Application and Optimization of Galvano-Coagulator Process to Heavy Metal Waste Streams

The galvano-coagulator is a technology developed in the former Soviet Union in the 1980s, that is virtually unknown in the United States. The major feature of the technology is that it appears to effectively reduce hexavalent chromium, with none of the elaborate technology and expensive chemicals required of conventional chrome reduction methods. It has also been applied to lead, arsenic and cyanide. The experimental results shown by the galvano-coagulator in four months of full-scale testing showed a high level of performance, at a range of operational variables. The unit performed equally well at flow rates that differed by an order of magnitude, with no adjustments to the unit. Published by WERF. 48 pages. Soft cover.

Originally funded as WERF project 00-CTS-15ET.