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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 30, 2024
Filed:
Oct. 08, 2019
Robert Bosch Gmbh, Stuttgart, DE;
Mordechai C. Kornbluth, Brighton, MA (US);
Jonathan Mailoa, Cambridge, MA (US);
Soo Kim, Cambridge, MA (US);
Georgy Samsonidze, San Francisco, CA (US);
Boris Kozinsky, Waban, MA (US);
Saravanan Kuppan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Sondra Hellstrom, East Palo Alto, CA (US);
Nathan Craig, Burlingame, CA (US);
Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart, DE;
Abstract
A device for removing chloride-containing salts from water includes a container configured to contain saline water, a first electrode arranged in fluid communication with the saline water, and a power source. The first electrode includes a conversion material that is substantially insoluble in the saline water and has a composition that includes at least two or more of aluminum, chlorine, copper, iron, oxygen, and potassium. The composition varies over a range with respect to a quantity of chloride ions per formula unit. The power source supplies current to the first electrode in a first operating state so as to induce a reversible conversion reaction in which the conversion material bonds to the chloride ions in the saline water to generate a treated water solution. The conversion material dissociates the chloride ions therefrom into the saline water solution in a second operating state to generate a wastewater solution.