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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 12, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 29, 2015
Pionetics Corporation, San Carlos, CA (US);
Mauricio Lask, San Francisco, CA (US);
Dennis Menchung Kwok, San Mateo, CA (US);
Eric David Nyberg, San Carlos, CA (US);
Stephen Leroy Tondre, Fremont, CA (US);
PIONETICS CORPORATION, San Carlos, CA (US);
Abstract
An anti-scale electrochemical apparatus comprises at least one ion exchange cell, each cell comprising a housing having a plurality of openings to receive and release a water stream, inner and outer electrodes in the housing, and a water-splitting membrane between the inner and outer electrodes to treat an influent water stream to form an effluent water stream. A controlled-release scale-inhibitor composite comprising a scale-inhibitor agent and a polymer, is provided in the housing or in the water flow pathway of the electrochemical apparatus. An anti-scale, water splitting ion exchange membrane was also fabricated.