Development of a standard bench-scale cell for electrochemical studies on inert anodes. Inert Anode/Cathode Program
Objective of this work was to develop a standard bench-scale cell for performing short-term ac and dc polarization studies on inert anode candidate materials in molten cryolite. Two designs for electrochemical cells were developed and successfully evaluated in short-term experiments. Both cells consisted on the inert anode as a small cylindrical specimen partially sheathed in alumina, an Al/Al/sub 2/O/sub 3/ reference electrode, and a cryolite bath saturated in alumina. The difference between the two cells was in the design of the cathode. One cell used a bare solid metal cathode; the other used an aluminum pad similar to the Hall-Heroult configuration.
- Research Organization:
- Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC06-76RL01830
- OSTI ID:
- 5330911
- Report Number(s):
- PNL-5898; ON: DE86015500
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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ORGANIC
PHYSICAL AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
ELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS
ANODES
ALUMINIUM FLUORIDES
BENCH-SCALE EXPERIMENTS
CATHODES
MOLTEN SALTS
SODIUM FLUORIDES
ALKALI METAL COMPOUNDS
ALUMINIUM COMPOUNDS
ELECTRODES
FLUORIDES
FLUORINE COMPOUNDS
HALIDES
HALOGEN COMPOUNDS
SALTS
SODIUM COMPOUNDS
400400* - Electrochemistry