Electrolyzer

US5833821A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Dornier GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Ottmar Schmid · Markdorf, DE
• Werner Tillmetz · Gettorf, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 2, 1996
• Grant date: Nov 10, 1998
• Expiry date: Dec 2, 2016

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02E60/36
• WIPO field: Surface technology, coating
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

An electrolyzer has an educt chamber, a membrane, a cathode-side product chamber, a porous cathode, a diaphragm, a porous anode, in which case a liquid electrolyte can be fixed in the pores of the anode and the cathode, and an anode-side product chamber. Between the membrane and the cathode-side product chamber, a first electrically conductive plate and, adjacent to the anode-side product gas chamber, a second electrically conductive plate, are situated. The two conductive plates are used for the current supply to and the current removal from the electrodes.