System for recovering multiple kinds of ions

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9919937-B2
Application number	US-201615074731-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 18, 2016
Priority date	Aug 13, 2015
Publication date	Mar 20, 2018
Grant date	Mar 20, 2018

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to a system for recovering multiple kinds of ions, which includes: an ion adsorption tank that includes a plurality of adsorption channels arranged in parallel and including a first electrode unit electrically adsorbing only negative ions and a second electrode unit having an adsorbent layer for adsorbing positive ions to be recovered from positive ions, in which electricity is independently supplied to the adsorption channels; a water tank that keeps liquid discharged from the ion adsorption tank; a pump that circulates mother liquor or liquid stored in the water tank; and an ion recovering tank that keeps liquid containing positive ions to be recovered. According to the present disclosure, a series of processes make it possible to continuously recover ions to be recovered, so the operation efficiency of the system can be maximized.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A system for recovering multiple kinds of ions, the system comprising:
an ion adsorption tank that includes a plurality of adsorption channels arranged in parallel and each of the plurality of adsorption channels including a first electrode unit electrically adsorbing only negative ions and a second electrode unit having an adsorbent layer having higher selectivity for adsorbing positive ions to be recovered from than other positive ions, in which electricity is independently supplied to the adsorption channels;
a water tank that keeps liquid discharged from the ion adsorption tank;
a pump that circulates mother liquor containing ions or liquid stored in the water tank; and
an ion recovering tank that keeps liquid containing positive ions to be recovered, through the ion adsorption tank,
wherein different kinds of adsorbent layers are formed at the second electrode units disposed in the plurality of adsorption channels and the number of the adsorption channels disposed in the ion adsorption tank is the same as or more than the number of kinds of ions to be recovered.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein a plurality of ion adsorption tanks is provided and connected to each other front and back and the number of the plurality of ion adsorption tanks is the same as the number of the kinds of ions to be recovered.

3. The system of claim 2 , wherein liquid passing through the rear ion adsorption tank flows into another adsorption channel that the liquid has not passed through in the front ion adsorption tank.

4. The system of claim 1 , wherein the ion adsorption tank includes: a nonconductor electrically insulating the plurality of adsorption channels; and a power supply applying electricity independently to the adsorption channels.

5. The system of claim 1 , wherein the first electrode unit includes a collecting plate where electricity is applied, a porous carbon electrode coated on the collecting plate, and a negative ion exchange film attached to the porous carbon electrode,
the second electrode unit includes a collecting plate where electricity is applied, an adsorbent layer coated on the collecting plate, and a positive ion exchange film attached to the adsorbent layer, and
the positive ion exchange film and the negative ion exchange film face each other.

6. The system of claim 5 , wherein the adsorbent layer is made from a mixture of adsorbent powder for adsorbing specific positive ions and active carbon, or is formed in a double layer structure composed of adsorbent powder and active carbon.

Assignees

• Korea Inst Geoscience & Mineral Resources Kigam
• Korea Inst Geoscience & Mineral Resources

Inventors

• Ryu Tae Gong
• Kim Byoung Gyu
• Ryu Jung Ho
• Park In Su
• Hong Hye Jin
• Chung Kang Sup

Classifications

• C02F1/4604

  for desalination of seawater or brackish water · CPC title

• C02F1/4691 Primary

  Capacitive deionisation · CPC title

• C02F1/42

  by ion-exchange (ion-exchange in general B01J) · CPC title

• C02F1/283

  using coal, charred products, or inorganic mixtures containing them · CPC title

• C02F2201/4618

  Supplying or removing reactants or electrolyte · CPC title