Flow electrodes may enable large-scale sea water desalination
10-Apr-2013
- Korea, Republic of (South Korea)
The team, have developed flow electrodes from a suspended carbon material. Not only is this approach more energy efficient – it does not require a discharge step like conventional capacitive deionisation – but it can also be easily scaled-up simply by increasing the number of flow electrodes in the system.
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