US 12,030,794 B2
Method for electrochemical treatment of water
Julie Bliss Mullen, North Oxford, MA (US); and David A. Reckhow, Northampton, MA (US)
Assigned to UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS, Boston, MA (US)
Filed by UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS, Boston, MA (US)
Filed on Jun. 7, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/834,155.
Application 17/834,155 is a continuation of application No. 16/349,004, granted, now 11,396,463, previously published as PCT/US2017/061030, filed on Nov. 10, 2017.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/420,109, filed on Nov. 10, 2016.
Prior Publication US 2022/0298032 A1, Sep. 22, 2022
Int. Cl. C02F 1/46 (2023.01); C02F 1/461 (2023.01); C02F 1/467 (2023.01); C25B 9/00 (2021.01); C25B 11/031 (2021.01); C25B 11/04 (2021.01)
CPC C02F 1/4674 (2013.01) [C02F 1/46109 (2013.01); C25B 9/00 (2013.01); C25B 11/031 (2021.01); C25B 11/04 (2013.01); C02F 2001/46133 (2013.01); C02F 2001/46157 (2013.01); C02F 2001/46161 (2013.01); C02F 2001/46171 (2013.01); C02F 2209/02 (2013.01); C02F 2209/04 (2013.01); C02F 2209/05 (2013.01); C02F 2209/06 (2013.01); C02F 2209/29 (2013.01); C02F 2209/40 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A flow-through electrochemical reactor comprising:
a hollow reactor shell having an internal wall, a fluid inlet for providing fluid to an interior of the hollow reactor shell, and a fluid outlet for withdrawing fluid from the flow-through reactor;
a hollow anode disposed within the hollow reactor shell;
a cylindrical cathode disposed substantially parallel to and concentrically outside the anode;
a tubal member disposed inside the hollow reactor shell, the tubal member being configured to pass solution from outside the hollow reactor shell to the interior of the hollow reactor shell;
a solution flow path being formed between the fluid inlet and the fluid outlet, the solution flow path extending from the fluid inlet, into a space between the anode and the cylindrical cathode, and to the fluid outlet.