摘要:
A method for rendering an aluminum electrowinning cell component fabricated from an aluminum nonwettable material wettable by molten aluminum, and therefore utilizable within the cell. Under the method, the component is coated with titanium and boron, and while the component is immersed in molten aluminum within the cell, the molten aluminum is maintained near saturation with boron and titanium.
摘要:
An electrode having a lead base and a catalyst is manufactured by (a) compressing titanium sponge particles so as to consolidate them to a coherent porous layer, (b) applying the catalyst to the titanium sponge particles, and (c) fixing the layer of consolidated sponge particles to the lead base. The catalyst is formed on the titanium sponge particles before or after their consolidation to a coherent layer. This layer may be produced and fixed to the base in a single compressing and fixing step combining (a) and (c). Oxygen is anodically evolved at a reduced, stable potential by means of this electrode, so that it can be usefully applied as an anode in processes for electrowinning metals from acid electrolytes.
摘要:
A bifunctional gas-diffusion electrode operative alternately for gas consumption and gas evolution comprises a gas-side layer in which gas consumption takes place, an electrolyte-side layer where gas evolution takes place and an intermediate rectifying layer of semi-conducting material arranged between the gas-side layer and the electrolyte-side layer so as to prevent unwanted gas evolution in the gas-side layer. The rectifying layer may be a p-n junction or may form part of a Schottky barrier junction.
摘要:
An electrolytic process for the removal of a significant proportion of one or more metal contaminants from waste water involves treating the waste water in an electrolytic cell (10) having a plurality of anodes (16) and cathodes (17) in an alternating arrangement. Each anode (16) has openings, such as perforations or open interconnected pores, to permit the waste water to flow through. Each cathode (17) is a metallized open-cell organic polymeric foam substrate which has been metallized first electrolessly and then electrolytically.
摘要:
This disclosure is directed to the preparation of nickel-plated organic polymer foam reticulate electrodes having open, interconnected cells and upon which nickel is deposited first electrolessly then electrolytically. The nickel-plated reticulate is subsequently impregnated with precursor salts yielding active nickel oxides and then compressed to obtain a compressed, nickel plated, reticulated polymeric foam reservoir containing active nickel oxides (also referred to as nickel oxide-hydroxide, viz., Ni(OH) 2 .
摘要:
A substantially non-consumable anode used in the production of aluminium from a cryolite-based fused bath containing alumina consists of a sintered self-sustaining ceramic oxide body of spinel structure which is made conductive by selective partial substitution, the introduction of non-stoichiometry or by doping so as to maintain the impurities in the produced aluminium at low levels. Preferred materials are partially-substituted nickel ferrite spinels.
摘要:
A catalytic electrode has an electrically conductive substrate such as titanium with a coating comprising a platinum-group metal catalyst finely dispersed in a matrix consisting of a semi-conducting polymer formed in situ on the substrate. The catalyst may be a platinum-group metal oxide such as iridium oxide formed in situ together with the semi-conducting polymer by the application of a uniform liquid mixture followed by a controlled heattreatment. The semi-conducting polymer is preferably formed from polyacrylonitrile, polybenzimidazo-pyrrolone or an adamantane based polybenzoxazole.