Electrodialysis and electrodeionization separate ionic components from processed water solutions by applying a DC electric field on a stack of ion-exchange membranes. The ion separation indicates ionic concentration changes along the channels in the membrane modules. Simultaneously, concentration polarizat...

Accurately predicting battery behavior, while using low input data, is highly desirable in embedded simulation architectures like grid or integrated energy system analysis. Currently, the available vanadium redox flow battery (VRFB) models achieve highly accurate predictions of electrochemical behavior...

Electrodialysis is an electric-field-mediated process separating ions exploiting selective properties of ion-exchange membranes. The ion-exchange membranes create an ion-depleted zone in an electrolyte solution adjacent to the membrane under DC polarization. We constructed a microfluidic system that uses t...

Electrodialysis is an important electromembrane separation process anticipated to play a significant role in developing future technologies. It produces ion-depleted and ion-concentrated product streams, intrinsically suggesting the formation of spatial gradients of relevant quantities. These quantities affect ...

In this work, we propose an innovative hybrid flow battery using anthraquinone disulfonic acid (AQDS) based negolyte in an AQDS-oxygen fuel cell and AQDS-oxygen electrolyser as a discharging and charging devices, respectively. The performance of the system is studied under defined conditions...

Carbon-based nanostructured materials possess good electrochemical activity toward vanadium species employed in vanadium redox flow batteries (VRFB). However, fast screening and testing their electrochemical activity are challenging due to unreliable methods, depositing the nanomaterials onto solid current coll...

Electroconvection and gravitational convection are recognized as the primary mechanisms driving overlimiting currents in ion-exchange systems. Here, we use particle image velocimetry (PIV) to characterize the convection on a small piece of a commercially available heterogeneous cation-exchange membrane. We...

We adopted a method of electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) for the characterization of slug flow of two immiscible aqueous phases in a flow channel. The impedance response (both magnitude and phase shift) of the two-phase system is measured as a function of time at se...

Despite intense research in the field of aqueous organic redox flow batteries, low molecular stability of electroactive compounds limits further commercialization. Additionally, currently used methods typically cannot differentiate between individual capacity fade mechanisms, such as degradation of electroactiv...

The effect of membrane properties on the vanadium-oxygen fuel cell performance was studied on a series of commercially available ion exchange membranes of different thickness and ion exchange capacity by selected characterization techniques including electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (ohmic and c...

The effort of today’s society towards green, wasteless, and economic production technologies brings new challenges concerning the efficiency of chemical processes. Electromembrane separations are considered as one of the possible candidates in tackling the challenges mentioned above. They offer a ...

Redox-flow batteries, based on their particular ability to decouple power and energy, stand as prime candidates for costeffective stationary storage, particularly in the case of long discharges and long storage times. Integration of renewables and subsequent need for energy storage is promot...

Catalytic monolith filters with a honeycomb structure represent a key component of modern automotive exhaust gas aftertreatment systems. In this paper, we present and validate a multiscale modeling methodology for the prediction of filter pressure loss depending on the monolith channel geome...

Two different commercial carbon felt electrodes for vanadium redox flow battery, based on polyacrylonitrile and rayon, are tested and compared in order to evaluate the effect of felt compression on the battery performance in terms of cell polarization and pressure drop through the ...

Electrochemical and electrokinetic behavior of ion-exchange systems as a result of electrostatic interactions between the fixed charge and the ionic species present in the electrolyte can significantly vary with the type of electrolyte and the membrane composition. In this paper, we studied&...

In this paper we explore the impact of catalyst distribution on the filtration efficiency of automotive exhaust gas filters (GPF and DPF). The structure of filter wall is reconstructed from 3D X-ray tomography (XRT), including spatial distribution of catalytic material. The filtration p...

Ion exchange membranes and ion exchange resin particles are widely used in electro-membrane separation processes such as electrodeionization and electrodialysis. The internal structure of these ion exchange systems implicitly determines their properties, which, in turn, strongly affect the efficiency ...

The understanding of triboelectric charging of industrially important powders can help in avoiding or controlling the particle agglomeration and wall sheeting. We developed a new experimental approach to study both same material particle-particle (P-P) and different-material particle-wall (P-W) charging&#x...

Polarization of the ion-selective systems results in the formation of ion-depleted and ion-concentrated zones in the electrolyte layers adjacent to the system. One can employ ion-concentration polarization for the removal of chargedlarge molecules and small ions from the flowing liquid. Removal&#...

We propose a complex 4-point method for characterization of flow batteries. The distribution of ohmic and faradaic losses within a single-cell is evaluated from electrochemical impedance spectra and load curves of positive and negative half-cells measured with platinum wire pseudo-reference elect...