Efficient Reduction of Carbon Tetrachloride in an Electrochemical Reactor with a Three-Dimensional Electrode

Autor: Víctor M. Molina, Esteban Moreno-Toral, Antonio Ramos-Carrillo
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: Eng, Vol 5, Iss 2, Pp 983-991 (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2673-4117
DOI: 10.3390/eng5020054
Popis: A selective electrochemical synthesis of chloroform from carbon tetrachloride (CT) in a laboratory-scale electrochemical reactor using a carbon felt three-dimensional electrode is studied. The characterization of the electrochemical reactor from the point of view of material transport was carried out, obtaining good correlations both in the adjustment to a simple bath reactor model and the adjustment to a piston-flow model, and the operating parameters were obtained, such as the material transport coefficient or the limiting intensity. The galvanostatic electrolysis of CT in the filter-press reactor obtained good values for current efficiency and selectivity, so that only hydrogen was obtained as a by-product. With respect to the use of flat electrodes, the three-dimensional carbon felt electrode improves the results in all the studied parameters under identical experimental conditions.
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