Capacitive Conveyor-Belt Desalination

Abstract

Described herein is a novel deionization process for seawater desalination: Seawater is contained in—or streams through—a semi-rectangular ionizing-chamber, two of its facing walls are wide electrostatic charged belts that continuously move through this chamber in a loop. The ions within the seawater separate under the force of the electrostatic field, the anions adhere to the anode belt and move with it, while the cations adhere to the cathode belt and move with it. These belts unload the adhered ions in a separate compartment from which the seawater, now at higher salt concentration, is discharged; consequently, the seawater left in the first compartment loses salt (ions) as the process continues, i.e., become desalinized.

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