posted on 2023-05-26, 12:06authored byDanni Ye, Fengfeng Gao, Guoliang Zeng, Xingfang Zhang, Xiaogang Hao, Jun Li, Zhong Liu, Zhiyong Ji
An electroactive bismuth oxybromide/polyvinylidene difluoride/carbon
black(BiOBr/PVDF/CB) composite film electrode was fabricated that
had a bromide ion trap (Br–-trap) effect obtained
by prereleasing of Br– under reduction potential.
The Br–-trap BiOBr/PVDF/CB film electrode was used
for the selective extraction of Br– from salt lake
brine by electrochemically switched ion exchange (ESIX) technology.
Moreover, an industrially scalable ESIX pilot system was designed
and the effects of different process parameters were investigated.
In the ESIX system, the obtained film electrode exhibited efficient
adsorption quantity, and remarkable selectivity owing to its special
ion trap effect. The extraction capacity of Br– reached
67.10 mg g–1 with the separation factors of 2.06
and 7.13 for Br–/Cl– and Br–/NO3–, respectively, and
the desorption efficiency of the film electrode remained at 95.4%
after seven repeated cycles. It manifested that the pilot system with
the Br–-trap BiOBr/PVDF/CB film electrode is expected
to provide a novel direction for practical industrial Br– extraction.