Electrochemistry A Reformulation of the Basic Principles

In this book a presentation of a phenomenological theory of elec­ trochemistry is given. More precisely, it should be stated that only one part of the whole field of electrochemistry is developed. It is the purpose of this treatment to describe the interconnection between the electric current in a c...

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Other Authors: Hertz, H. G. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 1980, 1980
Edition:1st ed. 1980
Series:Lecture Notes in Chemistry
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 8.7 A comparison: The conventional treatment of the galvanic cell
  • 9: Galvanic cells containing only one type of anion (or correspondingly, one type of cation)
  • 9.1 The cell configuration
  • 3.7 A comparison of the use of generalized and conventional transport numbers
  • 4: The moving boundary method
  • 4.1 The experimental determination of transport numbers
  • 4.2 The self-regulating mechanism of the moving boundary
  • 5: The diffusion process at the electrode in the presence of an electric current
  • 5.1 Mass fluxes and excess mass fluxes at a metal electrode
  • 5.2 The Hittorf method to measure transport numbers
  • 5.3 Electrodes of the second kind
  • 5.4 The fluxes at the redox electrode
  • 5.5 Mass production at the liquid junction
  • 6: Energy changes in electrochemical systems
  • 6.1 Rate of internal energy change of a homogeneus system
  • 6.2 Rate of internal energy change in a normal non-uniform system
  • 6.3 Energy and momentum changes in the presence of an electric current
  • 6.4 “Complete” and “truncated” systems
  • 6.5 The reversible electric work and the electromotive force
  • 7: A comparison of our electrolyte diffusion treatment with the conventional one
  • 7.1 A brief summary; Electric current density and mass flux in our theory
  • 7.2 Treatment of the electriccurrent density in the conventional theory
  • 7.3 Transport numbers in the conventional treatment
  • 7.4 The mass flux in the conventional treatment
  • 7.5 Summary of comparison between the two approaches
  • 8: The electromotive force of a galvanic cell
  • 8.1 The cell Na/NaI/KCl/Cl2, some general outlines
  • 8.2 The cell Na/Nal/KCl/Cl2, explicit formulas for the electromotive force
  • 8.3 Consideration of a more general case: The galvanic cell Na/NaCl(a), NaI(a), KCl(a)/NaCl(c), NaI(c), KCl(c)/Cl2
  • 8.4 Coordinate system transformations
  • 8.5 Simplifications by introduction of suitable approximations
  • 8.6 Treatment of the galvanic cell in which the electrolyte has arbitrary composition, but the cathode is an I2-electrode, Na/NaCl(a), NaI(a), KCl(a)/NaCl(c), NaI(c), KCl(c)/I2
  • 1: Description of the multicomponent electrolyte solution in the equilibrium state
  • 1.1 Components, constituents, salt molecules and ions
  • 1.2 Coordinate system transformations
  • 1.3 The chemical potentials
  • 2: The multicomponent electrolyte solution in the non-equilibrium situation
  • 2.1 The local mass conservation in a non-equilibrium system
  • 2.2 Description of the diffusion process in a multicomponent electrolyte solution
  • 2.3 Description of multicomponent electrolyte diffusion in various property spaces
  • 3: The diffusion system in the presence of an electric current
  • 3.1 Local rates of change of composition in the presence of an electric current
  • 3.2 Excess constituent mass fluxes and generalized transport numbers
  • 3.3 The delocalized conservation of mass
  • 3.4 A prototype of a galvanic cell
  • 3.5 The conventional transport numbers
  • 3.6 The fundamental equations of electrochemistry