{"id":8578,"date":"2026-09-25T11:31:56","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T09:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.innowater.com\/news\/bipolar-cells-reverse-polarity-and-programmable-polarity-in-salt-chlorination\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T20:11:32","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T18:11:32","slug":"salt-chlorinator-cell-reverse-polarity-bipolarity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innowater.com\/en\/news\/water-treatment\/salt-chlorinator-cell-reverse-polarity-bipolarity\/","title":{"rendered":"Bipolar cells, reverse polarity and programmable polarity in salt chlorination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The cell is one of the key components of a salt chlorinator. Its design, electrodes, coating, and <strong>polarity<\/strong> management directly affect chlorine production, maintenance, and durability. Learn what a bipolar cell is, how reverse polarity works, and what programmable polarity adds.<\/p>\n<p>It is in the <b>electrolysis cell<\/b> of a salt chlorinator that the electrochemical process takes place, transforming the chlorides present in salt water into active chlorine species capable of disinfecting pool water.<\/p>\n<p>However, simply talking about a \u201csalt chlorination cell\u201d doesn\u2019t really tell you how a unit works or what its long-term performance may be.<\/p>\n<p>Among the technologies used today, <b>bipolar cells<\/b>, <b>reverse polarity<\/b> systems, and solutions with <b>programmable polarity<\/b> stand out.<\/p>\n<p>But what does each concept mean, and what benefits does it offer? We explain it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cell is one of the key components of a salt chlorinator. Its design, electrodes, coating, and polarity management directly affect chlorine production, maintenance, and durability. Learn what a bipolar cell is, how reverse polarity works, and what programmable polarity adds. It is in the electrolysis cell of a salt chlorinator that the electrochemical process [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8577,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"Salt chlorination cell: reverse polarity and bipolarity","_seopress_titles_desc":"Learn how the electrolytic cells in a salt chlorinator work: bipolar cell, reverse and programmable polarity, advantages, efficiency...","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[590,591,589,592,588,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-8578","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-water-treatment","8":"tag-bipolar-cell","9":"tag-bipolarity","10":"tag-electrolytic-cell","11":"tag-reverse-polarity","12":"tag-salt-chlorinator-cell","13":"tag-salt-chlorinator-electrodes"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innowater.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innowater.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innowater.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innowater.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innowater.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8578"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.innowater.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8584,"href":"https:\/\/www.innowater.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8578\/revisions\/8584"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innowater.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innowater.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innowater.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innowater.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}