Electrolytic reactor continuous

The following scheme was suggested as a possible network model to describe a real electrolytic processes. Reactors 1 and 2 are continuous-flow stirred-tank electrolytic reactors (CSTER), reactor 3 is a reactor for the recycling electrolyte and reactor 4 is collector in which no electrolytic process takes place. 

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Two types of continuous flow solid oxide cell reactors are typically used in electrochemical promotion experiments. The single chamber reactor depicted in Fig. B.l is made of a quartz tube closed at one end. The open end of the tube is mounted on a stainless steel cap, which has provisions for the introduction of reactants and removal of products as well as for the insertion of a thermocouple and connecting wires to the electrodes of the cell. A solid electrolyte disk, with three porous electrodes deposited on it, is appropriately clamped inside the reactor. Au wires are normally used to connect the catalyst-working electrode as well as the two Au auxiliary electrodes with the external circuit. These wires are mechanically pressed onto the corresponding electrodes, using an appropriate ceramic holder. A thermocouple, inserted in a closed-end quartz tube is used to measure the temperature of the solid electrolyte pellet. 

An appreciable increase in working area of the electrodes can be attained with porous electrodes (Section 18.4). Such electrodes are widely used in batteries, and in recent years they are also found in electrolyzers. Attempts are made to use particulate electrodes which consist of a rather thick bed of particulate electrode material into which the auxiliary electrode is immersed together with a separator. Other efforts concern fiuidized-bed reactors, where a finely divided electrode material is distributed over the full electrolyte volume by an ascending liquid or gas flow and collides continuously with special current collector electrodes (Section 18.5). 

Equipment. All of the catalysts were tested in continuous flow, fixed-bed pilot plants equipped for both liquid and gas recycle operation and continuous distillation of products. Hydrocarbons boiling above the desired product end point were recycled to extinction, that is, to 100 conversion of fresh feed. The product was cooled and passed into a high pressure phase separator. Here, hydrogen-rich recycle gas was flashed from the hydrocarbon product and recycled back to the reactor inlet. Electrolytic hydrogen make-up was added on demand to maintain constant system pressure. 

For the continuous process, a special divided cell (Pb02/steel anode, steel cathode, Nafion as cation exchange membrane) based on the principle of a tubular reactor was developed. The final product can be removed in gaseous form, so that the electrolyte can be recycled in a simple manner. The membrane and electrodes are supposed to have lifetimes of at least one year 63). Hexafluoropropylene is a useful monomer for fluorine-containing polymers, e.g., fluorinated polyethers. 

Recent advances on the Ca-Br cycle were presented in an ANL paper. The original concept for this cycle involved solid phase reactions in a semi-continuous batch operation. The ANL paper reported on experiments that used a direct sparging reactor in the hydrolysis reaction to allow continuous production of HBr which is then electrolytically decomposed to produce hydrogen. The sparging steam was introduced into the molten bath of CaBr2 which yielded HBr in a stable and continuous operation. 

Porous metallic structures have been used for electrocatalysis (Chen and Lasia, 1991 Kallenberg et al., 2007). Porous electrodes are made with conductive materials that can degrade under high temperatures at high anodic potential conditions. This last problem is of less importance for fuel cell anodes, which operate at relatively low potentials, but it can be of importance for electrochemical reactors. Porous column electrodes prepared by packing a conductive material (carbon fiber, metal shot) forming a bar are frequently used. Continuous-flow column electrolytic procedures can provide high efficiencies for electrosynthesis or removal of pollutants in industrial situations. Theoretical analysis for the electrodeposition of metals on porous solids has been provided by Masliy et al. (2008). 

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