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Designing a cell requires consideration of many things!

One of the first things is working surface area.

This is important as it defines many of the other aspects of your cells performance and design.

One such area of performance is water contamination, which is influenced by the following factors.

• Current Density (The amount of Amps per square area of your cell)
• Voltage or Over Voltage (Usually leading to the above)
• Material (Stainless Steel 316L) offering a relatively low cost alternative (L) = Low Carbon
• Water Quality, that type and level of minerals within the water.

Provided for you here is a Current Density Calculator, type in your specifics to gauge it’s performance characteristics.

Here is a collection of industry papers.

These document provide extremely useful information about the viability and credibility regarding the on board electrolysis of water and their results.

1. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy (a respected, peer-reviewed journal) published a paper by Dulger & Ozcelik entitled “Fuel economy improvement by on board electrolytic hydrogen production”, in which they found that the production of hydrogen on-the-fly was able to increase fuel economy by 35-40% and reduce emissions by 40-50% in four carburetted vehicles (attached).  Obviously this is only possible if the engine is not making full use of the energy of the fuel it is supplied with, e.g. due to a slow burn (hydrogen combusts at an extremely high speed, making any fuel it is mixed with also burn faster).
   

   

FOR GENERAL RELEASE TO THE INTERNET

Proof Of Discovery:
Precedence established for
Generation and Single Ducted Use of
Mixed Atomic Hydrogen and Oxygen

Was the second man on the moon entitled to the distinction of being the first?

The information below relates to my U.S. Patent 3,262,872 issued 26 July 1966, titled, “Apparatus For The Electrolytic Production Of Hydrogen And Oxygen And For The Safe Consumption Thereof.”

 Of the 10 claims allowed, 9 read variously – beginning in claim 2 through claim 10; “…outlet in said cover for hydrogen and oxygen produced in said generator,” to,” and an outlet for said generator to conduct a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen from said electrodes and said casing.”

 The nine claim references cited by the examiner are relevant to the fact that this was the first issued patent using a common delivery duct for both gases.

 The “et al” designates the financier of the project who included the outboard alcohol booster tank, Figs. 11, 12, qualifying him as co-inventor.

 Prior patents relating to generation of hydrogen and oxygen from water are separately collected and ducted out of the generator for delivery of H2 and O2.

Perhaps the only reason such mixed gases were not discovered and used before was fear of explosion. Exhaustive tests at my laboratory revealed they were harmless compared with tank gases.

Superhot Atomic Oxy-Hydrogen Flame
Thanks to Dr. William A. Rhodes for sharing this.COMMON DUCT ELECTROLYTIC OXYHYDROGEN

Readers may wonder why I waited three decades before regaining interest to probe several unanswered questions of this system.

A friend on the Internet discovered the second patent number under my name and notified me that another party had patented a new version of this concept and was claiming discovery of a new gas.

Inspection of his patent showed his claim as discoverer was not valid, since my first patent predated his by eleven years. I was not about to allow him that recognition.

After all, I reasoned, should the second man on the moon logically claim the distinction of being the first? And so, research began resulting in this document.

The answers here are by no means conclusive, but lead to a better understanding of a very complicated reaction. If references are found proving priority over mine, then I will yield.

The name of the culprit was Yull Brown of Australia, now deceased who “invented” Brown’s Gas.

COMMON DUCT ELECTROLYTIC OXYHYDROGEN
Parameters & Variables
by Dr. William A. Rhodes, Physicist  

HISTORY

This concept was discovered in 1961 by request from a manufacturer for a new and novel means for producing torch flame temperatures beyond those of that era.