Anode useful for electrochemical conversion of anhydrous hydrogen halide to halogen gas

Abstract From the Canadian patent

A particular anode (14) comprising an electrochemically active material selected from the group comprising the oxides of the elements tin, germanium and lead and mixtures comprising at least one of the respective oxides of such elements is useful in an electrochemical cell (10) for the direct production of essentially dry halogen gas from essentially anhydrous halogen halide or in a process for such production, of essentially dry halogen gas. This cell or process may be used to produce halogen gas such as chlorine bromine, fluorine and iodine, from a respective anhydrous hydrogen halide such as hydrogen chloride, hydrogen bromide hydrogen fluoride and hydrogen iodide.