Reducing power losses caused by ionic shortcut currents in reverse electrodialysis stacks by a validated model

Journal of Membrane Science

Volumn 310, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 418-430

  Veerman, J ^a   Post, J W ^a,c   Saakes, M ^a   Metz, S J ^a   Harmsen, G J ^b  

^a EUROPEAN CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE FOR SUSTAINABLE WATER TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Current leakage; Electrodialysis; Ionic shortcut currents; Modeling; Optimization; Parasitic currents; Reverse electrodialysis; Stack design

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

CURRENT LEAKAGE; IONIC SHORTCUT CURRENTS; PARASITIC CURRENTS; REVERSE ELECTRODIALYSIS; STACK DESIGN;

ELECTRODIALYSIS;

COMPUTATION THEORY; ELECTRODIALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

ARTICLE; ELECTRODIALYSIS; ION CURRENT; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE ELECTRODIALYSIS;

EID: 38649112271     PISSN: 03767388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2007.11.032     Document Type: Article

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