Viability of Ion Concentration Polarization technology for creation of a portable desalination Unit

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D'Alessandro, Alexis(Alexis M.)
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering.
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Jongyoon Han.
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Abstract
Ion Concentration Polarization (ICP) is an emerging desalination technology developed by the Han Group of MIT Research Laboratory of Electronics. ICP desalination has significant benefits over conventional desalination technologies, and subsequently, may be well equipped for the creation of a portable desalination unit. Portable desalination units have applications in disaster relief and providing drinking water to remote regions of developing nations without established water infrastructure. In this thesis, the viability of a portable desalination unit based upon ICP is assessed. A number of different system modifications, both theoretical and experimental, are proposed to increase the propensity of ICP to meet the needs of such a portable system.
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Thesis: S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering, 2019
 
Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. "June 2019."
 
Includes bibliographical references (pages 45-47).
 
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2019
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https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/123424
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Mechanical Engineering.
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