• The CastnerKellner process is a method of electrolysis on an aqueous alkali chloride solution (usually sodium chloride solution) to produce the corresponding...
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    made significant improvements to the sulfite process and was co-inventor of the Castner-Kellner process. He was a student of Freemasonry, Rosicrucianism...
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  • liquefaction and evaporation. In the mercury-cell process, also known as the CastnerKellner process, a saturated brine solution floats on top of a thin...
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    Electrolysis (category Chemical processes)
    using electrolysis. 1886 – Hall–Héroult process developed for making aluminium. 1890 – CastnerKellner process developed for making sodium hydroxide. Electrolysis...
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  • e− Overall process: 2 NaCl (or KCl) + 2 H2O → Cl2 + H2 + 2 NaOH (or KOH) Mercury cell electrolysis, also known as the CastnerKellner process, was the first...
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    large works in Runcorn, Cheshire. The Castner-Kellner process is still in operation in Runcorn today. Castner suffered from tuberculosis and died in...
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    gypsum. As the mercury cell as used in the chlor-alkali industry (CastnerKellner process) is being phased out over concerns over mercury emissions, the...
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    mercury in the late 20th century was in the mercury cell process (also called the Castner-Kellner process) where metallic sodium is formed as an amalgam at a...
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  • Alkali manufacture (category Chemical processes)
    number of factories by an entirely different kind of apparatus. Castner-Kellner process  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from...
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    and the USA. The process was in direct competition with the electrolysis of brine in mercury cells in the Castner-Kellner process but Hargreaves considered...
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    Hamilton Castner (1858–1899), American industrial chemist, formed the Castner-Kellner Alkali Company in Runcorn, which operates the CastnerKellner process Sir...
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    the largest use of mercury was in the mercury cell process (also called the Castner-Kellner process) in the production of chlorine and caustic soda. Copernicium...
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  • York Botanical Garden Hamilton Castner (1879), American industrial chemist famous for developing the CastnerKellner process Graeme Hammond (1879), American...
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    New York City) (d. 1974) Died: Carl Kellner, 53, Austrian industrialist, co-inventor of the Castner-Kellner process, later the founder of [Ordo Templi...
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  • Electrochemical engineering (category Chemical processes)
    first true large-scale electrochemical industry. Later, Hamilton Castner improved the process aluminium manufacturing and devised the electrolysis of brine...
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  • including the Castner-Kellner site, where ICI manufactured chlorine and sodium hydroxide (caustic soda). Adjacent to the Castner-Kellner site was Rocksavage...
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    MacArthur-Forrest process. He became director of the profitable Cassel Cyanide Company and then became a director of the Castner-Kellner Company at Runcorn...
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  • Steerpoint Brickworks, Brixham. William Henry Ashcroft, Radial Driller, Castner-Kellner Works, Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd. William Atkin, Head Foreman...
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