Seawater desalination by electrodialysis

The first seawater desalination plant by electrodialysis in the world started its operation in September, 1974 at Noshima island of Hofu city, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. The capacity of the plant is 120 m 3/day and the plant has been supplying fresh water from the sea for the 800 inhabitants of th...

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Published inDesalination Vol. 25; no. 1; pp. 1 - 7
Main Authors Seto, T., Ehara, L., Komori, R., Yamaguchi, A., Miwa, T.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Elsevier B.V 01.01.1978
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Summary:The first seawater desalination plant by electrodialysis in the world started its operation in September, 1974 at Noshima island of Hofu city, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. The capacity of the plant is 120 m 3/day and the plant has been supplying fresh water from the sea for the 800 inhabitants of the island. Batchwise operation is utilized to simplify the process because of its relatively small capacity, but the operation is fully automatic to supply fresh water continuously using a storage of proper capacity. The water cost is relatively high but lower than that of conventional distillation processes of the same capacity.
ISSN:0011-9164
1873-4464
DOI:10.1016/S0011-9164(00)82440-6