Hey guys/gals,
Now Im sure, Im missing a lot on this thought. But it crossed my mind today as I am waking up and getting my day going starting with a fresh pot of coffee.
So here goes....
Take any internal combustion engine....
Im wondering if we've been thinking about this all wrong, or at least in part.
Now hydroxy gas has broken water into 1-O and 2-H's. So in theory here (its an early morning still drinking coffee theory so don't blast me) When hydroxy is combusted it reverts back into water vapor, and oxygen, yes? Okay, so if this could be reclaimed, and split again we wouldn't need 500+ LPM on a hydrogen booster, would we? The idea here is in physics nothing is destroyed it is just re-arranged.
Quote from wikipedia ( I know its not the most reliable source)
A pure stoichiometric mixture may be obtained by water electrolysis, which uses an electric current to dissociate the water molecules:
electrolysis: 2 H2O → 2 H2 + O2 (corrected) H2O -> H2 + O
combustion: 2 H2 + O2 → 2 H2O (corrected) H2+ O -> H2O
source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydroxy_gas
So since we would be re-introducing the same gases already used, and splitting the condensed water vapor back into hydrogen, the engine would need less, or no fresh intake air. The engine would be re-using the gases it already used ad be supplemented as needed with fresh hydroxy gas that was reclaimed from the prior combustion process.
My thought here is that in an engine design that has largely remained unchanged for nearly 100 years. The air pump that is a gasoline engine might need a larger rethinking if hydrogen were to be a primary fuel source.
Is this idea perfect? of course not. There are other gases like NO, CO, and CO2 to contend with. But Im wondering about the feasibility of this idea of a recycling engine. Even if the engine is only using the gases more efficiently, rather than a completely closed system.
The issue here I think would be more heat removal (exhaust temps are hot), and water vapor reclamation, and splitting speed. The HHO device via a sensor would only need to maintain the hho content at a proper ratio, rather than trying to compete with the CFM of the intake pulling in fresh air. Or would the same problem still be production rate of the cell?
Thoughts?