Abstract
Abstract The behaviour of the electrode and the formation of chlorine were studied practically for porous graphite used in the industrial electrolysis of an aqueous NaCl solution only. In this investigation this was done for Acheson graphite electrodes and for highly orientated pyrolytic graphite electrodes of which the edge plane or the basal plane served as electrode surface. Voltammograms were determined by continuous scanning with different rates of the potential between a minimum and maximum value. From the experimental results it follows that two different surface compounds, the lp oxygen and the hp oxygen are formed on all the graphite electrodes investigated. In the stationary state lp oxygen is present at low potential and the hp oxygen at high potentials. The formation and the removal of each compound depends on the electrolytic conditions, especially on the maximum potential of the sweep. The conditions of the sweep determine whether these oxides are really present on the electrode surface during the anodic or the cathodic sweep. Chlorine is formed according to the Volmer-Heyrovsky mechanism on all the three types of electrodes. The current density, the transfer coefficient and the activation energy for the edge plane electrode and the Acheson graphite electrode are of the same order of magnitude, while for the basal plane electrode they deviate strongly.
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