Good Times

We were a bit stuck last week in terms of finding a suitable current collector to use with our electrodes, so we reached out to Dr. Tom Davis, who we knew had extensive experience with electrodialysis systems and could most likely provide a few helpful tips. From our research, we knew that a titanium plate would serve as the best current collector, but faced the challenged of finding one that met our stack dimensions and could be delivered in a reasonable time frame. With Dr. Davis’s help, we stumbled upon an El Paso metal company that had a single titanium plate just big enough to be cut to fit our stack. Just needing a way to connect the power supply to the current collector, we went to several places looking for titanium screws to avoid unnecessary corrosion between the metals, but they’re apparently pretty uncommon. Fortunately, we found a company in Nevada that could deliver the screws by Wednesday of this week, so once those arrive all that’s left is to weld the screws to the plates and then we can start testing the system. Cheers to progress

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Seye cutting the carbon electrode

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