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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 08, 1981
Filed:
Apr. 30, 1979
Fritz G Will, Schenectady, NY (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
An electrode boiler has a pair of boiler electrodes defining a volume therebetween to be filled with electrolyte to be heated by electrical current passage between the electrodes through the electrolyte. A porous insulating matrix is confined by a pair of porous insulating support walls between but spaced apart from said electrodes in the volume occupied by said electrolyte. The space between said walls is filled with a plurality of insulating members, thereby providing paths exhibiting increased resistance to electrical current flow relative to the electrical resistance of the electrolyte located between said electrodes and said support walls in the direction perpendicular to said support walls. The insulating members may comprise spheres, pellets or cylindrical rods or tubes made of glass, polymeric material, ceramics or the like. The space between each electrode and the respective juxtaposed support wall is free of insulating members and forms a zone of considerably lower resistance which reduces steam formation and arcing at the electrode surface.