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Electro-capture of heavy metal ions with carbon cloth integrated microfluidic devices
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posted on 2018-04-03, 00:00 authored by F M Allioux, P Kapruwan, Nick MilneNick Milne, Lingxue KongLingxue Kong, J Fattaccioli, Y Chen, Ludovic DumeeA new multi-compartment microfluidic device was developed to simultaneously desalinate and recover valuable metal ions from aqueous streams mimicking metal plating and mining tailing wastewaters. Heavy and valuable metal ions including copper, zinc, nickel, silver and zinc/copper ionic mixtures were selectively transferred from the feed solution to a reduction chamber through ion-exchange membranes under the influence of an electrical field. A porous and conductive carbon cloth material was used as reduction platform, which led to improved desalination efficiencies, previously unachievable due to inevitable poisoning and degradation of the membranes at high current densities. The use of conductive carbon clothes enabled the recovery of the metal deposits, post reduction, through a simple electro-oxidation process. This novel microfluidic method, using ion-exchange materials as channel walls, has also the potential for the controlled decoration of materials with metal nanoparticle patterns and for the regeneration of rare earth trace contaminants by electro-sorption assisted electro-dialysis.
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Separation and purification technologyVolume
194Pagination
26 - 32Publisher
ElsevierLocation
Amsterdam, The NetherlandsPublisher DOI
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1383-5866eISSN
1873-3794Language
engPublication classification
C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journalCopyright notice
2017, Elsevier B.V.Usage metrics
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