Electrolytic cell with advanced oxidation process and electro catalytic paddle electrode

A electro-catalytic paddle electrode assembly disposed within a tank or reactor for creating hydroxyl radicals for treatment of a fluid traveling through the tank or reactor, the reactor tank having an internal treating area and having aft a plurality of inlet nozzles with each of the plurality of inlet nozzles disposed at an end of an associated one piping outlet of a plurality of piping outlets, wherein the plurality of piping outlets serving as inlets for influent water into the tank or reactor, comprising:

• a plurality of flat plate electrodes, each plate electrode having a short side and a long side, wherein the plurality of plate electrodes arranged in a pattern where the short side of adjacent flat plate electrodes of the plurality of flat plate electrodes alternate from being either disposed in a lower position or an upper position, each flat plate electrode of the plurality of flat plate electrodes having its short side located at a same first end as all other flat plate electrodes of the plurality of flat plate electrodes regardless of whether the short side is in the upper position or the lower position, each of the plurality of flat plate electrodes having a plurality of apertures therethrough with a first aperture of the plurality of apertures being located at the short side of the flat plate electrode and a second aperture of the plurality of apertures being located at the long side of the flat plate electrode, each of the electrodes having an outer surface;
• a plurality of insulated rods, each rod of the plurality of insulated rods inserted through a corresponding one of the apertures of the flat plate electrodes for holding the plurality of flat plate electrodes together;
• a plurality of insulator spacers, each of the plurality of insulated spacers having an internal passageway, wherein a rod of the plurality of insulated rods is inserted through the internal passageway of an insulated spacer such that the plurality of insulated spacers are disposed on a corresponding rod and are disposed between adjacent plate electrodes being held together by the plurality of insulated rods for separating the plate electrodes from each other;
• a pair of metal rods, a first of the pair of metal rods inserted through the first apertures of the flat plate electrodes having the short side in the lower position and a second of the pair of metal rods inserted through the first aperture of the flat plate electrodes having the short side in the upper position;
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• a pair of anode/cathode rods oriented perpendicular to the, a first of the pair of anode/cathode rods connected at a first end directly to the first of the pair of metal rods and a second of the pair of anode/cathode rods connected at a first end directly to the second of the pair of metal rods such that the first anode/cathode rod is electrically connected to the flat plate electrodes having the short side in the lower position and the second anode/cathode rod is electrically connected to the flat plate electrodes having the short side in the upper position;
• wherein the plurality of flat plate electrodes, plurality of insulated rods, plurality of insulator spacers, plurality of metal rods and plurality of anode/cathode rods are all housed within the tank or reactor that a fluid travels for fluid treatment;
• wherein the outer surface of the plurality of plate electrodes are sterilized by turbulence created by hydrodynamic cavitation of fluid within the tank or reactor at the inlet nozzle which results in organic contamination breakdown or removal from the outer surface of the plurality of plate electrode,
• wherein each of the plate electrodes having the same shape and dimensions regardless of whether the plate electrode is being used as a cathode or an anode;
• wherein a certain amount of plate electrodes are used as anodes and an equal amount of plate electrodes are used as cathodes to provide for a balanced and uniformed current distribution across the anode and cathode;
• wherein only one metal rod is used for electrically connected all of the plate electrodes serving as cathodes and only one metal rod is used for electronically connecting all of the plate electrodes serving as anodes.