Electrolyser for highly-active tritiated water

摘要

An inorganic gas separator which has a porosity between 30 and 70% and a pore diameter between 10 and 100 mu m, and which is gas impermeable when soaked-through with liquid, is mounted in a frame, divides a cell housing into two compartments, and is moistened by capillarity with liquid fed through channels extending in the frame. In each compartment are mounted a porous foil, an electrode, a pre-electrode, a metal plate and an insulating plate. On the cell-housing thermo-electric heat pumps are mounted for cooling and the unit formed by the housing and the pumps is surrounded by an outer casing.