On the possibility of using the reactor for the reagent production

Authors: Elchaninov A.V.
Published in issue: #4(57)/2021
DOI: 10.18698/2541-8009-2021-4-692
Category: Ecology and Industrial Safety | Chapter: Human ecology
Keywords: water treatment, electrocoagulation, electrical conductivity, Faraday’s law, current efficiency, energy efficiency, coagulation, iron hydroxides
Published: 27.04.2021

The possibility has been investigated of using a reactor for the production of iron hydroxide used for water purification. The costs of electricity for the electrocoagulation process and possible ways to reduce them are considered. The advantages of a reactor for the production of iron hydroxide in comparison with a flow-through electrocoagulator are shown. The installation was assembled and experiments were carried out to determine the iron concentration depending on the time of the reagent production. The results obtained are compared with theoretical ones obtained according to Faraday’s law. The values of the current efficiency coefficients for different points in time, as well as the specific power consumption for the production of one gram of iron, have been calculated.