volomike
09-01-2008, 11:41 PM
Some scientists are looking into ways to extract more hydrogen than oxygen through electrolysis, and in the most efficient way. Here's a French document where some scientists hooked up a magnetron (the cooker thing in a kitchen microwave) and a thin membrane of titanium dioxide. (By the way, you can't touch or breathe titanium dioxide for too long or you'll have some serious health effects.)
http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=19917031
I haven't paid for the doc, but I can almost guess how it works. The HHO is fed into a box with a titanium dioxide membrane at the top. Inside the box, a spinning magnetron spins horizontally. Somehow this causes the O2 to sink to the bottom of the box where it is picked up through a tube. The hydrogen rises through the titanium dioxide membrane and is picked up through another tube.
So, with the two gases separated, you could control with a gauge your own O2 mixture back into the hydrogen, keeping it from being too powerful.
Okay, so that's a complicated thing. How do you drive the magnetron on the least amount of power? Is there a membrane safer than TIO2 that doesn't cause the same health effects?
Or, is there a more efficient way to pull at least some of the oxygen out of the HHO, creating a more powerful HHO mixture?
Food for thought.
http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=19917031
I haven't paid for the doc, but I can almost guess how it works. The HHO is fed into a box with a titanium dioxide membrane at the top. Inside the box, a spinning magnetron spins horizontally. Somehow this causes the O2 to sink to the bottom of the box where it is picked up through a tube. The hydrogen rises through the titanium dioxide membrane and is picked up through another tube.
So, with the two gases separated, you could control with a gauge your own O2 mixture back into the hydrogen, keeping it from being too powerful.
Okay, so that's a complicated thing. How do you drive the magnetron on the least amount of power? Is there a membrane safer than TIO2 that doesn't cause the same health effects?
Or, is there a more efficient way to pull at least some of the oxygen out of the HHO, creating a more powerful HHO mixture?
Food for thought.