FP7- Marie Curie Actions (PIRSES-GA-2010-269135) Project
Full Title: Coupled Ion- and Volume-Transfer Phenomena in Heterogeneous
Systems: Modelling, Experiment and Applications in Clean Energy, Micro-Analysis
and Water Treatment


  Objectives. The passage of electric current through interfaces between media with different electrochemical properties is accompanied by changes in the solution composition close to the interfaces (concentration polarization). Another phenomenon occurring at solid-liquid interfaces is the charge separation and formation of (equilibrium and non-equilibrium) double electric layers. Subject to external and/or spontaneously arising electric fields and ion-composition gradients, the space charges give rise to volume-transfer phenomena. The current-induced volume transfer could intensify mass-exchange in separative processes (such as electrodialysis, electrophoresis), to be an inevitable phenomenon accompanying ion-transfer in fuel cells or to be the aim of the device (micropumps).
The purpose of this project is to facilitate the knowledge transfer among the partners(the Table) to make possible the integration of different elements into a self‐consistent and comprehensive model of coupled ion‐ and volume‐transfer phenomena in heterogeneous systems.  Its utility will be validated via optimization of several practically-relevant systems/processes. The results of the project will of interest for Clean Energy, Micro-Analysis and Water Treatment.


Partners

Partner Number

Partner name

Partner short name

Country

1 Beneficiary

Polytechnic University of Catalonia

UPC

Spain

2 Beneficiary

Institut Européen des Membranes Montpellier

IEMM

France

3 Beneficiary  

Institut de Chimie et des 
Matériaux Paris-Est

ICMPE

France

4 Partner  

Kuban State University  

KubSU

Russia

5 Partner  

Institute of Bio-Colloidal
Chemistry

 

IBCC

Ukraine

6 Partner

University of the Western Cape

UWC

South Africa

The project has started in July 2011.
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