development, and water pollution. The main technologies in the field of wastewater desalination include reverse osmosis, electrodialysis, thermal distillation, and adsorption etc. Capaci...

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Published in:Journal of water reuse and desalination 2021-06, Vol.11 (2), p.189-200
Main Authors: Tong, Yuhao, Zhou, Shuang, Zhou, Jun, Zhang, Guanteng, Li, Xiaolin, Zhao, Chunxia, Liu, Pengyan
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adaptability
Adsorption
capacitive deionization
Carbon
Charged particles
Climate change
Cost analysis
Deionization
Desalination
Distillation
Distilling
Efficiency
Electrochemical desalination
Electrochemistry
Electrode materials
Electrodes
Electrodialysis
Energy consumption
Environmental impact
Freshwater
Freshwater resources
Graphene
Industrial development
Industrial pollution
Inland water environment
Manufacturing
Materials selection
Population growth
Pore size
reactor structure
Reverse osmosis
Scientific papers
Selectivity
Technology
Wastewater
Water desalting
Water pollution
water recycling
Water reuse
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Summary:Available freshwater resources are becoming harder to obtain due to climate change, population growth, industrial development, and water pollution. The main technologies in the field of wastewater desalination include reverse osmosis, electrodialysis, thermal distillation, and adsorption etc. Capacitive deionization technology (CDI) belongs to a novel electrochemical desalination technology with low energy consumption and low environmental impact, simple equipment structure and convenient operation. With the importance of wastewater desalination highlighted, some great technological progress of CDI has been made in electrode materials, reactor structure and the hybrid process. In this paper, the development of CDI technology was expounded from three aspects to achieve the goal of strong adaptability, low cost and strong adsorption capacity by analysis of the latest research papers. Corresponding improved methods of CDI are summarized to solve the main technology bottlenecks such as the inefficient and vulnerable electrode materials, low selectivity and unreasonable unit structure, and limitations of single CDI unit for promoting the continuous development of CDI technology.
ISSN:2220-1319
2709-6092
2408-9370
2709-6106
DOI:10.2166/wrd.2021.101