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Analysis of the Rankine attraction term in an equation of state based on the London dispersion force
P. M. Biesheuvel
The attraction term in an equation of state for gases, , proposed by Rankine in 1854, is generally related to the London dispersion force via the equation for the second vi…
Extended Donnan model for ion partitioning in charged nanopores
R. Wang, M. Elimelech, P. M. Biesheuvel
Membranes consist of pores and the walls of these pores are often charged. In contact with an aqueous solution, the pores fill with water and ions migrate from solution into the po…
Analysis of concentration polarization in reverse osmosis and nanofiltration: zero-, one-, and two-dimensional models
P. M. Biesheuvel, S. Porada, B. Blankert +2
Reverse osmosis and nanofiltration are membrane-based methods that remove solutes from solvent, for instance they remove salts from water (desalination). In these methods, an appli…
General validity of the exponential law for the effect of concentration polarization in reverse osmosis in a stirred-cell geometry, including an activity correction for 1:1 salt solutions
P. M. Biesheuvel, S. Porada, I. Ryzhkov +1
Reverse osmosis (RO) is a method to desalinate water with membranes and an applied pressure. Very important in the theory of mass transport in RO is the concentration polarization…
Theory of expansion and compression of polymeric materials
P. M. Biesheuvel, H. Fan, M. Elimelech
We extend classical Flory-Rehner theory for the expansion and compression of porous materials such as cross-linked polymer networks. The theory includes volume exclusion, affinity…
Tutorial on the chemical potential of ions in water and porous materials: transport, isotherms, and electrical double layer theory
P. M. Biesheuvel
In this tutorial we discuss the chemical potential of ions in water (i.e., in a salt solution, in an electrolyte phase) and inside (charged) nanoporous materials such as porous mem…
A concise tutorial review of reverse osmosis and electrodialysis
P. M. Biesheuvel, S. Porada, L. Wang +3
Reverse osmosis (RO) and electrodialysis (ED) are the two most important membrane technologies for water desalination and treatment. Their modes of operation and transport mechanis…
Electrochemical removal of amphoteric ions
Amit N. Shocron, Eric N. Guyes, P. Maarten Biesheuvel +3
Several harmful or valuable ionic species present in sea, brackish and wastewaters are amphoteric, and thus their properties depend on the local water pH. Effective removal of thes…
Derivation of an extended Bjerrum equation for the activity coefficient of ions based on an analysis of Coulombic forces
P. M. Biesheuvel
The activity coefficient of ions in solution was proposed by Bjerrum (1916) to depend on the cube root of concentration, because of a good fit with data for low and moderate salt c…
Nernst-Planck transport theory for (reverse) electrodialysis: III. Optimal membrane thickness for enhanced process performance
M. Tedesco, H. V. M. Hamelers, P. M. Biesheuvel
The effect of the thickness of ion exchange membranes has been investigated for electrodialysis (ED) and reverse electrodialysis (RED), both experimentally and through theoretical…
Theory of Ion and Electron Transport Coupled with Biochemical Conversions in an Electroactive Biofilm
A. C. L. de Lichtervelde, A. ter Heijne, H. V. M. Hamelers +2
Bioelectrochemical systems are electrochemical cells that rely on conductive biofilms covering an electrode. We consider the example of a microbial fuel cell, and we derive a dynam…
Theory of ion and water transport in electron-conducting membrane pores with pH-dependent chemical charge
L. Zhang, P. M. Biesheuvel, I. I. Ryzhkov
In this work, we develop an extended uniform potential (UP) model for a membrane nanopore by including two different charging mechanisms of the pore walls, namely by electronic cha…
Electrostatic cooling at electrolyte-electrolyte junctions
S. Porada, H. V. M. Hamelers, P. M. Biesheuvel
Electrostatic cooling is known to occur in conductors and in porous electrodes in contact with aqueous electrolytes. Here we present for the first time evidence of electrostatic co…
Theory of water desalination with intercalation materials
K. Singh, H. J. M. Bouwmeester, L. C. P. M de Smet +2
We present porous electrode theory for capacitive deionization (CDI) with electrodes containing nanoparticles that consist of a redox-active intercalation material. A geometry of a…
The difference between Faradaic and non-Faradaic electrode processes
P. M. Biesheuvel, S. Porada, J. E. Dykstra
Both Faradaic and non-Faradaic processes can take place at an electrode. The difference between the two processes is clearly discussed in several classical sources, starting with G…
AC-Driven Electro-Osmotic Flow in Charged Nanopores
J. Catalano, P. M. Biesheuvel
In this paper we report the theory describing the electro-osmotic flow in charged nanopores with constant radius and charge density driven by alternating current. We solve the ion…
Performance Metrics for the Objective Assessment of Capacitive Deionization Systems
Steven A. Hawks, Ashwin Ramachandran, Slawomir Porada +5
In the growing field of capacitive deionization (CDI), a number of performance metrics have emerged to describe the desalination process. Unfortunately, the separation conditions u…
Capacitive Deionization -- defining a class of desalination technologies
P. M. Biesheuvel, M. Z. Bazant, R. D. Cusick +17
Over the past decade, capacitive deionization (CDI) has realized a surge in attention in the field of water desalination and can now be considered as an important technology class,…
Coulometry and Calorimetry of Electric Double Layer Formation in Porous Electrodes
Mathijs Janssen, Elian Griffioen, P. M. Biesheuvel +2
Coulometric measurements on salt-water-immersed nanoporous carbon electrodes reveal, at a fixed voltage, a charge decrease with increasing temperature. During far-out-of-equilibriu…
Theory of ion and water transport in reverse osmosis membranes
Y. S. Oren, P. M. Biesheuvel
We present theory for ion and water transport through reverse osmosis membranes based on a Maxwell-Stefan framework combined with hydrodynamic theory for the reduced motion of part…
Theory of expansion of porous carbon electrodes in aqueous solutions according to the Donnan model
P. M. Biesheuvel
The Donnan model describes the electric double layer structure inside carbon micropores and is an essential element of larger-scale models for capacitive porous carbon electrodes f…
A one-dimensional model for water desalination by flow-through electrode capacitive deionization
Eric N. Guyes, Amit N. Shocron, Anastasia Simanovski +2
Capacitive deionization (CDI) is a fast-emerging water desalination technology in which a small cell voltage of ~1 V across porous carbon electrodes removes salt from feedwaters vi…
Nickel Hexacyanoferrate Electrodes for Continuous Cation Intercalation Desalination of Brackish Water
S. Porada, A. Shrivastava, P. Bukowska +2
Using porous electrodes containing nickel hexacyanoferrate (NiHCF) nanoparticles, we construct and test a device for capacitive deionization in a two flow-channel device where the…
Analysis of ionic conductance of carbon nanotubes
P. M. Biesheuvel, M. Z. Bazant
We use space-charge (SC) theory (also called the capillary pore model) to describe the ionic conductance, , of charged carbon nanotubes (CNTs). Based on the reversible adsorptio…