Patent ID: 8430996

Claim:
An electrocoagulation reactor for the treatment of waste water, the electrocoagulation reactor for engagement with a DC power source and a source of waste water, the electrocoagulation reactor comprising: a housing having walls and having an inlet for receiving waste water therein; a multiplicity of anode/cathode pairs of oppositely charged spaced apart plates engaged with a power source to charge the anode with a positive charge and the cathode with a negative charge wherein each pair has between it at least one segmented intermediate plate which is not engaged with the power source of electrical energy which segmented intermediate plate consists of multiple segments, which multiple segments lay generally in the same plane and; wherein each of the segments of the segmented intermediate plate has a top edge, two side edges, and a bottom edge and wherein at least one bottom edge of a segment is in contact with a top edge on another segment of the segmented intermediate plate.