Patent ID: 6905797

Claim:
An electrode suitable for use in an electrochemical reactor, the electrode comprising: a porous mat permeable to an electrolyte solution and including a source and a drain channelwork each having respective finger channels therein which are substantially parallel to each other, wherein the finger channels of the source channelwork are interleaved with the parallel finger channels of the drain channelwork; wherein the source channelwork has a manifolding channel running along an inlet side of a chamber where the electrolyte solution is fed into the chamber, wherein the drain channelwork has a manifolding channel opposing the manifolding channel of the source channelwork and running along an outlet side of the chamber from where the electrolyte solution exits the chamber, wherein all finger channels of each of the interleaved source and drain channelworks extend from the respective manifolding channel and terminate short of reaching the manifolding channel of the other channelwork.