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.

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The project has started in July 2011.
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