Electrodialysis for water desalination: A critical assessment of recent developments on process fundamentals, models and applications

A Campione, L Gurreri, M Ciofalo, G Micale… - Desalination, 2018 - Elsevier
The need for unconventional sources of fresh water is pushing a fast development of
desalination technologies, which proved to be able to face and solve the problem of water …

Salinity gradients for sustainable energy: primer, progress, and prospects

NY Yip, D Brogioli, HVM Hamelers… - … science & technology, 2016 - ACS Publications
Combining two solutions of different composition releases the Gibbs free energy of mixing.
By using engineered processes to control the mixing, chemical energy stored in salinity …

Potential ion exchange membranes and system performance in reverse electrodialysis for power generation: A review

JG Hong, B Zhang, S Glabman, N Uzal, X Dou… - Journal of Membrane …, 2015 - Elsevier
Reverse electrodialysis (RED) is an emerging membrane-based energy conversion process
used to extract electricity by mixing two water streams of different salinities. This technique …

Nernst-Planck transport theory for (reverse) electrodialysis: I. Effect of co-ion transport through the membranes

M Tedesco, HVM Hamelers, PM Biesheuvel - Journal of Membrane …, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract Electrodialysis (ED) and Reverse Electrodialysis (RED) are related technologies for
water desalination and energy conversion, both based on the selective transport of ions …

[HTML][HTML] A comprehensive multi-scale model for bipolar membrane electrodialysis (BMED)

A Culcasi, L Gurreri, A Cipollina, A Tamburini… - Chemical Engineering …, 2022 - Elsevier
Bipolar membrane electrodialysis (BMED) is a technology combining solute and solvent
dissociation to produce chemicals. In the recent decades, it has been typically studied for the …

Performance of the first reverse electrodialysis pilot plant for power production from saline waters and concentrated brines

M Tedesco, C Scalici, D Vaccari, A Cipollina… - Journal of Membrane …, 2016 - Elsevier
This work reports experimental data collected for the first time on a full-scale RED pilot plant
operated with natural streams in a real environment. The plant–located in the South of Italy …

Towards 1 kW power production in a reverse electrodialysis pilot plant with saline waters and concentrated brines

M Tedesco, A Cipollina, A Tamburini… - Journal of Membrane …, 2017 - Elsevier
Reverse electrodialysis (RED) is a promising technology to extract energy from salinity
gradients, especially in the areas where concentrated brine and saline waters are available …

Cation exchange membranes and process optimizations in electrodialysis for selective metal separation: a review

Ö Tekinalp, P Zimmermann, S Holdcroft, OS Burheim… - Membranes, 2023 - mdpi.com
The selective separation of metal species from various sources is highly desirable in
applications such as hydrometallurgy, water treatment, and energy production but also …

Reverse electrodialysis with saline waters and concentrated brines: A laboratory investigation towards technology scale-up

M Tedesco, E Brauns, A Cipollina, G Micale… - Journal of Membrane …, 2015 - Elsevier
The use of concentrated brines and brackish water as feed solutions in reverse
electrodialysis represents a valuable alternative to the use of river/sea water, allowing the …

Emerging electrochemical and membrane-based systems to convert low-grade heat to electricity

M Rahimi, AP Straub, F Zhang, X Zhu… - Energy & …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Low-grade heat from geothermal sources and industrial plants is a significant source of
sustainable power that has great potential to be converted to electricity. The two main …