I came across it mid-2002 or so and since then I've been working on it, trying to understand it so that I can improve it. This technique beats every other competing technique currently in existence in terms of simplicity and is what I call the caustic soda machine of the future. Its so simple that even a youngster can set it up and have it running in a few minutes. It uses no specially designed or constructed material like asbestos or cation exchange membrane or mercury. The cell materials are cheap and readily available and the raw materials are: anolytic brine and catholytic NaOH.
In an hour, a very crude, laboratory version of the technology increased the concentration of about 50-70 ml of soda by 1.027mol/L...from 9.970 mol/L to 10.997mol/L. Despite errors in the experiment, sodium chloride impurities remained at trace levels undetected by direct electrolysis of the product. The applied voltage was about 11-12 volts and the current was between 1.2 and 1.4 amperes. The electrodes are not unusual also..I used carbon rods for both the cathode and the anode. Though I've not checked, but the current efficiency should not be too bad also. As my lab-tests come to an end on this simple, fundamental but extremely powerful invention, it is time for the invention to go to mainstream industry.
What makes the technology all the more interesting is that it may lend itself as a tool that may be useful in understanding how electric charges behave in electrolytic solutions, being a novel approach to preparing the highly valued chemical.
I wish I could go into detail about this technology here, but I cant because its not yet patented. So, till then, this is all I can reveal.
In an hour, a very crude, laboratory version of the technology increased the concentration of about 50-70 ml of soda by 1.027mol/L...from 9.970 mol/L to 10.997mol/L. Despite errors in the experiment, sodium chloride impurities remained at trace levels undetected by direct electrolysis of the product. The applied voltage was about 11-12 volts and the current was between 1.2 and 1.4 amperes. The electrodes are not unusual also..I used carbon rods for both the cathode and the anode. Though I've not checked, but the current efficiency should not be too bad also. As my lab-tests come to an end on this simple, fundamental but extremely powerful invention, it is time for the invention to go to mainstream industry.
What makes the technology all the more interesting is that it may lend itself as a tool that may be useful in understanding how electric charges behave in electrolytic solutions, being a novel approach to preparing the highly valued chemical.
I wish I could go into detail about this technology here, but I cant because its not yet patented. So, till then, this is all I can reveal.
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about the caustic soda invention, i still insist you make an attempt to travel to the US or UK to get the work patented.
Will do my best on that score, thanks!
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