Method and apparatus for preventing scaling in electrodeionizati

Details Method and apparatus for preventing scaling in electrodeionizati Method and apparatus for preventing scaling in electrodeionizati

1998-10-16

2000-11-21

Phasge, Arun S.

Chemistry: electrical and wave energy

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Electrophoresis or electro-osmosis processes and electrolyte...

204525, 204533, 204536, 204632, B01D 6148

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061497886

ABSTRACT:
A method and apparatus is provided for inhibiting scaling in an electrodeionization system and, more particularly, for increasing tolerance to hardness in the feed water to an electrodeionization unit by inhibiting precipitation of scale-forming metallic cations contained in the feed water and thereby increasing efficiencies of the electrodeionization system. Water to be purified is passed through an electrodeionization unit in which the flow in the diluting compartment is countercurrent to the flow in the concentrating compartment. This is to impede the migration of scale-forming metallic cations from the diluting compartment, through the cation exchange membrane, into the concentrating compartment and towards the concentrating compartment side of the anion exchange membrane, thereby preventing scale formation on the anion exchange membrane. The electrodeionization unit may be further modified by dividing the concentrating compartments into first and second compartments by a porous diaphragm or ion-conducting membrane. The porous diaphragm or ion-conducting membrane effectively eliminates convective transport of scale-forming metallic cations from the cation exchange membrane side of the concentrating compartment to the anion exchange membrane side of the concentrating compartment, thereby inhibiting scale formation on the anion exchange membrane.

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patent: 4925541 (1990-05-01), Giuffrida et al.
patent: 5116509 (1992-05-01), White
Studies on polarity reversal with continuous deionization--Desalination, 86 (1992) by Yoram Oren and Yair Egozy (pp. 155-171).

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