WATER DESALTING BY MEANS OF ELECTROCHEMICAL PARAMETRIC PUMPING: I. THE EQUILIBRIUM PROPERTIES OF A BATCH UNIT CELL.

Starting from some physiochemical features of the electrical double layer of an electrode in electrolyte solution, the equilibrium properties of a desalination cell operated by electroadsorption on high specific surface area electrodes were established. These equilibrium properties provide the theoretical background and basic experimental data necessary for studying and understanding the dynamics of a multi-stage desalination column, whose bed is formed of two electroadsorbing electrodes performing as an electrochemical parametric pump.