Excellent Performance And Wide Application Of Titanium Electrodes

Since its inception, titanium electrodes have quickly been widely used in many electrolysis industries due to their excellent performance. Compared with traditional electrodes (such as graphite anodes and lead anodes), titanium electrodes (usually titanium-based coated electrodes) have the following significant advantages:

1. High Dimensional Stability:

The size of the anode is almost unchanged during the electrolysis process, and the electrode spacing is stable to ensure that the electrolysis operation is carried out under the condition of constant tank voltage.

2. Low Working Voltage and the Significant Energy Saving:

It can effectively reduce the power consumption, and the DC power consumption can usually be reduced by 10%-20%.

3. Long Service Life:

Excellent corrosion resistance.For example, in the diaphragm chlor-alkali industry, its life span can reach more than 6 years, which is much higher than that of graphite anodes (about 8 months).

4. No Dissolved Pollution:

The dissolution problem of graphite anode and lead anode is overcome, the pollution of electrolyte and cathode products is avoided, and the purity of metal products is significantly improved.

5. Adapt To High Current Density:

It is particularly suitable for efficient electrolysis under high operating current density conditions.

6. Improve Product Quality (Alkali Industry):

When used in chlor-alkali production, the resulting product (such as caustic soda) has a high concentration and high purity of chlorine gas (without CO₂), while saving energy.

7. Strong Corrosion Resistance:

It can work stably in a variety of highly corrosive electrolytes with special requirements.

8. Avoid The Risk Of Short Circuit:

It solves the problem of short circuit caused by the easy deformation of the lead anode, which helps to improve the current efficiency.

9. Light Weight:

Greatly reduce the labor intensity of operators.

10. Support High Temperature And High Current Density Operation:

It makes it possible for the electrolytic cell to operate stably at high temperature and high current density.

11. Low Overpotential, Easy To Exclude Air Bubbles:

The low overpotential characteristics and the easy elimination of air bubbles on the electrode surface are the key factors in reducing the voltage of the metal anode electrolytic cell.

Application Areas:

Titanium electrodes are mainly used in the two major industrial sectors of electrochemistry and electrometallurgy, and their application industries and fields are extremely wide, including but not limited to:

1. Chemical Industry: chlor-alkali industry, aluminate production, organic electrosynthesis.

2. Energy and Environmental Protection: hydrogen/oxygen production by water electrolysis, sewage treatment, desalination of seawater/brackish water by electrodialysis, disinfection of industrial water and domestic water treatment, cleaning and disinfection of food utensils.

3. Surface Treatment: steel plate galvanized, chrome-plated, ruthenium-plated and other electroplating processes.

4. Other Fields: battery production, cathodic protection (such as sacrificial anode), titanium-based metal oxide coating preparation, etc.

With its comprehensive advantages of high stability, long life, high efficiency, low energy consumption, no pollution and excellent corrosion resistance, titanium electrodes have become an indispensable key material for the modern electrolysis industry, promoting the technological progress and green development of related industries.