WATER CONTENT ELIMINATOR

摘要

PURPOSE:To continuously eliminate water content in high reliability by constituting a water content eliminator of the first electrode producing protons from water content by the impression of positive voltage, a proton electrically-conductive solid, and the second electrode producing hydrogen or water from the protons by the impression of negative voltage. CONSTITUTION:An electrochemical cell 7 is formed by laminating the first porous electrode 4 and the second porous electrode 6 on a proton electrically-conductive solid 5 such as H3MO12PO40.29H2O by means of contact bonding or vapor deposition and integrating these into one body. Water contents 3 contained in gas 2 incorporated in a vessel 1 are decomposed by the reaction of H2O 2H<+>+1/2O2+2e<-> in the interface between the porous electrode 4 impressed with positive voltage by a DC electric source 9 and the electrically-conductive solid 5 and oxygen molecules 10 remain in the vessel 1. Hydrogen ions (protons) are transferred through the electrically-conductive solid 5 and water or hydrogen is produced by the reaction of 2H<+>+1/2O2+2e<-> H2O or 2H<+>+2e<-> H2 in the interface between the porous electrode 6 impressed with negative voltage and the solid 5, and these are discharged to the space brought into contact with the electrode 6 and thereby the water content incorporated in gas 2 is eliminated.