InDesalination, from 1987 to 2009, the birth of a new seawater pretreatment process: Electrocoagulation-an overview

Abstract

In the first journal in the desalination world, Desalination, during the last 20 years, there is the birth of a new seawater pretreatment process: electrocoagulation (EC). In order to note some facts of this birth, relate its context, and understand its circumstances, this review concerns a brief description of the application of EC as a new seawater pretreatment process throughout the work of Sanfan and Qinlai (1987) until the work of Yi et al. (2009) via the work of Sanfan (1991); all of them are published in Desalination. The first paper (1987) discusses the mechanism of removing some ions from the brackish water using EC method. Experiment results present some major parameters for the EC process. The most important one in operation is electric current density (CD). Moreover, the fi rst paper suggests the method of selecting optimum density and some ways could raise economic property of EC and could reduce handling costs. In the paper of Sanfan (1991) the further research results of improving economic ...