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CN113913851B - Bipolar membrane electrolysis method for preparing carbon monoxide by electrolyzing carbon dioxide in organic electrolyte and simultaneously by-producing chlorine and metal hydroxide - Google Patents

Bipolar membrane electrolysis method for preparing carbon monoxide by electrolyzing carbon dioxide in organic electrolyte and simultaneously by-producing chlorine and metal hydroxide Download PDF

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CN113913851B CN202111348680.2A CN202111348680A CN113913851B CN 113913851 B CN113913851 B CN 113913851B CN 202111348680 A CN202111348680 A CN 202111348680A CN 113913851 B CN113913851 B CN 113913851B
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The invention relates to a bipolar membrane electrolysis method for preparing carbon monoxide by electrolyzing carbon dioxide in an organic electrolyte and simultaneously preparing by-products of chlorine and metal hydroxide, belonging to the technical field of phosgene chemical industry. The bipolar membrane and the cation exchange membrane are used for dividing the electrolytic cell into a cathode chamber, an intermediate chamber and an anode chamber to form a three-compartment electrolytic cell, the electrolyte in the cathode chamber is an organic composite electrolyte dissolved with a large amount of carbon dioxide, the electrolyte in the intermediate chamber is a metal hydroxide aqueous solution, the electrolyte in the anode chamber is a metal chloride aqueous solution, carbon monoxide is generated on the cathode and chlorine is generated on the anode in the electrolytic reaction process, and the content of the metal hydroxide in the intermediate chamber is increased. The method provided by the invention can synchronously produce carbon monoxide, chlorine and metal hydroxide under the conditions of normal temperature and normal pressure, and has the advantages of short process flow, simple operation method, low production cost, small occupied area of equipment, easiness in starting and stopping, greenness, no pollution and the like.

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Bipolar membrane electrolysis method for preparing carbon monoxide by electrolyzing carbon dioxide in organic electrolyte and simultaneously by-producing chlorine and metal hydroxide
Technical Field
The invention relates to a bipolar membrane electrolysis method for preparing carbon monoxide by electrolyzing carbon dioxide in an organic electrolyte, and simultaneously preparing by-products of chlorine and metal hydroxide, belonging to the technical field of phosgene chemical industry.
Background
Phosgene is an important acylating agent and can be used for preparing high-added-value products such as medicines, pesticides, dyes and the like. Currently, phosgene (CO+Cl) is industrially produced mainly by using carbon monoxide and chlorine as raw materials 2 =COCl 2 ) The method has the defects of long process flow, large equipment occupation area, complex operation method, high production cost and the like.
The electroreduction of carbon dioxide to carbon monoxide, the synthesis of downstream products (including phosgene), is one of the important technological approaches to realize the recycling of carbon resources. The traditional method mainly comprises the steps of electrically reducing carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide in an aqueous solution, wherein an anode reaction is an oxidation reaction of water, and a product is oxygen. The method has a research history of over 100 years, has not been applied to industrialization so far, and has the main problems that: first, carbon dioxide is a nonpolar molecule, has very small solubility in aqueous solution, and only 0.033mol/L under standard conditions, so that the current density of the cathode reaction is too low; secondly, when carbon monoxide is prepared by electrolyzing carbon dioxide in aqueous solution, in order to improve the conductivity of the electrolyte, an inorganic supporting electrolyte is required to be added into the electrolyte, so that some inorganic impurities are inevitably brought into the electrolyte, wherein some impurities undergo electrodeposition reaction on the surface of a cathode to form surface active points with low hydrogen evolution overpotential, so that the speed of the hydrogen evolution reaction is increased, and the electrocatalytic activity of an electrode material on the carbon dioxide electroreduction reaction is reduced; thirdly, when carbon dioxide is electrolyzed in an aqueous solution to prepare carbon monoxide, a small amount of carbon dioxide is deeply reduced due to a specific electrode/electrolyte interface environment to generate amorphous carbon which is attached to the surface of a cathode, so that the current efficiency of generating the carbon monoxide is rapidly reduced to zero; fourth, the cathode reaction product is carbon monoxide and the anode reaction product is oxygen, and the carbon monoxide can be prepared from coal gas, the oxygen can be prepared from air separation, and the production cost of the latter two methods is very low, so that the production cost of carbon monoxide prepared by carbon dioxide electrolysis is too high, and the method is not economically viable.
Disclosure of Invention
In order to solve the problems and the defects of the prior art, the invention provides a bipolar membrane electrolysis method for preparing carbon monoxide by electrolyzing carbon dioxide in an organic electrolyte and simultaneously preparing by-products of chlorine and metal hydroxide. The invention is realized by the following technical scheme.
The bipolar membrane and the cation exchange membrane are used for dividing the electrolytic cell into a cathode chamber, an intermediate chamber and an anode chamber to form a three-compartment electrolytic cell, the electrolyte in the cathode chamber is an organic composite electrolyte dissolved with a large amount of carbon dioxide, the electrolyte in the intermediate chamber is a metal hydroxide aqueous solution, the electrolyte in the anode chamber is a metal chloride aqueous solution, carbon monoxide is generated on the cathode and chlorine is generated on the anode in the electrolytic reaction process, and the content of the metal hydroxide in the intermediate chamber is increased.
The anion permeable layer in the bipolar membrane is one of an imidazole polyether ether ketone anion permeable layer, a styrene/ethylene benzyl chloride copolymer anion permeable layer containing diamine, a quaternized polyethylene anion permeable layer, a quaternized polyvinyl chloride anion permeable layer, a quaternized polyphenyl ether anion permeable layer, a polysulfone anion permeable layer containing bicyclic amine, a quaternized styrene/divinylbenzene copolymer anion permeable layer and a perfluoropolymer anion permeable layer containing quaternary amine and secondary amine, and the thickness of the anion permeable layer is 15-300 micrometers; the cation permeation layer in the bipolar membrane is one of a sulfonated polyethylene cation permeation layer, a sulfonated polystyrene cation permeation layer, a sulfonated polyether-ether-ketone cation permeation layer, a sulfonated polyvinylidene fluoride cation permeation layer and a perfluorinated sulfonic acid type cation permeation layer, the thickness is 15-300 microns, and a water dissociation catalyst is introduced into the interface area of the cation permeation layer and the anion permeation layer, wherein the water dissociation catalyst is one or a mixture of any proportion of a plurality of polyvinyl acid/polyvinyl pyridinium complex, sulfonated polyether-ether-ketone, chromium hydroxide, zirconium oxide, aluminosilicate, chromium trioxide, nickel oxide, aluminum hydroxide, tin oxide, ferric hydroxide, manganese dioxide, iridium dioxide, titanium dioxide, silicon dioxide, indium trioxide, cobalt trioxide, bismuth, tin, ruthenium, rhodium, palladium, osmium, iridium and platinum.
The cation exchange membrane is one of a sulfonated polyethylene cation exchange membrane, a sulfonated polystyrene cation exchange membrane, a sulfonated polyvinylidene fluoride cation exchange membrane, a chlorosulfonated polyethylene cation exchange membrane and a perfluorosulfonic acid cation exchange membrane.
The organic composite electrolyte in the cathode chamber electrolyte comprises three functional components: the organic solvent is one of dimethyl sulfoxide, N-dimethylformamide, propylene carbonate, N-methylpyrrolidone, diethyl carbonate and acetonitrile or a mixed solvent formed by the solvents according to any proportion, the organic supporting electrolyte is one of quaternary ammonium salt and choline chloride or a mixture of the two supporting electrolytes according to any proportion, and the homogeneous electrocatalyst is one of metalloporphyrin compound, metal phthalocyanine compound, tricarbonyl-2, 2' -bipyridine metal halide, imidazole ionic liquid and pyridine ionic liquid or a mixture formed by the homogeneous electrocatalyst according to any proportion.
The quaternary ammonium salt as the organic supporting electrolyte in the organic composite electrolyte has the chemical structural formula:
R 1 、R 2 、R 3 、R 4 Is C 1 -C 5 Hydrocarbon chain of X - Is CF (CF) 3 SO 3 - 、ClO 4 - 、(CF 3 SO 2 ) 2 N - 、CF 3 COO - 、H 2 PO 4 - 、HCO 3 - 、Cl - 、HSO 4 - 、Br - 、I - Any one of the following.
Metalloporphyrin compound as homogeneous electrocatalyst in organic composite electrolyte, its chemical structural formula is:
M 1 is any one of iron, cobalt and nickel, R 1 、R 2 、R 3 、R 4 Is a hydrogen atom or C 1 -C 5 Or a benzene substituent.
The metal phthalocyanine compound used as the homogeneous electrocatalyst in the organic composite electrolyte has the chemical structural formula as follows:
M 2 iron, manganese, copper or nickel.
Tricarbonyl-2, 2' -bipyridine metal halides as organic homogeneous electrocatalysts in organic composite electrolytes have the chemical structural formula:
M 3 is manganese or rhenium, X is Cl, br or I, R 1 、R 2 Is a hydrogen atom or C 1 -C 5 Is a hydrocarbon chain of (2).
The imidazole ionic liquid used as the homogeneous electrocatalyst in the organic composite electrolyte has the chemical structural formula:
R 1 、R 2 is C 1 -C 5 Is a hydrocarbon chain of (2); m, N is connected toA hydrogen atom or a functional group on a hydrocarbon chain, the functional group being: -CN, -NH 2 or-OH; x is X - For (CF) 3 SO 2 ) 2 N - 、CF 3 COO - 、CF 3 SO 3 - 、HCO 3 - 、HSO 4 - 、H 2 PO 4 - 、Br - 、Cl - Any one of the following.
The structural formula of the pyridine ionic liquid serving as the homogeneous electrocatalyst in the organic composite electrolyte is as follows:
wherein R is C 1 -C 5 M is a functional group or a hydrogen atom attached to the hydrocarbon chain, the functional group being: -NH 2 -CN or-OH; x is X - Is CF (CF) 3 SO 3 - 、CF 3 COO - 、(CF 3 SO 2 ) 2 N - 、HCO 3 - 、H 2 PO 4 - 、HSO 4 - 、Cl - 、Br - 、I - Any one of the following.
The anode of the three-compartment electrolytic cell is an iridium oxide coating titanium electrode and IrO 2 ·Ta 2 O 5 The anode chamber electrolyte is a metal chloride aqueous solution, and is a mixture aqueous solution formed by one or any proportion of sodium chloride, potassium chloride, lithium chloride and barium chloride.
As shown in fig. 1, the specific operation steps are as follows:
dividing an electrolytic cell into a cathode chamber, an intermediate chamber and an anode chamber by using a bipolar membrane 4 and a cation exchange membrane 6 to form a three-compartment electrolytic cell, respectively placing a cathode 2 and an anode 8 in the cathode chamber and the anode chamber, and adding water (intermediate chamber electrolyte 5) into the intermediate chamber;
dissolving an organic supporting electrolyte into an organic solvent to prepare an organic electrolyte with the concentration of 0.1-4.0 mol/L, adding a homogeneous electrocatalyst into the obtained organic electrolyte to enable the concentration of the homogeneous electrocatalyst to reach 0.01-0.4 mol/L, obtaining an organic composite electrolyte, and preparing a metal chloride aqueous solution (anode electrolyte 7) with the mass percent concentration of 10% -25%;
dissolving carbon dioxide into an organic composite electrolyte (catholyte 3) in a gas absorption tower 1, continuously injecting the organic composite electrolyte containing a large amount of carbon dioxide into the bottom of a cathode chamber, flowing the organic composite electrolyte containing lower concentration carbon dioxide at the upper part of the cathode chamber out of the upper part of the cathode chamber, and sending the organic composite electrolyte containing lower concentration carbon dioxide into the gas absorption tower 1 again for dissolving and absorbing carbon dioxide, wherein the obtained organic composite electrolyte containing a large amount of carbon dioxide is injected into the bottom of the cathode chamber of the three-compartment electrolytic cell again, so that catholyte circulation is formed; continuously injecting metal chloride aqueous solution into the anode chamber, enabling the aqueous solution containing the metal chloride with lower concentration at the upper part of the anode chamber to flow out of the upper part of the anode chamber, supplementing the metal chloride and water, then injecting the solution into the anode chamber, continuously injecting water into the middle chamber, and evaporating and separating the solution flowing out of the middle chamber to obtain metal hydroxide;
Step four, switching on an electrolysis power supply at normal temperature and normal pressure, controlling the voltage of a tank to be 5.2-9.6V, and enabling chloride ions in an anode chamber to undergo oxidation reaction on an anode to generate chlorine; the metal ions in the anode chamber pass through the cation exchange membrane and enter the middle chamber to meet hydroxide ions generated by the hydrolysis and dissociation of the bipolar membrane, so as to generate metal hydroxide; the carbon dioxide is subjected to electroreduction reaction on the cathode to generate carbon monoxide and carbonate, the carbonate reacts with hydrogen ions generated by the hydrolysis of the bipolar membrane to generate carbon dioxide and water, and the generated carbon monoxide and chlorine are respectively stored in the gas storage tank.
The chlorine gas generated by the anode reaction and the carbon monoxide generated by the cathode reaction can be independently used as chemical raw materials, and can be mixed for producing phosgene, and the solution flowing out of the middle chamber is evaporated and separated to obtain metal hydroxide.
The beneficial effects of the invention are as follows:
(1) At present, the industrial production mainly adopts carbon monoxide and chlorine as raw materials to produce phosgene (CO+Cl) 2 =COCl 2 ) The method has the advantages of short process flow, simple operation method, low production cost, small occupied area of equipment, easy start and stop, greenness, no pollution and the like.
(2) The electroreduction of carbon dioxide to carbon monoxide, the synthesis of downstream products (including phosgene), is one of the important technological approaches to realize the recycling of carbon resources. In the traditional method, carbon dioxide is electrolyzed in aqueous solution to prepare carbon monoxide, the anode reaction is oxidation reaction of water, and the product is oxygen. The method has a research history of over 100 years, and cannot realize industrial application until now, and has the main problems that: firstly, carbon dioxide is a nonpolar molecule, the solubility in aqueous solution is very small, and only 0.033mol/L is required in a standard state, so that the current density of cathode reaction is too low, and the carbon dioxide is electrically reduced into carbon monoxide by utilizing a gas diffusion electrode, so that the key technical barriers of the traditional technology cannot be fundamentally solved due to the reasons of electrode flooding, electrode salt formation, electrode inactivation and the like; secondly, when carbon monoxide is prepared by electrolyzing carbon dioxide in aqueous solution, in order to improve the conductivity of the electrolyte, inorganic supporting electrolyte is added into the electrolyte, so that some inorganic impurities are inevitably brought into the electrolyte, wherein some impurities generate electrodeposition reaction on the surface of a cathode to form surface active points with low hydrogen evolution overpotential, so that the speed of the hydrogen evolution reaction of the cathode is increased, and meanwhile, the catalytic activity of an electrode material on the carbon dioxide electroreduction reaction is reduced; thirdly, when carbon dioxide is electrolyzed in an aqueous solution to prepare carbon monoxide, a small amount of carbon dioxide is deeply reduced due to a specific electrode/electrolyte interface environment to generate amorphous carbon, and the amorphous carbon is attached to the surface of a cathode, so that the cathode is poisoned, and the current efficiency for generating the carbon monoxide is rapidly reduced to zero; fourth, the cathode reaction product is carbon monoxide and the anode reaction product is oxygen, and the carbon monoxide can be prepared from coal gas, the oxygen can be prepared from air separation, and the production cost of the latter two methods is very low, so that the production cost of carbon monoxide prepared by carbon dioxide electrolysis is too high, and the method is not economically viable.
The method provided by the invention can electrolyze carbon dioxide in organic electrolyte to prepare carbon monoxide, and simultaneously byproducts chlorine and metal hydroxide, and compared with the traditional method for preparing carbon monoxide by electrolyzing carbon dioxide, the method provided by the invention has the following advantages: first, carbon dioxide is a nonpolar molecule and has good solubility in organic electrolyte, so that the current density and current efficiency of the reaction can be improved by electrolyzing carbon dioxide to prepare carbon monoxide in the organic electrolyte; the second, organic electrolyte is totally different from the aqueous solution in composition, so, the electrode deactivation problem caused by electrolyte impurity is solved; thirdly, carbon monoxide is prepared by electrolyzing carbon dioxide in an organic electrolyte, and the problem of electrode poisoning is solved because the structure of an electric double layer on the surface of an electrode is fundamentally changed; fourth, the bipolar membrane electrolytic method provided by the invention can be used for electrically reducing carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide, and simultaneously byproducts of chlorine and metal hydroxide, wherein the obtained carbon monoxide and the obtained chlorine can be used for producing phosgene, and can also be independently used as chemical raw materials, and the obtained metal hydroxide is an important basic chemical raw material, so that the additional value of the product can be greatly improved by using the method provided by the patent. Fifth, the method provided by the invention can continuously and stably electrolyze carbon dioxide to prepare carbon monoxide through the circulation of the catholyte; sixth, the bipolar membrane electrolytic cell provided by the invention can improve the efficiency and yield of electrolytic reaction by increasing the number of the repeated units of the electrolytic cell and enlarging the electrode area.
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FIG. 1 is a schematic view of the structure of an electrolytic cell of the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a schematic view of an electrolytic cell according to example 1 of the present invention.
In the figure: 1-gas absorption tower, 2-cathode, 3-catholyte, 4-bipolar membrane, 5-intermediate chamber electrolyte, 6-cation exchange membrane, 7-anolyte and 8-anode.
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Example 1
A bipolar membrane electrolysis method for preparing carbon monoxide by electrolyzing carbon dioxide in an organic electrolyte and simultaneously preparing chlorine and metal hydroxide as byproducts comprises the following specific operation steps:
the first step is to divide the electrolytic cell into a cathode chamber, an intermediate chamber and an anode chamber by using a bipolar membrane and a perfluorinated sulfonic acid type cation exchange membrane, wherein an Au electrode is arranged in the cathode chamber as a cathode, an iridium oxide coating titanium electrode is arranged in the anode chamber as an anode, and water is added in the intermediate chamber. The anion permeation layer of the bipolar membrane is an imidazole polyether ether ketone anion permeation layer with the thickness of 200 microns, the cation permeation layer is a perfluorinated sulfonic acid cation permeation layer with the thickness of 150 microns, and titanium oxide/nickel oxide nano particles are introduced into the interface area of the cation permeation layer and the anion permeation layer to serve as a water dissociation catalyst.
Dissolving tetrabutylammonium perchlorate into propylene carbonate to obtain an organic electrolyte with the concentration of 0.1mol/L, and adding an iron porphyrin compound into the organic electrolyte to obtain an organic composite electrolyte with the concentration of 0.01 mol/L;
dissolving and absorbing carbon dioxide by using an organic composite electrolyte in a gas absorption tower, continuously injecting the organic composite electrolyte containing a large amount of carbon dioxide into the bottom of a cathode chamber, flowing the organic composite electrolyte containing lower concentration carbon dioxide at the upper part of the cathode chamber out of the upper part of the cathode chamber, reintroducing the organic composite electrolyte containing lower concentration carbon dioxide into the gas absorption tower for dissolving and absorbing carbon dioxide, and injecting the obtained organic composite electrolyte containing a large amount of carbon dioxide into the bottom of the cathode chamber of the three-compartment electrolytic cell again, thereby forming a catholyte cycle; continuously injecting 25wt% NaCl water solution into the anode chamber, flowing water solution containing lower concentration NaCl from the upper part of the anode chamber, replenishing NaCl and water, and injecting into the anode chamber again; water is continuously injected into the middle chamber, and the solution flowing out of the middle chamber is evaporated and separated to obtain sodium hydroxide.
And fourthly, switching on an electrolysis power supply at normal temperature and normal pressure, controlling the voltage of a tank to be 5.2V, enabling chloride ions to undergo oxidation reaction on an anode to generate chlorine, enabling sodium ions in an anode chamber to pass through a cation exchange membrane and enter an intermediate chamber to meet hydroxide ions generated by hydrolysis of a bipolar membrane to generate sodium hydroxide, enabling carbon dioxide to undergo electroreduction reaction on a cathode to generate carbon monoxide and carbonate, and enabling carbonate to react with hydrogen ions generated by hydrolysis of the bipolar membrane to generate carbon dioxide and water. The result of the electrolysis experiment for the period of 12 hours shows that the current efficiency of generating carbon monoxide is stabilized at 92 percent, and the current density is stabilized at 30mA/cm 2 The current efficiency of the generated chlorine gas is stabilized at 96%, and the current density is stabilized at 25mA/cm 2 The generated carbon monoxide and chlorine are respectively stored in a gas storage tank.
In this embodiment, as shown in fig. 2, the gas generated in the cathode chamber is detected as CO gas by gas chromatography, the solution in the middle chamber is tested by using pH test paper to indicate that sodium hydroxide solution is generated, and the gas generated in the anode chamber is tested by using starch potassium iodide test paper to indicate that the gas is Cl 2
Example 2
A bipolar membrane electrolysis method for preparing carbon monoxide by electrolyzing carbon dioxide in an organic electrolyte and simultaneously preparing chlorine and metal hydroxide as byproducts comprises the following specific operation steps:
Dividing an electrolytic cell into a cathode chamber, an intermediate chamber and an anode chamber by using a bipolar membrane and a sulfonated polyethylene cation exchange membrane, placing an Ag electrode as a cathode in the cathode chamber and placing IrO in the anode chamber 2 ·Ta 2 O 5 The coated titanium electrode served as the anode and water was added to the intermediate chamber. The anion permeation layer of the bipolar membrane is styrene/vinylbenzyl chloride copolymer anion permeation layer seed permeation containing diamineThe permeable layer has a thickness of 180 micrometers, the cation permeable layer is a sulfonated polyethylene cation permeable layer, the thickness is 250 micrometers, and a polyvinyl acid/polyvinyl pyridinium complex is introduced into the interface area of the cation permeable layer and the anion permeable layer to serve as a hydrolysis catalyst.
Dissolving tetrabutylammonium chloride into N-methylpyrrolidone to obtain 0.7mol/L organic composite electrolyte, and adding an iron phthalocyanine compound into the organic electrolyte to ensure that the concentration of the iron phthalocyanine compound reaches 0.02mol/L to obtain the organic composite electrolyte;
dissolving and absorbing carbon dioxide by using an organic composite electrolyte in a gas absorption tower, continuously injecting the organic composite electrolyte containing a large amount of carbon dioxide into the bottom of a cathode chamber, flowing the organic composite electrolyte containing lower concentration carbon dioxide at the upper part of the cathode chamber out of the upper part of the cathode chamber, reintroducing the organic composite electrolyte containing lower concentration carbon dioxide into the gas absorption tower for dissolving and absorbing carbon dioxide, and injecting the obtained organic composite electrolyte containing a large amount of carbon dioxide into the bottom of the cathode chamber of the three-compartment electrolytic cell again, thereby forming a catholyte cycle; continuously injecting 24wt% KCl solution into the anode chamber, and injecting the aqueous solution containing lower concentration KCl at the upper part of the anode chamber into the anode chamber again after the KCl and water are supplemented; water is continuously injected into the middle chamber, and the solution flowing out of the middle chamber is evaporated and separated to obtain potassium hydroxide.
Step four, switching on an electrolysis power supply at normal temperature and normal pressure, controlling the voltage of a tank to be 6.8V, enabling chloride ions to undergo oxidation reaction on an anode to generate chlorine, enabling potassium ions in an anode chamber to pass through a cation exchange membrane and enter an intermediate chamber to meet hydroxide ions generated by hydrolysis of a bipolar membrane to generate potassium hydroxide, enabling carbon dioxide to undergo electroreduction reaction on a cathode to generate carbon monoxide and carbonate, and enabling carbonate to react with hydrogen ions generated by hydrolysis of the bipolar membrane to generate carbon dioxide and water. The result of the electrolysis experiment for the period of 12 hours shows that the current efficiency of generating carbon monoxide is stabilized at 93 percent, and the current density is stabilized at 39mA/cm 2 The current efficiency of chlorine generation was stabilized at 95% and the current density was stabilized at 32mA/cm 2 The generated carbon monoxide and chlorine are respectively stored in a gas storage tank.
Example 3
A bipolar membrane electrolysis method for preparing carbon monoxide by electrolyzing carbon dioxide in an organic electrolyte and simultaneously preparing chlorine and metal hydroxide as byproducts comprises the following specific operation steps:
the method comprises the steps of firstly, dividing an electrolytic cell into a cathode chamber, an intermediate chamber and an anode chamber by using a bipolar membrane and a sulfonated polystyrene cation exchange membrane, placing a Zn electrode in the cathode chamber as a cathode, placing a glassy carbon electrode in the anode chamber as an anode, and adding water in the intermediate chamber. The anion permeation layer of the bipolar membrane is a quaternized polyvinyl chloride anion permeation layer, the thickness is 210 microns, the cation permeation layer is a sulfonated polyvinylidene fluoride cation permeation layer, the thickness is 150 microns, and sulfonated polyether-ether-ketone is introduced into the interface area of the cation permeation layer and the anion permeation layer to serve as a hydrolysis catalyst.
Dissolving tetrabutylammonium bromide into N-methylpyrrolidone to obtain an organic electrolyte with the concentration of 0.6mol/L, and adding tricarbonyl-2, 2 '-bipyridine metal halide into the organic electrolyte to enable the concentration of the tricarbonyl-2, 2' -bipyridine metal halide to reach 0.2mol/L to obtain an organic composite electrolyte;
dissolving and absorbing carbon dioxide by using an organic composite electrolyte in a gas absorption tower, continuously injecting the organic composite electrolyte containing a large amount of carbon dioxide into the bottom of a cathode chamber, flowing the organic composite electrolyte containing lower concentration carbon dioxide at the upper part of the cathode chamber out of the upper part of the cathode chamber, reintroducing the organic composite electrolyte containing lower concentration carbon dioxide into the gas absorption tower for dissolving and absorbing carbon dioxide, and injecting the obtained organic composite electrolyte containing a large amount of carbon dioxide into the bottom of the cathode chamber of the three-compartment electrolytic cell again, thereby forming a catholyte cycle; continuously injecting 10wt% LiCl solution into the anode chamber, flowing out the aqueous solution containing low concentration LiCl at the upper part of the anode chamber, supplementing LiCl and water, and then injecting into the anode chamber again; water is continuously injected into the middle chamber, and the solution flowing out of the middle chamber is evaporated and separated to obtain lithium hydroxide.
And fourthly, switching on an electrolysis power supply at normal temperature and normal pressure, controlling the cell voltage to be 8.6V, enabling chloride ions to undergo oxidation reaction on an anode to generate chlorine, enabling lithium ions in an anode chamber to pass through a cation exchange membrane and enter an intermediate chamber to meet hydroxide ions generated by hydrolysis of a bipolar membrane to generate lithium hydroxide, enabling carbon dioxide to undergo electroreduction reaction on a cathode to generate carbon monoxide and carbonate, and enabling carbonate to react with hydrogen ions generated by hydrolysis of the bipolar membrane to generate carbon dioxide and water. The result of the electrolysis experiment for the period of 12 hours shows that the current efficiency of generating carbon monoxide is stabilized at 91 percent, and the current density is stabilized at 56mA/cm 2 The current efficiency of the generated chlorine gas is stabilized at 95%, and the current density is stabilized at 47mA/cm 2 The generated carbon monoxide and chlorine are respectively stored in a gas storage tank.
Example 4
A bipolar membrane electrolysis method for preparing carbon monoxide by electrolyzing carbon dioxide in an organic electrolyte and simultaneously preparing chlorine and metal hydroxide as byproducts comprises the following specific operation steps:
the method comprises the steps of firstly, dividing an electrolytic cell into a cathode chamber, an intermediate chamber and an anode chamber by using a bipolar membrane and a sulfonated polyvinylidene fluoride cation exchange membrane, placing an Ag/Zn alloy electrode in the cathode chamber as a cathode, placing a graphite electrode in the anode chamber as an anode, and adding water in the intermediate chamber. The anion permeation layer of the bipolar membrane is a quaternized polyphenyl ether anion permeation layer, the thickness is 160 microns, the cation permeation layer is a sulfonated polyether-ether-ketone cation permeation layer, the thickness is 150 microns, and chromium hydroxide/zirconia nano particles are introduced into the interface area of the cation permeation layer and the anion permeation layer to serve as a hydrolysis catalyst.
Dissolving tetrabutylammonium perchlorate into diethyl carbonate to obtain 2mol/L organic electrolyte, and adding imidazole ionic liquid into the organic electrolyte to enable the concentration of the imidazole ionic liquid to reach 0.4mol/L to obtain organic composite electrolyte;
dissolving and absorbing carbon dioxide by using an organic composite electrolyte in a gas absorption tower, continuously injecting the organic composite electrolyte containing a large amount of carbon dioxide into the bottom of the cathode chamber at the upper part of the cathode chamberThe organic composite electrolyte containing the carbon dioxide with lower concentration flows out from the upper part of the cathode chamber, the organic composite electrolyte containing the carbon dioxide with lower concentration is reintroduced into the gas absorption tower for dissolving and absorbing the carbon dioxide, and the obtained organic composite electrolyte containing a large amount of carbon dioxide is reinjected into the bottom part of the cathode chamber of the three-compartment electrolytic cell, so that the catholyte circulation is formed; 15wt% BaCl was continuously injected into the anode chamber 2 Solution at the upper part of the anode chamber containing BaCl with lower concentration 2 The aqueous solution of (2) flows out from the upper part of the anode chamber and is supplemented with BaCl 2 And water, re-injecting into the anode chamber; water is continuously injected into the intermediate chamber, and the solution flowing out of the intermediate chamber is evaporated and separated to obtain barium hydroxide.
And fourthly, switching on an electrolysis power supply at normal temperature and normal pressure, controlling the cell voltage to be 5.9V, enabling chloride ions to undergo oxidation reaction on an anode to generate chlorine, enabling barium ions in an anode chamber to pass through a cation exchange membrane and enter an intermediate chamber to meet hydroxide ions generated by hydrolysis of a bipolar membrane to generate barium hydroxide, enabling carbon dioxide to undergo electroreduction reaction on a cathode to generate carbon monoxide and carbonate, and enabling carbonate to react with hydrogen ions generated by hydrolysis of the bipolar membrane to generate carbon dioxide and water. The experimental result of the electrolysis for 12 hours period shows that the current efficiency of generating carbon monoxide is stabilized at 94 percent, and the current density is stabilized at 24mA/cm 2 The current efficiency of the generated chlorine gas is stabilized at 96%, and the current density is stabilized at 21mA/cm 2 The generated carbon monoxide and chlorine are respectively stored in a gas storage tank.
Example 5
A bipolar membrane electrolysis method for preparing carbon monoxide by electrolyzing carbon dioxide in an organic electrolyte and simultaneously preparing chlorine and metal hydroxide as byproducts comprises the following specific operation steps:
the first step, the electrolytic cell is divided into a cathode chamber, an intermediate chamber and an anode chamber by a bipolar membrane and a chlorosulfonated polyethylene-based cation exchange membrane, a gold-silver alloy electrode is placed in the cathode chamber as a cathode, a glassy carbon electrode is placed in the anode chamber as an anode, and water is added in the intermediate chamber. The anion permeation layer of the bipolar membrane is a polysulfone anion permeation layer containing bicyclic amine, the thickness is 300 microns, the cation permeation layer is a sulfonated polyvinylidene fluoride cation permeation layer, the thickness is 15 microns, and chromium oxide/nickel oxide nano particles are introduced into the interface area of the cation permeation layer and the anion permeation layer to serve as a water dissociation catalyst.
Dissolving tetrabutyl ammonium chloride into dimethyl sulfoxide to obtain an organic electrolyte with the concentration of 4mol/L, and adding pyridine ionic liquid into the organic electrolyte to reach the concentration of 0.4mol/L to obtain an organic composite electrolyte;
dissolving and absorbing carbon dioxide by using an organic composite electrolyte in a gas absorption tower, continuously injecting the organic composite electrolyte containing a large amount of carbon dioxide into the bottom of a cathode chamber, flowing the organic composite electrolyte containing lower concentration carbon dioxide at the upper part of the cathode chamber out of the upper part of the cathode chamber, reintroducing the organic composite electrolyte containing lower concentration carbon dioxide into the gas absorption tower for dissolving and absorbing carbon dioxide, and injecting the obtained organic composite electrolyte containing a large amount of carbon dioxide into the bottom of the cathode chamber of the three-compartment electrolytic cell again, thereby forming a catholyte cycle; continuously injecting 22wt% NaCl solution into the anode chamber, allowing the water solution containing lower concentration NaCl at the upper part of the anode chamber to flow out from the upper part of the anode chamber, supplementing NaCl and water, and then injecting into the anode chamber again; water is continuously injected into the middle chamber, and the solution flowing out of the middle chamber is evaporated and separated to obtain sodium hydroxide.
And fourthly, switching on an electrolysis power supply at normal temperature and normal pressure, controlling the cell voltage to be 7.5V, enabling chloride ions to undergo oxidation reaction on an anode to generate chlorine, enabling sodium ions in an anode chamber to pass through a cation exchange membrane and enter an intermediate chamber to meet hydroxide ions generated by hydrolysis of a bipolar membrane to generate sodium hydroxide, enabling carbon dioxide to undergo electroreduction reaction on a cathode to generate carbon monoxide and carbonate, and enabling carbonate to react with hydrogen ions generated by hydrolysis of the bipolar membrane to generate carbon dioxide and water. The result of the electrolysis experiment for the period of 12 hours shows that the current efficiency of generating carbon monoxide is stabilized at 93 percent, and the current density is stabilized at 48mA/cm 2 The current efficiency of the generated chlorine gas is stabilized at 92%, and the current density is stabilized at 42mA/cm 2 The generated carbon monoxide and chlorine are respectively stored in a gas storage tank.
Example 6
A bipolar membrane electrolysis method for preparing carbon monoxide by electrolyzing carbon dioxide in an organic electrolyte and simultaneously preparing chlorine and metal hydroxide as byproducts comprises the following specific operation steps:
the first step, the electrolytic cell is divided into a cathode chamber, an intermediate chamber and an anode chamber by a bipolar membrane and a sulfonated polyethylene based cation exchange membrane, an Au/Ag alloy electrode is placed in the cathode chamber as a cathode, an iridium oxide coating titanium electrode is placed in the anode chamber as an anode, and water is added in the intermediate chamber. The anion permeation layer of the bipolar membrane is a quaternized styrene/divinylbenzene copolymer anion permeation layer, the thickness is 15 microns, the cation permeation layer is a sulfonated polyvinylidene fluoride cation permeation layer, the thickness is 300 microns, and aluminum hydroxide/tin oxide nano particles are introduced into the interface area of the cation permeation layer and the anion permeation layer to serve as a water dissociation catalyst.
Dissolving tetrabutylammonium bromide into N, N-dimethylformamide to obtain an organic electrolyte with the concentration of 3mol/L, and adding a metalloporphyrin compound into the organic electrolyte to enable the concentration of the metalloporphyrin compound to reach 0.02mol/L to obtain an organic composite electrolyte;
dissolving and absorbing carbon dioxide by using an organic composite electrolyte in a gas absorption tower, continuously injecting the organic composite electrolyte containing a large amount of carbon dioxide into the bottom of a cathode chamber, flowing the organic composite electrolyte containing lower concentration carbon dioxide at the upper part of the cathode chamber out of the upper part of the cathode chamber, reintroducing the organic composite electrolyte containing lower concentration carbon dioxide into the gas absorption tower for dissolving and absorbing carbon dioxide, and injecting the obtained organic composite electrolyte containing a large amount of carbon dioxide into the bottom of the cathode chamber of the three-compartment electrolytic cell again, thereby forming a catholyte cycle; 15wt% BaCl was continuously injected into the anode chamber 2 Solution at the upper part of the anode chamber containing BaCl with lower concentration 2 The aqueous solution of (2) flows out from the upper part of the anode chamber and is supplemented with BaCl 2 And water, re-injecting into the anode chamber; continuously injecting water into the intermediate chamber, evaporating the solution flowing from the intermediate chamber And (3) separating to obtain barium hydroxide.
And fourthly, switching on an electrolysis power supply at normal temperature and normal pressure, controlling the cell voltage to be 5.9V, enabling chloride ions to undergo oxidation reaction on an anode to generate chlorine, enabling barium ions in an anode chamber to pass through a cation exchange membrane and enter an intermediate chamber to meet hydroxide ions generated by hydrolysis of a bipolar membrane to generate barium hydroxide, enabling carbon dioxide to undergo electroreduction reaction on a cathode to generate carbon monoxide and carbonate, and enabling carbonate to react with hydrogen ions generated by hydrolysis of the bipolar membrane to generate carbon dioxide and water. The result of the electrolysis experiment for the period of 12 hours shows that the current efficiency of generating carbon monoxide is stabilized at 92 percent, and the current density is stabilized at 21mA/cm 2 The current efficiency of the generated chlorine gas is stabilized at 97%, and the current density is stabilized at 19mA/cm 2 The generated carbon monoxide and chlorine are respectively stored in a gas storage tank.
Example 7
A bipolar membrane electrolysis method for preparing carbon monoxide by electrolyzing carbon dioxide in an organic electrolyte and simultaneously preparing chlorine and metal hydroxide as byproducts comprises the following specific operation steps:
the first step is to divide the electrolytic cell into a cathode chamber, an intermediate chamber and an anode chamber by using a bipolar membrane and a perfluorinated sulfonic acid type cation exchange membrane, wherein an Au electrode is arranged in the cathode chamber as a cathode, an iridium oxide coating titanium electrode is arranged in the anode chamber as an anode, and water is added in the intermediate chamber. The anion permeation layer of the bipolar membrane is a perfluoropolymer anion permeation layer containing quaternary ammonium and secondary amine, the thickness is 200 micrometers, the cation permeation layer is a sulfonated polyvinylidene fluoride cation permeation layer, the thickness is 210 micrometers, and ferric hydroxide/manganese dioxide nano particles are introduced into the interface area of the cation permeation layer and the anion permeation layer to serve as a water dissociation catalyst.
Dissolving tetrabutylammonium iodide into acetonitrile to obtain organic electrolyte with the concentration of 4mol/L, and adding a metal phthalocyanine compound into the organic electrolyte to reach the concentration of 0.03mol/L to obtain organic composite electrolyte;
dissolving and absorbing carbon dioxide by using an organic composite electrolyte in a gas absorption tower, continuously injecting the organic composite electrolyte containing a large amount of carbon dioxide into the bottom of a cathode chamber, flowing the organic composite electrolyte containing lower concentration carbon dioxide at the upper part of the cathode chamber out of the upper part of the cathode chamber, reintroducing the organic composite electrolyte containing lower concentration carbon dioxide into the gas absorption tower for dissolving and absorbing carbon dioxide, and injecting the obtained organic composite electrolyte containing a large amount of carbon dioxide into the bottom of the cathode chamber of the three-compartment electrolytic cell again, thereby forming a catholyte cycle; continuously injecting 25wt% of KCl solution into the anode chamber, flowing water solution containing lower concentration KCl at the upper part of the anode chamber out of the upper part of the anode chamber, and injecting the water solution into the anode chamber again after the KCl and water are supplemented; water is continuously injected into the middle chamber, and the solution flowing out of the middle chamber is evaporated and separated to obtain potassium hydroxide.
Step four, switching on an electrolysis power supply at normal temperature and normal pressure, controlling the cell voltage to be 6.6V, enabling chloride ions to undergo oxidation reaction on an anode to generate chlorine, enabling potassium ions in an anode chamber to pass through a cation exchange membrane and enter an intermediate chamber to meet hydroxide ions generated by hydrolysis of a bipolar membrane to generate potassium hydroxide, enabling carbon dioxide to undergo electroreduction reaction on a cathode to generate carbon monoxide and carbonate, and enabling carbonate to react with hydrogen ions generated by hydrolysis of the bipolar membrane to generate carbon dioxide and water. The experimental result of the electrolysis for 12 hours period shows that the current efficiency of generating carbon monoxide is stabilized at 94 percent, and the current density is stabilized at 45mA/cm 2 The current efficiency of the generated chlorine gas is stabilized at 95%, and the current density is stabilized at 36mA/cm 2 The generated carbon monoxide and chlorine are respectively stored in a gas storage tank.
Example 8
A bipolar membrane electrolysis method for preparing carbon monoxide by electrolyzing carbon dioxide in an organic electrolyte and simultaneously preparing chlorine and metal hydroxide as byproducts comprises the following specific operation steps:
the method comprises the steps of firstly, dividing a bipolar membrane and sulfonated polyethylene cation exchange membrane electrolytic cell into a cathode chamber, an intermediate chamber and an anode chamber, placing an Ag/Zn alloy electrode in the cathode chamber as a cathode, placing a glassy carbon electrode in the anode chamber as an anode, and adding water in the intermediate chamber. The anion permeation layer of the bipolar membrane is a perfluoropolymer anion permeation layer containing quaternary ammonium and secondary amine, the thickness is 180 micrometers, the cation permeation layer is a sulfonated polyether ether ketone cation permeation layer, the thickness is 190 micrometers, and iridium dioxide/titanium dioxide nano particles are introduced into the interface area of the cation permeation layer and the anion permeation layer to serve as a water dissociation catalyst.
Dissolving tetrabutylammonium iodide into propylene carbonate to obtain organic electrolyte with the concentration of 4mol/L, and adding a metal phthalocyanine compound into the organic electrolyte to reach the concentration of 0.04mol/L to obtain an organic composite electrolyte;
dissolving and absorbing carbon dioxide by using an organic composite electrolyte in a gas absorption tower, continuously injecting the organic composite electrolyte containing a large amount of carbon dioxide into the bottom of a cathode chamber, flowing the organic composite electrolyte containing lower concentration carbon dioxide at the upper part of the cathode chamber out of the upper part of the cathode chamber, reintroducing the organic composite electrolyte containing lower concentration carbon dioxide into the gas absorption tower for dissolving and absorbing carbon dioxide, and injecting the obtained organic composite electrolyte containing a large amount of carbon dioxide into the bottom of the cathode chamber of the three-compartment electrolytic cell again, thereby forming a catholyte cycle; continuously injecting 10wt% LiCl solution into the anode chamber, flowing out the aqueous solution containing low concentration LiCl at the upper part of the anode chamber, supplementing LiCl and water, and then injecting into the anode chamber again; water is continuously injected into the middle chamber, and the solution flowing out of the middle chamber is evaporated and separated to obtain lithium hydroxide.
And fourthly, switching on an electrolysis power supply at normal temperature and normal pressure, controlling the cell voltage to be 6.2V, enabling chloride ions to undergo oxidation reaction on an anode to generate chlorine, enabling lithium ions in an anode chamber to pass through a cation exchange membrane and enter an intermediate chamber to meet hydroxide ions generated by hydrolysis of a bipolar membrane to generate lithium hydroxide, enabling carbon dioxide to undergo electroreduction reaction on a cathode to generate carbon monoxide and carbonate, and enabling carbonate to react with hydrogen ions generated by hydrolysis of the bipolar membrane to generate carbon dioxide and water. The experimental result of the 12-hour long-period electrolysis shows that the current efficiency of generating carbon monoxide is stabilized at 92 percent, and the current density is stabilized at 39mA/cm 2 The current efficiency of the generated chlorine is stabilized at 95%, and the current density is stabilized at32.5mA/cm 2 The generated carbon monoxide and chlorine are respectively stored in a gas storage tank.
Example 9
A bipolar membrane electrolysis method for preparing carbon monoxide by electrolyzing carbon dioxide in an organic electrolyte and simultaneously preparing chlorine and metal hydroxide as byproducts comprises the following specific operation steps:
the method comprises the steps of firstly, dividing an electrolytic cell into a cathode chamber, an intermediate chamber and an anode chamber by using a bipolar membrane and a sulfonated polystyrene cation exchange membrane, placing an Au/Zn alloy electrode in the cathode chamber as a cathode, placing a glassy carbon electrode in the anode chamber as an anode, and adding water in the intermediate chamber. The anion permeation layer of the bipolar membrane is a perfluoropolymer anion permeation layer containing quaternary ammonium and secondary amine, the thickness is 200 micrometers, the cation permeation layer is a sulfonated polyethylene cation permeation layer, the thickness is 250 micrometers, and silica/indium trioxide nano particles are introduced into the interface area of the cation permeation layer and the anion permeation layer to serve as a water dissociation catalyst.
Dissolving tetrabutylammonium bromide into acetonitrile to obtain an organic electrolyte with the concentration of 0.6mol/L, and adding tricarbonyl-2, 2' -bipyridine metal halide into the organic electrolyte to obtain an organic composite electrolyte with the concentration of 0.2 mol/L;
dissolving and absorbing carbon dioxide by using an organic composite electrolyte in a gas absorption tower, continuously injecting the organic composite electrolyte containing a large amount of carbon dioxide into the bottom of a cathode chamber, flowing the organic composite electrolyte containing lower concentration carbon dioxide at the upper part of the cathode chamber out of the upper part of the cathode chamber, reintroducing the organic composite electrolyte containing lower concentration carbon dioxide into the gas absorption tower for dissolving and absorbing carbon dioxide, and injecting the obtained organic composite electrolyte containing a large amount of carbon dioxide into the bottom of the cathode chamber of the three-compartment electrolytic cell again, thereby forming a catholyte cycle; continuously injecting 25wt% NaCl solution into the anode chamber, allowing the water solution containing lower concentration NaCl at the upper part of the anode chamber to flow out from the upper part of the anode chamber, supplementing NaCl and water, and then injecting into the anode chamber again; water is continuously injected into the middle chamber, and the solution flowing out of the middle chamber is evaporated and separated to obtain sodium hydroxide.
And fourthly, switching on an electrolysis power supply at normal temperature and normal pressure, controlling the voltage of a tank to be 6.7V, enabling chloride ions to undergo oxidation reaction on an anode to generate chlorine, enabling sodium ions in an anode chamber to pass through a cation exchange membrane and enter an intermediate chamber to meet hydroxide ions generated by hydrolysis of a bipolar membrane to generate sodium hydroxide, enabling carbon dioxide to undergo electroreduction reaction on a cathode to generate carbon monoxide and carbonate, and enabling carbonate to react with hydrogen ions generated by hydrolysis of the bipolar membrane to generate carbon dioxide and water. The experimental result of the 12-hour long-period electrolysis shows that the current efficiency of generating carbon monoxide is stabilized at 92 percent, and the current density is stabilized at 45mA/cm 2 The current efficiency of the generated chlorine is stabilized at 95%, and the current density is stabilized at 38mA/cm 2 The generated carbon monoxide and chlorine are respectively stored in a gas storage tank.
Example 10
A bipolar membrane electrolysis method for preparing carbon monoxide by electrolyzing carbon dioxide in an organic electrolyte and simultaneously preparing chlorine and metal hydroxide as byproducts comprises the following specific operation steps:
step one, dividing an electrolytic cell into a cathode chamber, an intermediate chamber and an anode chamber by using a bipolar membrane and a perfluorinated sulfonic acid type cation exchange membrane, placing an Au electrode as a cathode in the cathode chamber and placing IrO in the anode chamber 2 ·Ta 2 O 5 The coated titanium electrode served as the anode and water was added to the intermediate chamber. The anion permeation layer of the bipolar membrane is an imidazole polyether-ether-ketone anion permeation layer with the thickness of 240 microns, the cation permeation layer is a sulfonated polyvinylidene fluoride cation permeation layer with the thickness of 250 microns, and aluminum hydroxide is introduced into the interface area of the cation permeation layer and the anion permeation layer to serve as a hydrolysis catalyst.
Dissolving tetrabutylammonium iodide into propylene carbonate to obtain an organic electrolyte with the concentration of 0.9mol/L, and adding imidazole ionic liquid into the organic electrolyte to obtain an organic composite electrolyte with the concentration of 0.4 mol/L;
dissolving and absorbing carbon dioxide by using an organic composite electrolyte in a gas absorption tower, continuously injecting the organic composite electrolyte containing a large amount of carbon dioxide into the bottom of a cathode chamber, flowing the organic composite electrolyte containing lower concentration carbon dioxide at the upper part of the cathode chamber out of the upper part of the cathode chamber, reintroducing the organic composite electrolyte containing lower concentration carbon dioxide into the gas absorption tower for dissolving and absorbing carbon dioxide, and injecting the obtained organic composite electrolyte containing a large amount of carbon dioxide into the bottom of the cathode chamber of the three-compartment electrolytic cell again, thereby forming a catholyte cycle; continuously injecting 22wt% NaCl solution into the anode chamber, allowing the water solution containing lower concentration NaCl at the upper part of the anode chamber to flow out from the upper part of the anode chamber, supplementing NaCl and water, and then injecting into the anode chamber again; water is continuously injected into the middle chamber, and the solution flowing out of the middle chamber is evaporated and separated to obtain sodium hydroxide.
And fourthly, switching on an electrolysis power supply at normal temperature and normal pressure, controlling the cell voltage to be 6.6V, enabling chloride ions to undergo oxidation reaction on an anode to generate chlorine, enabling barium ions in an anode chamber to pass through a cation exchange membrane and enter an intermediate chamber to meet hydroxide ions generated by hydrolysis of a bipolar membrane to generate barium hydroxide, enabling carbon dioxide to undergo electroreduction reaction on a cathode to generate carbon monoxide and carbonate, and enabling carbonate to react with hydrogen ions generated by hydrolysis of the bipolar membrane to generate carbon dioxide and water. The experimental result of the electrolysis for 12 hours period shows that the current efficiency of generating carbon monoxide is stabilized at 94 percent, and the current density is stabilized at 45mA/cm 2 The current efficiency of the generated chlorine gas is stabilized at 96%, and the current density is stabilized at 32mA/cm 2 The generated carbon monoxide and chlorine are respectively stored in a gas storage tank.
While the present invention has been described in detail with reference to the drawings, the present invention is not limited to the above embodiments, and various changes can be made without departing from the spirit of the present invention within the knowledge of those skilled in the art.

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1. A bipolar membrane electrolysis method for preparing carbon monoxide by electrolyzing carbon dioxide in an organic electrolyte and simultaneously preparing chlorine and metal hydroxide as byproducts is characterized by comprising the following steps of: dividing the electrolytic cell into a cathode chamber, an intermediate chamber and an anode chamber by using a bipolar membrane and a cation exchange membrane to form a three-compartment electrolytic cell, wherein the electrolyte in the cathode chamber is an organic composite electrolyte dissolved with a large amount of carbon dioxide, the electrolyte in the intermediate chamber is a metal hydroxide aqueous solution, the electrolyte in the anode chamber is a metal chloride aqueous solution, carbon monoxide is generated on a cathode and chlorine is generated on an anode in the electrolytic reaction process, and the content of the metal hydroxide in the intermediate chamber is increased;
A bipolar membrane separates the cathode chamber from the intermediate chamber, and a cation exchange membrane separates the intermediate chamber from the anode chamber;
the chlorine ions in the anode chamber are subjected to oxidation reaction on the anode to generate chlorine; the metal ions in the anode chamber pass through the cation exchange membrane and enter the middle chamber to meet hydroxide ions generated by the hydrolysis and dissociation of the bipolar membrane, so as to generate metal hydroxide; the carbon dioxide is subjected to electroreduction reaction on the cathode to generate carbon monoxide and carbonate, and the carbonate reacts with hydrogen ions generated by the hydrolysis of the bipolar membrane to generate carbon dioxide and water.
2. The bipolar membrane electrolysis method for preparing carbon monoxide and simultaneously producing chlorine and metal hydroxide by electrolyzing carbon dioxide in an organic electrolyte according to claim 1, wherein the method comprises the following steps: the anion permeable layer in the bipolar membrane is one of an imidazole polyether ether ketone anion permeable layer, a styrene/ethylene benzyl chloride copolymer anion permeable layer containing diamine, a quaternized polyethylene anion permeable layer, a quaternized polyvinyl chloride anion permeable layer, a quaternized polyphenyl ether anion permeable layer, a polysulfone anion permeable layer containing bicyclic amine, a quaternized styrene/divinylbenzene copolymer anion permeable layer and a perfluoropolymer anion permeable layer containing quaternary amine and secondary amine, and the thickness of the anion permeable layer is 15-300 micrometers; the cation permeation layer in the bipolar membrane is one of a sulfonated polyethylene cation permeation layer, a sulfonated polystyrene cation permeation layer, a sulfonated polyether-ether-ketone cation permeation layer, a sulfonated polyvinylidene fluoride cation permeation layer and a perfluorinated sulfonic acid type cation permeation layer, the thickness is 15-300 microns, and a water dissociation catalyst is introduced into the interface area of the cation permeation layer and the anion permeation layer, wherein the water dissociation catalyst is one or a mixture of any proportion of a plurality of polyvinyl acid/polyvinyl pyridinium complex, sulfonated polyether-ether-ketone, chromium hydroxide, zirconium oxide, aluminosilicate, chromium trioxide, nickel oxide, aluminum hydroxide, tin oxide, ferric hydroxide, manganese dioxide, iridium dioxide, titanium dioxide, silicon dioxide, indium trioxide, cobalt trioxide, bismuth, tin, ruthenium, rhodium, palladium, osmium, iridium and platinum.
3. The bipolar membrane electrolysis method for preparing carbon monoxide and simultaneously producing chlorine and metal hydroxide by electrolyzing carbon dioxide in an organic electrolyte according to claim 1, wherein the method comprises the following steps: the cation exchange membrane is one of a sulfonated polyethylene cation exchange membrane, a sulfonated polystyrene cation exchange membrane, a sulfonated polyvinylidene fluoride cation exchange membrane, a chlorosulfonated polyethylene cation exchange membrane and a perfluorosulfonic acid cation exchange membrane.
4. The bipolar membrane electrolysis method for preparing carbon monoxide and simultaneously producing chlorine and metal hydroxide by electrolyzing carbon dioxide in an organic electrolyte according to claim 1, wherein the method comprises the following steps: the organic composite electrolyte in the cathode chamber electrolyte comprises three functional components: the organic solvent is one of dimethyl sulfoxide, N-dimethylformamide, propylene carbonate, N-methylpyrrolidone, diethyl carbonate and acetonitrile or a mixed solvent formed by the solvents according to any proportion, the organic supporting electrolyte is one of quaternary ammonium salt and choline chloride or a mixture of the two supporting electrolytes according to any proportion, and the homogeneous electrocatalyst is one of metalloporphyrin compound, metal phthalocyanine compound, tricarbonyl-2, 2' -bipyridine metal halide, imidazole ionic liquid and pyridine ionic liquid or a mixture formed by the homogeneous electrocatalyst according to any proportion.
5. The bipolar membrane electrolysis method for preparing carbon monoxide and simultaneously producing chlorine and metal hydroxide by electrolyzing carbon dioxide in an organic electrolyte according to claim 1, wherein the method comprises the following steps: the three partitionsThe anode of the chamber electrolytic cell is an iridium oxide coating titanium electrode and IrO 2 ·Ta 2 O 5 The anode chamber electrolyte is a metal chloride aqueous solution, and the cathode is any one of a Cu, au, ag, zn electrode or an alloy of the metals.
6. The bipolar membrane electrolysis method for preparing carbon monoxide and simultaneously producing chlorine and metal hydroxide by electrolyzing carbon dioxide in an organic electrolyte according to claim 5, wherein the method comprises the steps of: the metal chloride aqueous solution is one or a mixture aqueous solution consisting of any proportion of sodium chloride, potassium chloride, lithium chloride and barium chloride.
7. The bipolar membrane electrolysis method for preparing carbon monoxide and simultaneously producing chlorine and metal hydroxide by electrolysis of carbon dioxide in an organic electrolyte according to any one of claims 1 to 6, characterized by comprising the following specific operation steps:
dividing an electrolytic cell into a cathode chamber, an intermediate chamber and an anode chamber by using a bipolar membrane and a cation exchange membrane to form a three-compartment electrolytic cell, respectively placing a cathode and an anode in the cathode chamber and the anode chamber, and adding water in the intermediate chamber;
Step two, organic supporting electrolyte is dissolved in an organic solvent to prepare an organic electrolyte with the concentration of 0.1-4.0 mol/L, a homogeneous electrocatalyst is added into the obtained organic electrolyte, so that the concentration of the homogeneous electrocatalyst reaches 0.01-0.4 mol/L, an organic composite electrolyte is obtained, and a metal chloride aqueous solution with the mass percent concentration of 10% -25% is prepared;
dissolving carbon dioxide into an organic composite electrolyte in a gas absorption tower, continuously injecting the organic composite electrolyte containing a large amount of carbon dioxide into the bottom of a cathode chamber, flowing the organic composite electrolyte containing lower concentration carbon dioxide at the upper part of the cathode chamber out of the upper part of the cathode chamber, and sending the organic composite electrolyte containing lower concentration carbon dioxide into the gas absorption tower again for dissolving and absorbing carbon dioxide, wherein the obtained organic composite electrolyte containing a large amount of carbon dioxide is injected into the bottom of the cathode chamber of the three-compartment electrolytic cell again, so that catholyte circulation is formed; continuously injecting metal chloride aqueous solution into the anode chamber, enabling the aqueous solution containing the metal chloride with lower concentration at the upper part of the anode chamber to flow out of the upper part of the anode chamber, supplementing the metal chloride and water, then injecting the solution into the anode chamber, continuously injecting water into the middle chamber, and evaporating and separating the solution flowing out of the middle chamber to obtain metal hydroxide;
Step four, switching on an electrolysis power supply at normal temperature and normal pressure, controlling the voltage of a tank to be 5.2-9.6V, and enabling chloride ions in an anode chamber to undergo oxidation reaction on an anode to generate chlorine; the metal ions in the anode chamber pass through the cation exchange membrane and enter the middle chamber to meet hydroxide ions generated by the hydrolysis and dissociation of the bipolar membrane, so as to generate metal hydroxide; the carbon dioxide is subjected to electroreduction reaction on the cathode to generate carbon monoxide and carbonate, the carbonate reacts with hydrogen ions generated by the hydrolysis of the bipolar membrane to generate carbon dioxide and water, and the generated carbon monoxide and chlorine are respectively stored in the gas storage tank.
8. The bipolar membrane electrolysis method for preparing carbon monoxide and simultaneously producing chlorine and metal hydroxide by electrolyzing carbon dioxide in an organic electrolyte according to claim 7, wherein the method comprises the steps of: the chlorine generated by the anode reaction and the carbon monoxide generated by the cathode reaction can be independently used as chemical raw materials, and can be mixed for producing phosgene, and the solution flowing out of the middle chamber is evaporated and separated to obtain metal hydroxide.
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