Patent · US Expired

Method and device for breaking a disperse system in an electrochemical cell

US4927511A · kind A · utility

10Cited by

3References

11Claims

0Family size

Assignee

Battelle Institute e.V. · DE

Inventors

Volker Friehmelt · Mellrichstadt, DE
Bernhard Maier · Linz, AT
Alfons Kohling
Rolf-Eberhard Schmitt · Nackenheim, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Nov 16, 1988
Grant date	May 22, 1990
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Nov 16, 2008

Classification

Technology area (CPC C)Chemistry; Metallurgy
CPC primaryC02F1/463
WIPO fieldChemical engineering
WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

A method and a device for breaking an aqueous emulsion, wherein the emulsion flows through an electrochemical cell in which the small emulsified droplets combine in or on a working electrode to form larger separable droplets. The method can be applied in particular to the breaking of an oil-in-water emulsion.

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Objective bibliographic and citation counts.