Patent ID: 6294061
Filing Date: 2001-09-25
Classification: C02F

Abstract:
An electrocoagulation waste water reactor for engagement with a power source, the reactor comprising:a rectangular housing including a first pair of opposing side walls and a second pair of opposing side walls, a top wall and a bottom wall, each of the walls of the housing comprised of a non-conductive, single piece member, and all the walls having inner and outer surfaces;a multiplicity of rectangular power plates for slidably engaging the inner surfaces of at least some of the sidewalls of the housing;power engagement means cooperating with said housing and some of said rectangular power plates to engage the plates to a power source to charge them positively and for engagement with other of said rectangular power plates to the power source to charge then negatively;a multiplicity of rectangular uncharged plates for slidably engaging the inner surfaces of at least some of the side walls of the housing;means cooperating with the top wall and the bottom wall for providing passage of waste water into and out of the reactor;wherein all the plates of the reactor are maintained in parallel relation with each other and with the top and bottom wall of the housing and are engaged with some, but not all of the side walls of the housing so as to provide a gap between each plate and at least one side wall not so engaged to allow series flow of waste water through the reactor.