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dc.contributor.authorNayar, Kishor Govind
dc.contributor.authorSundararaman, Prithiviraj
dc.contributor.authorSchacherl, Jeffrey Dowe
dc.contributor.authorO'Connor, Catherine Leber
dc.contributor.authorHeath, Michael Lindsey
dc.contributor.authorOrozco Gabriel, Mario
dc.contributor.authorWright, Natasha Catherine
dc.contributor.authorWinter, Amos G.
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-16T14:51:44Z
dc.date.available2017-05-16T14:51:44Z
dc.date.issued2015-08
dc.identifier.isbn978-0-7918-5707-6
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/109101
dc.description.abstractDesalination of high salinity water is an effective way of improving the aesthetic quality of drinking water and has been demonstrated to be a characteristic valued by consumers. Across India, 60% of the groundwater, the primary water source for millions, is brackish or contains a high salt content with total dissolved solids (TDS) ranging from 500 parts per million (ppm) to 3,000ppm. The government does not provide sufficient desalination treatment before the water reaches the tap of a consumer. Therefore consumers have turned to in-home desalination. However, current products are either expensive or have low recovery, product water output per untreated feed water, (∼30%) wasting water resources. Electrodialysis (ED) is a promising technology that desalinates water while maintaining higher recovery (up to 95%) compared to existing consumer reverse osmosis (RO) products. This paper first explores the in-home desalination market to determine critical design requirements for an in-home ED system. A model was then used to evaluate and optimize the performance of an ED stack at this scale and designated salinity range. Additionally, testing was conducted in order to validate the model and demonstrate feasibility. Finally, cost estimates of the proposed in-home ED system and product design concept are presented. The results of this work identified a system design that provides consumers with up to 80% recovery of feed water with cost and size competitive to currently available in-home RO products.en_US
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherAmerican Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)en_US
dc.relation.isversionofhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1115/DETC2015-47613en_US
dc.rightsArticle is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use.en_US
dc.sourceAmerican Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)en_US
dc.titleFeasibility Study of an Electrodialysis System for In-Home Water Desalination and Purification in Urban Indiaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.identifier.citationNayar, Kishor G. et al. “Feasibility Study of an Electrodialysis System for In-Home Water Desalination and Purification in Urban India.” ASME 2015 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, 2-5 August, 2015, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, ASME, 2015. © 2015 by ASMEen_US
dc.contributor.departmentMassachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineeringen_US
dc.contributor.mitauthorNayar, Kishor Govind
dc.contributor.mitauthorSundararaman, Prithiviraj
dc.contributor.mitauthorSchacherl, Jeffrey Dowe
dc.contributor.mitauthorO'Connor, Catherine Leber
dc.contributor.mitauthorHeath, Michael Lindsey
dc.contributor.mitauthorOrozco Gabriel, Mario
dc.contributor.mitauthorWright, Natasha Catherine
dc.contributor.mitauthorWinter, Amos G.
dc.relation.journalProceedings of ASME 2015 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conferenceen_US
dc.eprint.versionFinal published versionen_US
dc.type.urihttp://purl.org/eprint/type/ConferencePaperen_US
eprint.statushttp://purl.org/eprint/status/NonPeerRevieweden_US
dspace.orderedauthorsNayar, Kishor G.; Sundararaman, Prithiviraj; Schacherl, Jeffrey D.; O’Connor, Catherine L.; Heath, Michael L.; Orozco Gabriel, Mario; Wright, Natasha C.; Winter, Amos G.en_US
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dc.identifier.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-0988-1057
dc.identifier.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-3084-6977
dc.identifier.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-2340-051X
dc.identifier.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-5248-986X
dc.identifier.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-6637-1782
dc.identifier.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-9667-9158
dc.identifier.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-3687-188X
dc.identifier.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-4151-0889
mit.licensePUBLISHER_POLICYen_US


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