Originally Posted by
ydeardorff
I started using K2CO3 initially, but switched out to KOH as I am working on a design for a home heater. I didnt want CO, nor CO2 being released in higher than normal conditions. Just consider it "being cautious".
Being that I am a student, I routinely call and talk to the professors at my local university regarding electro-chemistry, metallurgy, and chemistry to ensure I am getting my equations right.
I prefer to know what I am doing from beginning to end. Not the joe-bob six pack approach. After 20 years in the Navy as an aircraft mechanic, composite technician and specializing in reverse engineering, I like to take the slow and informed approach to things. I have been working on Hydrogen generation and electrolysis now for 17 years. I have only recently started applying theory to practical applications in the last 2 or 3.
I have been studying half reactions, chemistry, metallurgy, corrosion properties, battery design you name it.
Making slow, informed, and educated decisions makes for a better end product, and a safer, more efficient, generator.