Patent ID: 7828941
Filing Date: 2010-11-09
Classification: C25B

Abstract:
1. A distributing element suitable for insertion between the anodic and the cathodic flange of an electrolytic cell equipped with a hydrogen-evolving cathode and a chlorine-evolving anode thereby allowing the utilization of the electrolytic cell as a depolarised electrolysis cell, comprising an external upper electrolyte feeding manifold and an internal part, which internal part consists of: one gas-diffusion electrode fed with a gas flow as the cathode of the cell at least one planar frame having a single recess, at the terminal part thereof and at least one percolator contacted with the gas-diffusion electrode, the peripheral part of the percolator being housed in said recess wherein an ion-exchange membrane is interposed between sais percolator and the anode of the electrochemical cell, both said percolator and the anode being contacted with the ion-exchange membrane.