Asahi Glass Company, Limited

Yasuo Sajima

Kimihiko Sato

Junjiro Iwamoto

Makoto Nakao

Toshihiko Kuno

Manabu Suhara

Tatsuro Asawa

Harumi Ohbe

Takeshi Morimoto

Yoshio Oda

Kiyotaka Arai

Hiroaki Ito

Makoto Noshiro

Takahiro Uchibori

Kohji Saito

Osamu Shiragami

Hideya Tanaka

Tanzo Jizaimaru

A cation exchange membrane is installed to an electrolytic cell to be used in a form of a cation exchange membrane of a fluorinated polymer having ion exchange groups having the formula

Method of installation of membrane to electrolytic cell

An alkali metal chloride-electrolyzing cell comprises a cation-exchange membrane disposed between an anode and a cathode, characterized in that said cation-exchange membrane has on at least one side thereof a gas- and liquid-permeable, porous layer with no electrode activity, and at least one of an anode and a cathode is a voided flexible electrode having a more rigidity than that of said cation-exchange membrane, and said flexible electrode is designed to be forcibly deformed thereby closely contacting said cation-exchange membrane with the surface of each of said electrodes.

Alkali metal chloride electrolyzing cell

A filter press type ion exchange membrane electrolytic cell which comprises an anode compartment and a cathode compartment partitioned by a cation exchange membrane and which is useful for obtaining a halogen, hydrogen and an alkali metal hydroxide from an alkali metal halide aqueous solution, or oxygen and hydrogen from an aqueous alkaline solution. The filter press type electrolytic cell is characterized by:

Filter press type electrolytic cell

An electrolytic cell for the electrolysis of an alkali metal chloride, wherein an ion-exchange membrane provided at least on one side thereof with a gas and liquid permeable non-electrocatalytic porous layer, is disposed between an anode and a cathode so that the porous layer is in contact with the facing electrode, said ion-exchange membrane being provided on its porous layer surface with grooves which form continuous void spaces and secure passages for the electrolyte at the interface between the electrode and the ion-exchange membrane.

Electrolytic cell for the electrolysis of an alkali metal chloride and

An electrolytic cell comprises intercalated finger-shaped electrodes each disposed through a cation exchange membrane, in which said cation exchange membrane constitutes a cylinder or envelope enclosing a finger-shaped anode or cathode A flare is formed at one end or each end of the cylinder or at the open end of the envelope. The flare is joined with a flange to form a unitary cation exchange membrane-flange structure which liquid-tightly divides an anode compartment and a cathode compartment.

Electrolytic cell

A process for electrolyzing an aqueous solution of an alkali metal chloride by feeding said aqueous solution of an alkali metal chloride into the central space of a hollow quadrilateral frame holding an anode therein, defining an anode compartment, and feeding water or a dilute aqueous solution of an alkali metal hydroxide into the central space of a hollow quadrilateral frame holding a cathode therein, defining a cathode compartment, said anode compartment and said cathode compartment being separated by a cation exchange membrane, in a filter-press type electrolytic cell wherein:

Process for electrolyzing aqueous solution of alkali metal chloride

An alkali metal hydroxide is produced by electrolyzing an aqueous solution of an alkali metal chloride fed into an anode compartment in a cell having an anode compartment and a cathode compartment formed by partitioning with a cation exchange membrane. A cation exchange membrane of a fluorinated polymer having carboxylic acid groups at a content of 0.9 to 2.0 meq./g. dry resin is used as said cation exchange membrane and a metal or a metal ion is incorporated in said aqueous solution of an alkali metal chloride to form a thin layer made of a metal hydroxide or oxide on the surface of said membrane in the anode compartment.

Process for producing alkali metal hydroxide

An electrode compartment is a part of a filter press type electrolytic cell for electrolyzing an alkali metal chloride. The electrode compartment comprises lower, upper and side frames to form an electrolyzing chamber, and current lead bars which are inserted from the bottom of the lower frame in the vertical direction to be parallel to lifting flow of an electrolyte and the electrode being mechanically held through fitting means on the lead bars in the electrolyzing chamber.

Electrode compartment

A filter-press type electrolytic cell comprises alternatively arranging quadrilateral frames and ion-exchange membranes to form alternatively anolyte compartments and catholyte compartments under fastening the frames wherein said frame comprises hollow member for path of liquid and gas which has inlet or outlet at the outer surface thereof and holes at the inner surface thereof and a gas-liquid separator whereby each type of electrolytes is passed into an anolyte or catholyte compartment formed in the frame and the electrolyzed product is discharged from the anolyte or catholyte compartment.

A filter-press type electrolytic cell comprising alternatively arranged frames and diaphragms fastened together to form alternating anolyte compartments and catholyte compartments, wherein said frames comprise two oppositely disposed hollow members one of which has an inlet and the other an outlet for the flow of electrolyte solutions said inlet or outlet being on the outside surface thereof and each of said members having holes on the inside surface thereof which surfaces face each other, whereby the appropriate electrolyte is passed from said member having said inlet into the anolyte or catholyte compartment formed in the frame and the electrolyzed product is discharged from said anolyte or catholyte compartment into said member having said outlet.

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Yokohama, Japan

Yasuo Sajima