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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 28, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2007
Applicants:
Nam P. Suh, Sudbury, MA (US);
Sang-gook Kim, Wayland, MA (US);
Taesik Lee, Cambridge, MA (US);
Ishan Barman, Cambridge, MA (US);
Gyunyoung Heo, Suwon-si, KR;
Inventors:
Nam P. Suh, Sudbury, MA (US);
Sang-Gook Kim, Wayland, MA (US);
Taesik Lee, Cambridge, MA (US);
Ishan Barman, Cambridge, MA (US);
Gyunyoung Heo, Suwon-si, KR;
Assignee:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C02F 1/46 (2006.01); C02F 1/469 (2006.01); C02F 1/461 (2006.01); C02F 103/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C02F 1/4691 (2013.01); C02F 2209/40 (2013.01); C02F 2001/46161 (2013.01); C02F 2209/005 (2013.01); C02F 2103/08 (2013.01); C02F 2305/08 (2013.01); C02F 2001/46133 (2013.01);
Abstract
A water desalination system and method in accordance with the principles of the present invention employs capacitive deionization to remove ions from source water to produce deionzed and waste water. The process employs charged electrodes to attract ions of opposite polarity from the source water. The process of discharging the electrodes employs solvent drag.