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Electrodialysis with Bipolar Membranes: Principles, Optimization, and Applications

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This paper is an overview of the bipolar membrane technology. The process of electrodialysis with bipolar membrane (EDBM) along with the different EDBM process configurations are presented. Some ways of optimization of both the bipolar membranes and the EDBM technology are envisaged. Most of the applications relate to the production or recovery of organic acids while the first plant has been commissioned by 1986 at Washington Steel (USA) for the recovery of HF/HNO3 from waste pickling liquors. In the last few years, there has been increasing interest in using bipolar electrodialysis stacks in chemical and agro industrial processes to directly acidify or basify process streams without the addition of chemicals. This attractive feature of this technology has contributed to the implementation of several plants in fermentation process for the production of organic and amino acids.

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Pourcelly, G. Electrodialysis with Bipolar Membranes: Principles, Optimization, and Applications. Russian Journal of Electrochemistry 38, 919–926 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1016882216287

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