Wednesday, 3 October 2018: 10:20
Universal 3 (Expo Center)
Nearly a decade ago, one of us (MAA) co-authored a review article on the status of capacitive deionization (CDI) for the desalination of saline waters. Since this time, there has been an exponential explosion of research in CDI over this last decade. At the time of writing our first manuscript, the intention was to focus upon the ability of CDI to compete with well accepted and proven desalination technologies and in particular with reverse osmosis (RO). While this still remains one of the forces driving interest in CDI, it is not the only one! Indeed, other applications perhaps more lucrative exist for this technology This presentation examines a bit o history of CDI but focuses on newer reactor designs and as well the future of CDI with respect to alternative applications other than RO.