# US 11,306,402 B2 · Device for obtaining electrolysis products from an alkali metal chloride solution

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- Number: US 11,306,402 B2
- Document ID: US11306402B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 16/641,785
- Filed: 2018-08-24
- Published: 2020-08-06
- Granted: 2022-04-19
- Earliest claimed: 2017-08-25
- Assignees: Blue Safety GmbH
- Applicants: Blue Safety GmbH
- Inventors: Vitold Bakhir
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US11306402B2

## CPC

- C25B 1/46: in diaphragm cells
- C02F 1/46104: {Devices therefor; Their operating or servicing}
- C02F 1/4674: {with halogen or compound of halogens, e.g. chlorine, bromine}
- C25B 1/26: Chlorine; Compounds thereof (by simultaneous production of alkali metal hydroxides and chlorine, oxyacids or salts of chlorine C25B1/34)
- C25B 9/19: with diaphragms
- C25B 15/08: Supplying or removing reactants or electrolytes; Regeneration of electrolytes
- C25B 15/081: {Supplying products to non-electrochemical reactors that are combined with the electrochemical cell, e.g. Sabatier reactor}
- C25B 15/083: {Separating products}
- C25B 15/085: {Removing impurities}
- C25B 15/087: {Recycling of electrolyte to electrochemical cell}
- C02F 1/4618: {for producing "ionised" acidic or basic water}
- C02F 2001/46171: {Cylindrical or tubular shaped}
- C02F 2201/46115: Electrolytic cell with membranes or diaphragms
- C02F 2201/46155: Heating or cooling
- C02F 2201/4618: Supplying or removing reactants or electrolyte
- Y02E 60/36: Hydrogen production from non-carbon containing sources, e.g. by water electrolysis
- C25B: ELECTROLYTIC OR ELECTROPHORETIC PROCESSES FOR THE PRODUCTION OF COMPOUNDS OR NON-METALS; APPARATUS THEREFOR (anodic or cathodic protection C23F13/00; single-crystal growth C30B)
- C02F: TREATMENT OF WATER, WASTE WATER, SEWAGE, OR SLUDGE (separation in general B01D; special arrangements on waterborne vessels of installations for treating water, waste water or sewage, e.g. for producing fresh water, B63J; adding materials to water to prevent corrosion C23F; treating radioactively-contaminated liquids G21F9/04; regeneration of reactants for recirculation into processes, see the relevant places for the processes)
- Y02E: REDUCTION OF GREENHOUSE GAS [GHG] EMISSIONS, RELATED TO ENERGY GENERATION, TRANSMISSION OR DISTRIBUTION

## Abstract

Device for obtaining electrolysis products from an alkali metal chloride solution where a cathode circuit contains a circulation pump with an overflow device for the return flow of pump liquid, which continuously secures the forced circulation of the catholyte via a heat exchanger, a cathode compartment and a capacitive separator for separating the hydrogen from the catholyte. In the discharge of the hydrogen from the capacitive separator for separation of the hydrogen from the catholyte, a cooled humidity separator is installed, the condensate collection container of which is connected via a dosage pump with the freshwater feed to the mixing device of the freshwater flow with the gaseous oxidant mixture.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A device for producing an oxidant solution from electrolysis products of an alkali metal chloride solution, the device comprising:
an electrochemical reactor, being represented by one or more modular electrochemical cells, which are hydraulically connected in parallel, and an anode compartment and a cathode compartment of the reactor are separated by a porous, ceramic diaphragm, which is disposed coaxially between the electrodes of the electrochemical cells;
a device for feeding the saline solution under pressure connected with an entrance to the anode compartment;
a device for stabilizing a specified overpressure in the anode compartment, which is connected to an exit of the anode compartment;
a mixing device for mixing gaseous products of the anodic electrochemical reaction with freshwater, the mixing device being connected with the exit of the anode compartment downstream of the device for stabilizing a specified overpressure in the anode compartment;
a catholyte circuit comprising the cathode compartment of the electrochemical reactor, a separator for separating hydrogen from the catholyte, a facility for draining the excess catholyte from a receiving container of the separator, and a heat exchanger for cooling the circulating catholyte; and
a dosage pump for adding the catholyte to the mixing device for mixing gaseous products of the anodic electrochemical reaction with freshwater,
wherein
the catholyte circuit contains a circulation pump with an overflow device for the return flow of the pump liquid, wherein the circulation pump continuously secures the forced circulation of the catholyte via the heat exchanger, the cathode compartment and the separator for separating the hydrogen from the catholyte,
the receiving container of the separator, which is connected to a pump inlet of the circulation pump, is disposed at a lower position than the electrochemical reactor, such that the level of the catholyte in the receiving container of the separator, which is determined by the position of an overflow nozzle of the facility for draining the excess catholyte from the catholyte circuit, lies below an inlet nozzle from the cathode compartment of the electrochemical reactor,
and, in a discharge line of the hydrogen from the separator for separation of the hydrogen from the catholyte, a cooled humidity separator comprising a condensate collection container is installed, wherein the condensate collection container is connected via the dosage pump with the freshwater feed to the mixing device for mixing gaseous products of the anodic electrochemical reaction with the freshwater.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The device according to claim 1, wherein the anode in the electrochemical reactor is provided with a cooling, and is disposed in an open cooling circuit of the elements of the device following the heat exchanger of the humidity separator and upstream of the heat exchanger of the catholyte in the circuit, wherein the water exiting from the cooling circuit is supplied to the mixing device for mixing the gaseous products of the anodic electrochemical reaction with the freshwater.