Periodic feedwater reversal and air sparging as antifouling strategies in reverse electrodialysis

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 3065-3073

  Vermaas, David A ^a,b   Kunteng, Damnearn ^c   Veerman, Joost ^c   Saakes, Michel ^a   Nijmeijer, Kitty ^b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^c REDstack BV   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR; SEAWATER;

ANTIFOULING STRATEGIES; ELECTRICAL CURRENT; ELECTRICITY PRODUCTION; HIGH POWER DENSITY; LARGE-SCALE APPLICATIONS; RENEWABLE ENERGIES; REVERSE ELECTRODIALYSIS; SELECTIVE MEMBRANES;

ELECTRODIALYSIS;

FRESH WATER; RIVER WATER; SEA WATER; ANION; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; BRINE; CARBON; COLLOID; HUMIC SUBSTANCE; INORGANIC SALT; WATER;

COLLOID; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; ELECTROKINESIS; MEMBRANE; PERIODICITY;

ARTICLE; BIOFOULING; CLEANING; COLLOID; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTRODIALYSIS; RENEWABLE ENERGY; REVERSE ELECTRODIALYSIS; SPARGING; AIR; ANALYSIS; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CHEMISTRY; DIALYSIS; ELECTRICITY; HUMIC SUBSTANCE; PRESSURE; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PROCEDURES; TEMPERATURE; TIME;

AIR; ANIONS; BIOFOULING; CARBON; COLLOIDS; DIALYSIS; ELECTRICITY; FRESH WATER; HUMIC SUBSTANCES; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; PRESSURE; SALTS; SEAWATER; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS; WATER;

EID: 84895558559     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es4045456     Document Type: Article

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