The possibility of getting carboxylic acids by aliphatic alcohols elec
trochemical oxidation in a basic medium, on NiOOH electrodes, is prese
nted. The determinations thus performed rendered possible to establish
the optimum working conditions of n- propanol electrochemical oxidati
on in a batch-wise operation. A continuous operation, 20 A electrolize
r was developed and tested based on these results.