I-Corps: An Electrochemical Desalination Cell

这个创新团队项目将使拟议的团队能够进行重点研究，以帮助将拟议的电化学脱盐电池（EDC）推向市场。EDC淡化盐水废物，同时产生电力，合成有价值的无机化学品，并消耗二氧化碳。 I-Corps PI以前的NSF奖项调查了能量转换设备中纳米材料的结构属性关系。通过前期的研究，完成了EDC的首次演示，证明了该装置的热力学可行性。该项目的主要研究目标是实现比最初原型高一个数量级的功率密度和脱盐率。 如果成功的话，该技术有可能通过工业生态方法创造一个可持续的业务，将能源生产，盐水处理和化学合成结合到一个单一的综合过程中。

This Innovation Corps project will enable focused research by the proposed team to help bring the proposed Electrochemical Desalination Cell (EDC) to the market. EDC desalinates brine waste while producing electricity, synthesizing valuable inorganic chemicals, and consuming carbon dioxide. The I-Corps PI's previous NSF awards investigate the structure property relationships of nanomaterials in energy conversion devices. The first demonstration of the EDC was complete in through previous research, and proved the thermodynamic feasibility of the device. The primary research goal for this project is to achieve power densities and desalination rates an order of magnitude higher than that obtained from the initial prototype. If successful, the proposed technology has the potential to create a sustainable business through an industrial ecological approach that combines energy generation, brine treatment and chemical synthesis into a single, integrated process.