Ion Exchangers

Term project by Scott Wierzchowski, Nov. 1995


The applications of ion exchange today rangefrom water purification to separation of various antibiotics from fermentation broths. These web pages aim to introduce some understanding for the process of ion exchange.

Ion exchange is a reversible transfer of ions between a solid and a liquid in which there is no substantial change in the structure of the solid. The solid phase is the ion exchange resin that can be thought of as an elastic three-dimensional network with a large number of ionizable groups.


Introduction by a different student with an index that is useful