Opinions on Electrodes in Electrolytic Cell

[Picture 3: Tyent’s electrode]

[Picture 4: Tyent’s Cross Mesh Technology - Two electrodes overlapped]

Based on Michael Faraday’s laws of electrochemistry, all of TyentUSA’s plates are designed to work with each other to enhance the electrolysis process. This method of creating plates is a patented technology and is the next generation of mesh technology.  All of our competitors use thin pieces of screen to create electrolysis with their so called mesh technology.  The screen technology is not capable of creating the electrolysis that our patented cross mesh technology can accomplish.  Please read below to understand why we created our plates this way, and why they are larger, more advanced, and more effective than every other plate on the market today.  We have set the standard for the next generation of mesh technology.

Followings are the laws of electrolysis.

The followings are the laws on the quantitative relationship between the mass of electric charge (electric current x time) and the mass produced by chemical reaction. Michael Faraday published these basic laws in electrochemistry in 1883. The 1^st Law of Electrolysis: the mass of a substance produced at an electrode during electrolysis is directly proportional to the number of electrons (the quantity of electricity) transferred at that electrode. That means the mass of a substance proportionally increases along with the increases in the number of electric currents.

The 2^nd Law of Electrolysis: irrespective of the kind of substance, the mass of a substance produced by the same number of electrons is in proportion to the equivalence of the substance. That means the quantity of electricity required to discharge one mole of substance during electrolysis becomes constantly 96,485.3383C, irrespective of the kind of substance. The mass of a substance produced by the 1^st law is in proportion to the quantity of electric current multiplied by time. As the electrons supplied discharge ions in the electrolyte, the quantity of substance produced is proportional to the valence number. And with the valence number being the quantity of electrons required during its process to become ions, the mass of substance produced is in inverse proportion to the valence number. The quantity of electric charge required to produce one gram equivalent of substance during electrolysis is called Faraday’s constant. Usually it is indicated as F, with F being = 96,485.3383C/mol e^-. This law first showed the tiniest unit also exists in the atomic structures and electricity (basic quantity of electric charge). One F equals the quantity of the basic electric charge (1.602×10^-19C/e^-) of electrons multiplied by Avogadro’s number (6.02×10²³ mol^-1). The quantity of substance produced by 1 C of electric charge is 1.118mg of silver, and 0.010446mg of hydrogen gas, and the quantity of substance by 1 C of electricity is called electrochemical equivalent.

According to the above Faraday’s 1^st law, the level of electrolysis continues to increase as the quantity of electric current in the electrolytic cell increases or the time of electrolysis lengthens due to the decreased quantity (speed) of the solution in the cell.

While the kind and number of electrodes, distances between them, and the volume of the electrolytic cell are considered in the usual comparison of electrolytic cells, Faraday’s 1^st law shows we may have to look for the suitable ways to supply more electric currents in case the quantity (speed) of the solution and voltage of electricity supplied are kept to a fixed level.

Methods to supply more electric currents into the electrolytic cell

** Heighten the voltage of electricity supplied

** Adjust the distances between the electrodes

** Enlarge the cross section of the electrodes

** Increase the number of the electrodes

1) Heightening Voltage:

- To be excluded as the above-mentioned condition prescribed the voltage remains the same.

2) Adjusting Electrode Distances:

- Although shorter distances between the electrodes can enable electric currents to flow better, a certain level of distance between them is required as it makes the solution speed faster and this goes against Faraday’s 1^st law of electrolysis.

3) Enlarging the Cross Section:

- With electrodes being the same, electric current is usually proportional to the area of the electrodes, and voltage proportional to the number of poles.

4) Increase Electrodes:

- As voltage is proportionate to electric currents, increased number of electrodes decreases the flow of electric currents per electrode cell, lowering the electrolytic capacity. In this case higher voltage enough to make the electric currents per electrode cell as before is required to get the effect of an increased number of electrodes.

Adding to the above four methods, plating or coating that covers titanium electrode plates with platinum can be an effective way depending on how evenly and extensively the plating or coating covers the surface area, and coating is usually deemed to be a better choice.

Due to the nature of electricity, more electric charges gather on sharp things rather than on blunt ones, producing more electric fields and making electric currents better flow. Mesh electrodes can better send electric currents than plate electrode as the former have more sharp areas. Utilizing this electrolytic cell technology, our company has improved electric efficiency by applying the Cross Mesh technology [Picture 3].