Abstract
Electrochemically mediated selective adsorption is an emerging electrosorption technique that utilizes Faradaically enhanced redox active electrodes, which can adsorb ions not only electrostatically, but also electrochemically. The superb selectivity (>100) of this technique enables selective removal of toxic or high-value target ions under low energy consumption. Here, we develop a general theoretical framework to describe the competitive electrosorption phenomena involving multiple ions and surface-bound redox species. The model couples diffusion, convection and electromigration with competitive surface adsorption reaction kinetics, consistently derived from non-equilibrium thermodynamics. To optimize the selective removal of the target ions, design criteria were derived analytically from physically relevant dimensionless groups and time scales, where the propagation of the target anion’s concentration front is the limiting step. Detailed computational studies are reported for three case studies that cover a wide range of inlet concentration ratios between the competing ions. And in all three cases, target anions in the electrosorption cell forms a self-sharpening reaction-diffusion wave front. Based on the model, a three-step stop-flow operation scheme with a pure stripping solution of target anions is proposed that optimizes the ion adsorption performance and increases the purity of the regeneration stream to almost 100%, which is beneficial for downstream processing.
Publisher
The Electrochemical Society
Subject
Materials Chemistry,Electrochemistry,Surfaces, Coatings and Films,Condensed Matter Physics,Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment,Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
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