1 Jun 2006 04:30
Re: H2 boosts combustion efficiency of hydrocarbon fuels
--- In hydrino@..., "Mark Underwood" <mark.underwood <at> ...> wrote: > > --- In hydrino@..., "peterzaterols" <peter.zimmerman <at> > > wrote: > > > > Dave, > > > > Ya still can't get back more energy than you put in. It is true > that > > injecting H2 into another combustion process can improve it, if O2 > is > > also added. But Aquygen is claiming that it can electrolyze water > > with less energy than the energy of combustion. That's obviously a > > load of smelly BS. Even injecting H2 into another fuel cannot get > > more energy out than you put in. > > > Hi Peter, > > I don't recall reading from the website that the Aquygen process is > claiming overunity. It did say however that it produces the gas from > water at about one tenth the energy required to vapourize water. > The heat of vaporization of water is +40.7 kJ/mole, that is it takes 40.7 kJ of energy to vaporize one mole of water (we can have small arguments about the temperature dependence of the heat of vaporization). one tenth of that is 4.1 kJ/mole The heat of reaction for splitting a mole of water into a mole of(Continue reading)
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