Title

Two-compartment bipolar membrane electrodialysis for splitting of sodium formate into formic acid and sodium hydroxide: Modelling

Author

JESUS SALVADOR JAIME FERRER

Access level

Open Access

License

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0

Subjects

Membranas (Tecnología) - (LEMD) Electrodiálisis - (LEMD) BIOLOGÍA Y QUÍMICA - (CTI) QUÍMICA - (CTI) QUÍMICA FÍSICA - (CTI) FENÓMENOS DE MEMBRANA - (CTI) FENÓMENOS DE MEMBRANA - (CTI)

Summary or description

The aim of this work is to model the two-compartment bipolar membrane electrodialysis for organic salts acidification. The salt studied is sodium formate which splits into formic acid and sodium hydroxide thanks to water splitting by bipolar membrane. The contamination of sodium hydroxide by formate ion is due to diffusion of molecular formic acid through the bipolar membrane and to leakage of formate ion through the same membrane under the applied current. The cation-exchange membrane does not participate to contamination of sodium hydroxide. But the leakage of hydroxide ion through the cation-exchange membrane is the major factor that influences the current efficiency of electrodialysis. The average current efficiency decreases with time principally because the sodium hydroxide concentration increases. The development of a membrane with limited hydroxide leakage is desirable.

Publish date

2013

Publication type

Article

Publication version

Published Version

Information Resource

http://ciatec.repositorioinstitucional.mx/jspui/handle/1019/196

Format

application/pdf

Language

English

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Source repository

Repositorio Institucional CIATEC

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