Modelling current efficiency in an electrochemical hypochlorite reactor

Chemical Engineering Research and Design

Volumn 93, Issue , 2015, Pages 591-601

  Spasojevic M ^a   Krstajic N ^b   Spasojevic P ^b   Ribic Zelenovic L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KRAGUJEVAC   (Serbia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Current efficiency; Hypochlorite; Limiting diffusion current; Mathematical model

Indexed keywords

ALKALINITY; CURRENT DENSITY; DIFFUSION; EFFICIENCY; ELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; ELECTRODES; ELECTROLYSIS; FLUIDIZED BED COMBUSTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OXIDATION;

ALKALINE ENVIRONMENT; ANODIC CURRENT DENSITY; CATHODIC CURRENT DENSITY; CURRENT EFFICIENCY; HYPOCHLORITE; HYPOCHLORITE SOLUTIONS; LIMITING DIFFUSION CURRENT; SODIUM CHLORIDE SOLUTION;

ANODIC OXIDATION;

EID: 84920756042     PISSN: 02638762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cherd.2014.07.025     Document Type: Article

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