Ion and water transport during lithium chloride concentration from aqueous organic solutions by electrodialysis

The concentration of lithium chloride from aqueous organic solutions with different volume concentrations of N,N-dimethylacetamide (DMAA) was studied experimentally. An extended model of the limiting electrodialysis concentration of electrolytes from mixed media was developed. The model takes into account the osmotic and electroosmotic mechanisms of the transfer of water and organic solvent, as well as the electromigration and diffusion mechanisms of the salt transfer. Using the experimental data and the extended model, we evaluated the transport parameters of the MK-40/MA-40 membrane pair in aprotic solutions of variable compositions and studied how they changed with an increase in the volume fraction of DMAA in a mixed solution. The contribution of each of these mechanisms of ion and water transport to the electrodialysis concentration of electrolyte from aqueous and organic aqueous solutions was determined. Electroosmotic transfer was found to be the main mechanism of the solvent transfer that limits the stage of the electrodialysis concentration of the electrolyte from aqueous and organic aqueous solutions.