Patent ID: 8518235

Claim:
An electric based coagulant generation system for the treatment of water, the system comprising: an input operative to receive source water having particles therein; an input solution; an electrodialysis cell for creation of acids and bases from the input solution, and configured to separately output an acidic solution and a basic solution; an electrocoagulation cell for the generation of metal ions through a sacrificial electrode, the electrocoagulation cell configured to receive the acidic solution and the input solution and configured to output a coagulant solution; a hypochlorite generation cell for the generation of hypochlorite, the hypochlorite generation cell configured to receive the input solution and configured to output a hypochlorite solution; and an oxidation cell for the oxidation of metal ions, the oxidation cell configured to receive the hypochlorite solution and the coagulant solution and configured to output a final coagulant solution.