Wet electrostatic precipitator having removable nested hexagonal collector plates and magnetic aligning and rapping means

An electrostatic precipitator, the precipitator comprising a shell, gas inlet and outlet ducts in fluid flow communication with the shell, a plurality of discharge electrodes and collecting electrodes disposed within the shell, an upperframe for suspending the discharge electrodes within the shell, the upper frame insulatingly supported by the shell, a lower frame supported from the upper frame by at least some of the discharge electrodes, means for supporting the collecting electrodes, a plurality of fluid sprayers disposed above the collecting electrodes, the collecting electrodes forming a honeycombed pattern of repeating, hexagonal collecting zones within the precipitator, the collecting electrodes including a plurality of long plates having two opposing sixty degree bends formed along the two longitudinal edges of each plate, each bent edge of each plate registered with two similar longitudinal edges from two similarly formed adjacent collecting electrodes to form a self-nesting, equiangled, Y-shaped intersection point and the resultant honeycombed pattern of repeating, hexagonal collecting electrodes throughout the precipitator, and a discharge electrode disposed within each collecting electrode.