The overall height of catalyst bed as well as the optimal feeding point was obtained for different detritiation efficiency under specific mass transfer coefficient of catalysts.
This is essentially the opposite of a galvanic cell, known as an electrolytic cell, and it performs electrolysis, which uses electricity, electro-, to do the breaking apart, -lysis.
Mayer thought he’d figured out an easy way to do it, with far less energy wasted than a normal electrolytic cell, but what he created consumed more energy than it produced.