Electrochemical production of alkali metal from an alkali metal amalgam

US6409908B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• BASF SE

Inventors

• Günther Huber · Munich, DE
• Hermann Putter · Neustadt, DE
• Kerstin Schierle-Arndt · Zwingenberg, DE
• Dieter Schlafer · Ludwigshafen, DE
• Josef Guth · Freinsheim, DE
• Bernd Schube · Mutterstadt, DE
• Diethard Lenz · Frankenthal (Pfalz), DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 13, 1999
• Grant date: Jun 25, 2002
• Expiry date: Dec 13, 2019

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C25C3/02
• WIPO field: Surface technology, coating
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

In a process for producing an alkali metal from alkali metal amalgam by electrolysis using an alkali metal amalgam as anode, a solid electrolyte which conducts alkali metal ions and a liquid alkali metal as cathode, the alkali metal amalgam as anode is kept in motion.