Treating Irrigation Water Using High-Performance Membranes for Monovalent Selective Electrodialysis
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Ahdab, Yvana Daniella
Rehman, Danyal
Schücking, Georg
Barbosa, Maria
Lienhard, John H
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September 2020
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ACS ES&T Water
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American Chemical Society (ACS)
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Ahdab, Yvana D. et al. "Treating Irrigation Water Using High-Performance Membranes for Monovalent Selective Electrodialysis." ACS ES&T Water (September 2020): doi.org/10.1021/acsestwater.0c00012 © 2020 American Chemical Society
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Abstract
The most common desalination technology for treating brackish irrigation water is reverse osmosis (RO). RO yields product waters low in monovalent ions that are harmful to crops (Na⁺ and Cl⁻) and in divalent ions that encourage crop growth (Ca²⁺, Mg²⁺, and SO₄²⁻). Fertilizer or divalent-rich brackish water must be mixed with the desalinated water to reintroduce these nutrients. Monovalent selective electrodialysis (MSED) provides an alternative to RO that selectively extracts monovalent ions while retaining divalent ions. This paper investigates the monovalent selectivity and potential of the new cost-effective Fujifilm MSED membranes to treat brackish source water in greenhouses, with a comparison to the widely used Neosepta MSED membranes. Thirteen groundwater compositions serve as feedwater to an MSED experimental setup to characterize membrane selectivity, ion transport, limiting current, and membrane resistance. The Fujifilm membranes demonstrate notable selectivity for all compositions. On average, they remove six sodium ions, compared to Neosepta’s four, for every calcium ion and 13 sodium ions, compared to Neosepta’s seven, for every magnesium ion, while their bench-scale cost is 68% lower than that of the Neosepta membranes. The Fujifilm selectivity values are used to calculate annual fertilizer savings of MSED relative to RO, which average $4995/ha for 6000 brackish groundwaters across the United States.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering
Rohsenow Kendall Heat Transfer Laboratory (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
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