METHOD AND GENERATOR FOR PRODUCING ELECTRIC CURRENT UTILIZING ELECTROCHEMICAL REACTIONS

摘要

Electric current is produced in an electrochemical generator having two chambers at different levels. The process involves creating a flow of a liquid electrolyte within the two chambers in series. The liquid electrolyte contains active solid particles or solid particles transporting an active material, the density of the particles is greater than that of the electrolyte, and the surface of the inner face of at least one chamber is formed by the electrolyte-side surface of an electron collector. The particles form in each chamber a sedimentation bed contiguous to the lower face of said chamber and entrained by the electrolyte. The flow passes from one chamber to the other through a conduit in such a manner that the flow lines in the vicinity of each of the edges which respectively define the upper and lower openings of the conduit are oriented substantially at right angles to the edges.