Calculation of Electrolytic Cells with the Flow Behavior of Stationary Continuous Stirred Tank Reactors.

In some cases electrochemical reactors can be described as stationary continuously operating tank reactors. On the basis of the material balance equations of a single cell and of one reactor cascade, the equations for simple electrochemical reactions according to important parameters, like current efficiency and conversion rate, are derived. For more complicated reactions, where mainly experimental data of the current efficiency-concentration curves have to be considered, a graphic method for calculation of the reactor cascade is given and explained in an example.