Reverse Electrodialysis Process: Analysis of Optimal Conditions for Process Scale-up

Reverse Electrodialysis (SGP-RE or RED) process has been widely accepted as a viable and promising technology to produce electric energy from salinity difference (i.e salinity gradient power - e.g. using river water/seawater, or seawater and concentrated brines). Recent R&D efforts demonstrated how an appropriate design of the SGP-RE unit and a suitable selection of process conditions may crucially enhance the process performance. With this regard, a process simulator was developed and validated with experimental data collected on a lab-scale unit, providing a new modelling tool for process optimisation. In this work, performed within the REAPower project (www.reapower.eu), the process simu…