Electrolytic Ammonia Synthesis from Hydrogen Chloride and Nitrogen Gases with Simultaneous Recovery of Chlorine under Atmospheric Pressure

Abstract

It was confirmed that ammonia was synthesized by bubbling hydrogen chloride gas into a LiCl-KCl-CsCl melt containing nitride ions at . Then, anodic galvanostatic electrolysis was conducted at using a glassy carbon working electrode and a nitrogen gas counter electrode, which showed that chlorine evolved at the anode by the oxidation of chloride ions, and that nitrogen was reduced to nitride ions at the cathode. The obtained results confirmed that ammonia and chlorine were produced from hydrogen chloride and nitrogen as the overall reaction.