Reaction Engineering and Digital Simulation in Electrochemical Processes

Abstract

Recent developments in electrochemistry have featured a number of techniques used as methods of investigation and analysis and in a wide range of production applications. The diversification of research applications is driven by an increasing need for selective, energy-efficient, nonpolluting, clean processes. Table 1 illustrates some of the trends in applied and fundamental electrochemical research. There is a strong emphasis on the generation of new electrocatalysts, the application of new solvent/electrolyte systems and the study of new reaction systems and appropriate kinetics. The study of kinetics, in which many established steady-state and dynamic methods of electrochemical analysis are applied, is becoming increasingly augmented by newer techniques which can give information about the electrode/electrolyte interface at the molecular level. Application of both classes of methods will enable the principles of electrochemical analysis and reactor design to be more firmly established, removing a large degree of empiricism often associated with this area.KeywordsDiffusion LayerMass Transfer CoefficientReaction LayerPlug FlowContinuous Stir Tank ReactorThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.