Electrocoagulation and advanced electrocoagulation processes: A general review about the fundamentals, emerging applications and its association with other technologies

TLDR: The electrocoagulation (EC) process is an electrochemical means of introducing coagulants and removing suspended solids, colloidal material, and metals, as well as other dissolved solids from water and wastewaters as discussed by the authors.

About: This article is published in Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry.The article was published on 2017-09-15 and is currently open access. It has received 429 citations till now.

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Table 2 (continued)

Fig. 4. Electrodes arrangements in electrocoagulation cells: (a) monopolar electrodes in parallel connection, (b) monopolar electrodes in serial connection and (c) bipolar electrodes in serial connection.

Fig. 5. Diagram of the different electrocoagulation reactors usage in the literature: (a) conventional reactors respect others and (b) the alternative reactors usage.

Table 2 (continued)

Fig. 1. Predominance-zone diagrams for iron species in aqueous solution in function of pH. Iron species: (a) Fe(II), (b) Fe (III).

Table 4 Electrocoagulation treatment of actual effluents by electrocoagulation technologies.