Hydrazine synthesis in an electrochemical reactor

✍ Scribed by P.L. Spedding; J.D. Thornton

• Book ID: 103005295
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1971
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 803 KB
• Volume: 26
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0009-2509
• DOI: 10.1016/0009-2509(71)80046-5

✦ Synopsis

Hydrazine was synthesised in two types of gas phase electrochemical reactors, an a.c. barrier parallel electrode cross gas flow reactor, and a d.c. parallel electrode-parallel gas flow reactor. Energy yields of up to 5 g/kWhr were achieved. Optimum operating conditions were in the low power density, pressure and gas residence time regions, and with the use of a pulsed discharge of low active residence time. Of the two reactors the parallel electrode-parallel gas flow type gave the better energy yields. Other design criteria were the use of bonded dielectrics and as large a reactor volume as practicable provided that the gap distance did not exceed the Paschen minimum point. The results are consistent with the mechanism of hydrazine being first formed and then degraded in the discharge.