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Technical Scale of
Electrochemistry
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Klans Juttner
Karl-Winnacker Institute, Dechema ., Frankfurtan Main, Germany
Introduction ...................................... 3
Advantages and Disadvantages of Electrochemical Processes ...... 4
Electrochemical Reaction Engineering ..................... 5
Fundamentals ..................................... 6
Current Efficiency .................................. 7
Space-time Yield ................................... 8
Electrochemical Thermodynamics ....................... 8
Energy Yield ...................................... 11
Specific Electrical Energy Consumption .................... 12
Electrochemical Cell Design ........................... 12
References ....................................... 19
Encyclopedia of Electrochemistry. Edited by . Bard and M. Stratmann
Vol. 5 Electrochemical Engineering. Edited by Digby D. Macdonald and Patrik Schmuki
Copyright 2007 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim. ISBN: 978-3-527-30397-7
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engineer. Electrochemical engineering has
Introduction e an established discipline of its
own, which deals with the description and
optimization of electrochemical processes
From an academic point of view, electro- based on the fundamental laws of chem-
chemistry has e a written chapter istry and electrochemistry. Essentially, it
in science history, manifested, for ex- is an interdisciplinary field, which came
ample, by the Nernst equation or the up in the 1960s after the development
Butler–Volmer equation, to mention a of chemical engineering, providing the
few of the mon relations. The tools of unit operations for the systematic
interest of the munity in description and treatment of chemical pro-
electrochemistry as a discipline of funda- cesses in a way that linked the underlying
mental importance has gradually declined physical and physicochemical principles to
in recent years. Electrochemis