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Application of Electrocoagulation
Code: 000003
Price: $30.00
Description: Foreword
This short review was compiled as a result of the authors own involvement in utilising electrocoagulation process in a major part of their research work. It all started more than 20 years ago in 1984, when John Adduci, an honours student of Dr. Bela Ternai of La Trobe University, carried out a preliminary investigation into the isolation of stevioside, a natural product with intensely sweet taste. In one of his procedures, he used electrolysis, an unusual technique for a natural product chemist, as a step in the isolation. Although he was not the first to use this technique for this purpose, his work had caused a familiarisation and an awareness of the potential usefulness of this electrochemical technique for the authors from that time on.
Hopefully, this review will also cause an awareness on the part of the reader of the versatility of the electrocoagulation process, the process that has been around for more than a hundred years now. However, due to a low level of environmental awareness and a lack of sufficient financial incentives, this technology was more or less abandoned and not developed further for a long period of time. Nevertheless, the increase in environmental restrictions on effluent wastewater, the focus on cost-effective alternatives, the trend to minimise wastes, and the new uses of the technology have now been responsible for the resurgence of electrocoagulation as an important tool for various applications.
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