ELECTROLYTIC CELL WITH POROUS SCREEN ELECTRODES IN CONTACT WITH DIAPHRAGM

摘要

An electrolysis cell comprising a housing containing a plurality of alternating anode units and cathode units and an ion permeable membrane sheet disposed therebetween and having bonded to opposite sides of the membrane sheet a porous anode and a porous cathode, said cathode units comprising a pair of spaced foraminous electrical current cathode distributors of the same polarity forming a space for catholyte therebetween and means for flowing aqueous electrolyte through the catholyte space of the cathode unit and means for removing electrolysis products, the anode unit comprising a pair of spaced foraminous electrical current anode distributors forming a space for anolyte therebetween means for flowing aqueous halide solution through the said anolyte space and means for removing electrolysis products therefrom and means for uniformly compressing the units and membranes together whereby the current distributors are in firm electrical contact with their respective electrodes and to a novel method Or generating halogens by electrolysis Or aqueous halide solutions.