Patent ID: 6503377
Filing Date: 2003-01-07
Classification: C25B

Abstract:
An electrolysis apparatus for producing halogen gases from aqueous alkali, halide solution, having a number of plate-like electrolysis cells which are arranged beside one another in a stack and are in electrical contact and which each have a housing comprising two half-shells of electrically conductive material with external contact strips on at least one housing rear wall, the housing having devices for feeding the electrolysis current and the electrolysis products, and in each case having two essentially flat electrodes (anode and cathode), the anode and cathode being provided with apertures like venetian blinds for the electrolysis starting materials and the electrolysis products to flow through, being separated from one another by a dividing wall and arranged parallel to one another and being electrically conductively connected to the respective associated rear wall of the housing by means of metal reinforcements, wherein the venetian-blind apertures (8B, 9B) of the anode (8) and cathode (9) are arranged at an angle with respect to the horizontal.