Electrodialyzer and method of regenerating waste photographic processing solution
US4313808A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Jun 16, 1980 |
| Grant date | Feb 2, 1982 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jun 16, 2000 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY02A20/124
- WIPO fieldChemical engineering
- WIPO sectorChemistry
Abstract
A method of regenerating a waste photographic processing solution (e.g., a waste developing solution or a waste bleaching-fixing solution) by electrodialysis utilizing ion exchange membranes, which uses an electrodialyzer characterized by the arrangement of ion exchange membranes employed therein that a space between a cathode and an anode is partitioned by cation exchange membranes and anion exchange membranes alternately arranged, and an anode compartment is provided in a first place in the direction from the anode to the cathode, and wherein there is further provided a plural number of desalting compartments through each of which the waste photographic processing solution is passed, each of which compartments is partitioned by a cation exchange membrane on the cathode side and by an anion exchange membrane on the anode side, and an equal number of concentrating compartments, through each of which a specific solution for the concentrating compartment is passed, and each of which compartments is partitioned by an anion exchange membrane on the cathode side and by a cation exchange membrane on the anode side) arranged alternately in such a way that a desalting compartment is positi…
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