Brackish water treatment by Capacitive Electro Dialysis (CED) For drinking and irrigation purposes in Jericho
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2019
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Mariam Dabbous
Muna Dalaa
Alaa Jadi
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Water is one of the world's most valuable natural resources. It is important for all living organisms, most ecological systems human health, food production, and economic development. There is an urgent need to find a way to provide people in developing countries a new and suitable technology that can be placed in their households to have clean and safe drinking water.
The traditional water purification methods include boiling, filtration, sedimentation, solar radiation in addition to Reverse Osmosis (RO), have many disadvantages including, but not limited to high brine volumes waste, high cost, and some of them are not suitable for brackish water, in addition to removal of almost all ions in RO. So, Capacitive Electro Dialysis (CED) method is used that overcome all those disadvantages.
A CED pilot set up was used for the experimentation. Experiments included efficiency, performance and durability of the system for the treatment of brackish water from Jericho.
CED pilot scale system consumes around 0.5 kwh per treated m3, and this is considerable reduction in comparison with other desalination methods. Providing solar energy available in Jericho. The proposed system has a competitive advantage for practical use.