Circulating fuel cell with crenellated electrode

Claim 1

A CIRCULATING-FUEL REACTOR COMPRISING AN ANODIC COMPARTMENT AND A CATHODIC COMPARTMENT SEPARATED BY AN IONICALLY CONDUCTIVE MEMBRANE, EACH OF THE TWO COMPARTMENTS ENCLOSING, ON ONE HAND, AN ELECTRODE ENABLING THE COLLECTION OF THE CURRENTS CORRESPONDING TO THE REACTIONS OF THE CHEMICAL BODIES CONTAINED IN ONE AND THE OTHER OF THE TWO COMPARTMENTS AND, ON THE OTHER HAND, AN ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTING LIQUID AND, IN AT LEAST ONE OF THE COMPARTMENTS OF THE REACTOR, THERE IS A CIRCULATING LIQUID FREE FROM CATALYST THAT IS SENSIBLY INERT WITH RESPECT TO THE ELEMENTS OF THE COMPARTMENT AND OF THE ELECTRODE, SAID COMPARTMENT FILLED WITH CIRCULATING LIQUID FURTHER MORE CONTAINING AT LEAST ONE CHEMICAL BODY IN THE FORM OF A PULVERULENT SOLID, A LIQUID OR A GAS, SAID CHEMICAL BODY BEING CAPABLE OF REACTING WITH ANOTHER CHEMICAL BODY IN THE SOLID STATE OF THE LIQUID STATE PLACED IN THE SECOND COMPARTMENT OF THE REACTOR AND MEANS IN THE SECOND COMPARTMENT, UPSTREAM FROM THE REACTOR, FOR INJECTING THE REACTING CHEMICAL BODY IN THE FORM OF A LIQUIID OR A PULVERULENT SOLID IN THE CURRENT OF LIQUID DESTINED FOR SAID SECOND COMPARTMENT, AT LEAST ONE OF SAID COMPARTMENTS CONTAINING AN ELECTRODE FORMED BY A CRENELLATED OR PARALLEL-CHANNEL PLATE OR GRID, THE WALLS OF THE CREN ELS OR CHANNELS BEING ARRANGED PARALLEL TO THE DIRECTION OF FLOW OF THE CIRCULATION CURRENT WHICH TRANSVERSE THE COMPARTMENT