Re: Please help me understand this reaction.

Glen Ray wrote:
Thanks for your reply Marvin. I wish it was that simple. The vat is a fiberglass tank and because of the nature of the waste there is no metalthrough the rest of the system. The pumps are all plastic pneumatic pumps with no conductive parts.
I did some more testing today. With the tank full and the mixer tank running I got a reading of about 50 mV. When I shut the mixer off the voltage dropped to -50 mV.
This tells me the mixer is leaking about 100 mV into the process. I dropped a grounded copper wire into the process and greatly reduced the voltage.

The other day when I tested voltage I saw a negative voltage and really didn't much more about it, but now i believe the reaction is producing a negative voltage.
Where was the "ground" that you connected to meter to?

I used a cleaned copper water line near the process. I tested the copper line to metal structure for continuity. there were zero ohms resistance.

GR


Does the copper line connect to the solution that the copper electrode is in? Otherwise, how is the electrical circuit completed?
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