摘要:
An electrode in particular an oxygen-evolving anode for metal electrowinning from an acid electrolyte comprises a body of aluminium or other metal coated with lead or a lead alloy by electroplating preferably from a non-aqueous electrolyte. The substrate can be a sheet of aluminium or compacted particles of aluminium plated with lead or a lead alloy. A sheet of lead or lead alloy is clad to the electroplated substrate and advantageously an electrocatalytic material such as surface-activated valve metal sponge is applied to the surface of the lead or lead alloy.
摘要:
An electrode for use in electrolytic processes comprises a substrate of film-forming metal such as titanium having a porous electrocatalytic coating comprising at least one platinum-group metal and/or oxide thereof possibly mixed with other metal oxides, in an amount of at least about 2 g/m 2 of the platinum-group metal(s) per projected surface area of the substrate. Below the coating is a pre- formed barrier layer constituted by a surface oxide film grown up from the substrate. This preformed barrier layer has rhodium and/or iridium as metal or compound incorporated in the surface oxide film during formation thereof in an amount of up to 1 g/m 2 (as metal) per projected surface area of the substrate.
摘要翻译:在电解过程中使用的电极包括成膜金属的底物:如具有多孔电催化涂层,其包含至少一种铂族金属和/或它们的氧化物可能与其它金属氧化物混合以至少约2量钛 克/米<2>每基底的投影表面积的铂族金属(多个)。 下面的涂层是由构成的预成形阻挡层的表面氧化膜生长从基板向上。 此预成型阻挡层具有铑和/或铱作为金属或化合物中的每基板的投影表面积至多为1g / m <2>(以金属计)一个量期间其在表面形成氧化膜形成并入。
摘要:
A porous high surface area composite electroconductive catalytic material, particularly as electrocatalyst for electrolysis electrodes, comprises a porous pre-formed matrix which is a catalytic mixed crystal material of at least one platinum group metal oxide and at least one valve metal oxide throughout which a subsequently-added additional catalyst preferably consisting of at least one platinum group metal and or oxide is dispersed by chemideposition in an oxidizing or reducing atmosphere preferably followed by an annealing post heat treatment. The porous matrix may be ruthenium-titanium oxide and the additional catalyst advantageously comprises at least two oxides of ruthenium, rhodium, palladium and iridium, other combinations being possible.
摘要:
An electrode with a base of lead or lead alloy provided with catalytic particles of an inert refractory oxide activated by means of a catalyst, which particles are partly embedded, anchored and electrically connected to the base. The underlying lead or lead alloy remains electrochemically inactive and the base thereby serves only as a stable conductive support. Preferably, the electrode is an anode for oxygen evolution with titanium particles at the surface of its base, which particles are catalytically activated by means of ruthenium-manganese oxide. The anode may be used more particularly in cells for electrowinning metals with a higher degree of purity with respect to conventional cells equipped with anodes consisting of lead or a lead alloy.
摘要:
A narrow gap electrolysis cell has anode and cathode compartments (10, 11) divided by an ionically-permeable separator (12), such as an ion-exchange membrane or a fibrous diaphragm, and a current feeder grid (18, 19) in electrical contact with a surface-activated particulate electrocatalytic material (14, 15) carried on a face of the separator (12). The particulate material has cores of a corrosion-resistant material preferably valve metal particles or sponge, or compounds thereof, as well as asbestos fibres and fibres of ion-exchange copolymeric perfluorocarbons, coated with a platinum-group metal catalyst in metal or oxide form. The surface-activated particles may be at least partly carried by a flexible electronically conductive foil (16, 17) between the current feeder grid (18, 19) and the separator (12).
摘要:
The precipitation or depositing of particles from a solution in a cell (61) in which an electric field is applied between an anode (65,67,68) and a cathode (66), typically an electrolysis cell for the co-precipitation of mixed oxides but also cells for electrodeposition or the electrophoretic deposition of colloidal particles, is controlled by measuring the pH of the solution in the cell using a probe (72) shielded in a tube (73) from the migrating electric current and from gas bubbles. The pH of the solution is then adjusted to a selected value as a function of the measured pH, e.g. by varying the electrolysis current or by bubbling in acid vapour, air or base vapour.
摘要:
An anode with a base of lead or lead alloy is provided with catalytic particles of titanium which comprise a very small amount of platinum group metal or an oxide thereof. These catalytic particles are partly embedded, anchored and electrically connected to the base, so that oxygen. is evolved on these particles at a reduced potential at which the underlying lead or lead alloy of the base remains electrochemically inactive, and the anode base thereby serves only as a stable conductive support to the catalytic particles. Operation of this anode at a reduced potential provides energy savings. It may be used more particularly in cells for electrowinning metals with a higher degree of purity at a reduced energy cost with respect to conventional cells equipped with anodes consisting of lead or a lead alloy.