Hydrogen, in
combination with
electrolyzed
oxygen,
introduced
separately into
the intake
manifold of your
engine directly
from the
HydroFuture HHO
generator
systems, will
greatly
accelerate the
flame spread
during the power
stroke of your
internal
combustion
engine,
increasing the
power output
during fuel
combustion in
the cylinder of
your diesel
powered engine,
and thereby
getting more of
the vaporized
fossil fuel to
combust during
the initial part
of the power
stroke when the
explosive force
is most
effectively
utilized.
HydroFuture HHO
generator
systems are HOD
(Hydrogen on
Demand), which
makes hydroxy
gas, out of
water, when the
engine is turned
on, and then
turns back to
water when the
engine is turned
off. Hydrogen
typically
ignites 1000
times faster
than vaporized
liquid fossil
fuel. The
benefits of the
addition of
hydrogen and
oxygen in an
internal
combustion
engine,
including diesel
engines, have
been well
researched and
documented by
both the U.S.
Government and
many major
universities and
research
facilities
worldwide.
Our HydroFuture
HHO generator
systems increase
engine power
significantly,
making the
liquid fuel burn
more cleanly and
completely thus
reducing your
engine's need
for liquid
fossil fuel, and
reducing exhaust
emissions.
Emissions Tests
will show a
major reduction
in hydrocarbons
and carbon
monoxide in the
exhaust
emissions.
Diesels will
show a marked
decrease in
exhaust opacity.
Introduction
The carbon
equivalent of
180 million
barrels of oil
are burned each
day to support
the Earth’s
growing
population of 5
billion persons
search for
prosperity.
Carbon dioxide
built up in the
atmosphere has
reached levels
that are about
30 percent
higher than at
any time in the
last 160 years.
Environmental
damage and
health threats
due to air
pollution have
reached every
area of the
planet.
Continued
dependence upon
fossil fuels is
detrimental to
public health
and is a
dangerous
experiment that
may have no
point of return
for
civilization, as
we know it. Nine
Americans die
each hour due to
air pollution.
U.S. Energy
expenditures
amount to about
440 billion
dollars per
year. About 50
percent of our
energy is
produced from
foreign oil.
U.S. military
presence
throughout the
planet’s
oil-rich areas
to secure the
oil-supply lines
cost hundreds of
billions of
dollars each
year. These
great expenses
curb investment
in capital goods
and our economy
suffers.
Finding a
solution to the
difficult
problems of
energy
sufficiency,
environmental
damage, and air
pollution is
imperative. The
solution must
provide
convenience for
near-term market
acceptance and
utilize
renewable
resources.
Hydrogen as a
Combustion
Stimulant Hydrogen
burns more
rapidly than
hydrocarbon
fuels because it
is smaller and
enters
combustion
reactions at a
higher velocity,
has lower
activation
energy, and
incurs more
molecular
collisions than
heavier
molecules. These
characteristics
make it possible
to use mixtures
of hydrogen with
conventional
hydrocarbon
fuels such as
gasoline, diesel
and propane to
reduce emissions
of unburned
hydrocarbons.
Transition from
fossil fuels to
renewable
hydrogen by use
of mixtures of
hydrogen in
small quantities
with
conventional
fuels offers
significant
reductions in
exhaust
emissions. Using
hydrogen as a
combustion
stimulant makes
it possible for
other fuels to
meet future
requirements for
lower exhaust
emissions in
California and
an increasing
number of
additional
States.
Mixing hydrogen
with hydrocarbon
fuels provides
combustion
stimulation by
increasing the
rate of
molecular-cracking
processes in
which large
hydrocarbons are
broken into
smaller
fragments.
Expediting
production of
smaller
molecular
fragments is
beneficial in
increasing the
surface-to-volume
ratio and
consequent
exposure to
oxygen for
completion of
the combustion
process.
Relatively small
amount of
hydrogen can
dramatically
increase
horsepower and
reduce emissions
of atmospheric
pollutants.
Browns Gas
Browns Gas / HHO
Gas = Water
decomposed in
Hydrogen &
Oxygen by
electricity
Also called:
brown’s gas /
HHO gas /
watergas /
Rhode’s gas /
hydrogen oxygen
/ di-hydroxy /
hydroxy / green
gas / Klein gas
/ aquygen /
knallgas /
Knalgas /
oxyhydrogen.
During a Brown’s
gas mon-atomic
hydrogen (H) and
mon-atomic
oxygen (O)
flame, no energy
has to be added
because the
molecules are
already in their
simplest and
highest energy
atomic form.
This means that
“perfect”
Brown’s Gas can
have 3.8 times
the possible
“heat” energy
that an
“ordinary” H2
and O2 flame has
(442.4
Kcal/115.7
Kcal).
When separating
it into its
Brown’s Gas
state, each
liter of water
expands into
1866 liters of
combustible gas
Brown’s Gas can
only be produced
in a common
ducted
electrolyzer.
The most
efficient common
ducted
electrolyzer
design is a
series cell
parallel plate.
By not
separating the
product hydrogen
and oxygen
gasses
efficiency is
improved; when
hydrogen is in
the presence of
oxygen,
immediately
after
electrolytic
production, the
formation of
diatomic
hydrogen and
oxygen is
preceded by the
formation of
hydrogen and
oxygen molecular
structures of
increased energy
content. The
accounts for the
increasingly
efficient
electrolytic
reaction
observed in
series cell
common ducted
electrolyzers.
Brown’s Gas
cannot be stored
under the viably
high pressures
that are
necessary for
distribution.
Brown’s Gas is
optimally
consumed
immediately
after
production.
Considering the
latter two
parameters
Brown’s Gas is
inherently an
on-demand
Hydrogen Fuel
that is only
produced as
needed.
“Hydrogen-on-demand
does not need
costly
infrastructure
and makes trucks
safer”
Hydrogen-on-demand
would not only
remove the need
for costly
hydrogen
pipelines and
distribution
infrastructure,
it would also
make hydrogen
vehicles safer.
“The theoretical
advantage of
on-board
generation is
that you don’t
have to muck
about with
hydrogen
storage”, says
Mike Millikin,
who monitors
developments in
alternative
fuels for the
Green Car
Congress
website. A car
that doesn’t
need to carry
tanks of
flammable,
volatile liquid
or compressed
gas would be
much less
vulnerable in an
accident. “It
also potentially
offsets the
requirements for
building up a
massive hydrogen
production and
distribution
infrastructure”,
Millikin says.
Browns gas
definition
Brown’s Gas
(noun): Brown’s
Gas/ Brown’s-Gas
refers to a
process
discovered by a
Bulgarian born
Dr. Yule Brown a
heavy water
physicist where
water can be
hydrogen/oxygen
split up using
low voltage
causing it to
become 66.6
percent hydrogen
to 33.3 percent
oxygen and then
it can be
returned back to
being water by
using the
application of
low voltage
again. Brown’s
gas omeday will
replace
petroleum fuel
as a free clean
energy source. A
discovery that
is considered to
be a future
replacement for
petroleum fuels,
that can also
fuel be used to
weld anything to
anything and
transmute
nuclear waste
into becoming
non nuclear.
Will P Wilson,
The Discovery of
Atomic
Chemistry, 1993
based on
findings
verified by more
than forty
University
Physics
Departments
submitted by:
Will P Wilson
from Washington
on Nov. 11,
2005.
Hydrogen
Injection
The technology
of using
hydrogen as a
combustion
enhancement in
internal
combustion
engines has been
researched and
proven for many
years. The
benefits are
factual and well
documented. Our
own utilization
of this
technology, i.e.
the hydrogen
injection
system, has also
been tested and
proven both by
institutions and
in hundreds of
practical
applications in
road vehicles.
Here is a
synopsis of a
sampling of the
research that
has been done:
In 1974 John
Houseman and D.J/Cerini
of the Jet
Propulsion Lab,
California
Institute of
Technology
produced a
report for the
Society of
Automotive
Engineers
entitled
“On-Board
Hydrogen for a
Partial Hydrogen
Injection
Internal
Combustion
Engine”. In 1974
F.W. Hoehn and
M.W. Dowy of the
Jet Propulsion
Lab, prepared a
report for the
9th Inter
Society Energy
Conversion
Engineering
Conference,
entitled
“Feasibility
Demonstration of
a Road Vehicle
Fueled with
Hydrogen
Enriched
Gasoline”.
In the early
eighties George
Vosper P. Eng.,
ex-professor of
Dynamics and
Canadian
inventor,
designed and
patented a
device to
transform
internal
combustion
engines to run
on hydrogen. He
later affirms:
“A small amount
of hydrogen
added to the air
intake of
gasoline or
diesel engine
would enhance
the flame
velocity and
thus permit the
engine to
operate with
leaner air to
gasoline or
diesel mixture
than otherwise
possible. The
result was far
less pollution
with more power
and better
mileage”. In
1955, Wagner,
Jamal and
Wyszynski, at
the Birmingham,
of University
Engineering,
Mechanical and
Manufacturing,
demonstrated the
advantages of
“Frictional
addition of
hydrogen to
internal
combustion
engines by
exhaust gas fuel
reforming”. The
process yielded
benefits in
improved
combustion
stability and
reduced nitrogen
oxides and
hydrocarbon
emissions.
Roy MacAlister,
PE of the
American
Hydrogen
Association
states the “use
of mixtures of
hydrogen in
small quantities
and conventional
fuels offers
significant
reductions in
exhaust
emissions” and
the “Using
hydrogen as a
combustion
stimulant it is
possible for
other fuels to
meet future
requirements for
lower exhaust
emissions in
California and
in increasing
number of
additional
states.
Relatively small
amounts of
hydrogen can
dramatically
increase
horsepower and
reduce exhaust
emissions”.
At the
HYPOTHESIS
Conference,
University of
Cassino, Italy,
June 26-29,
1995, a group of
scientist from
the University
of Birmingham,
UK, presented a
study about
hydrogen as a
fraction of the
fuel. In the
abstract of that
study it stated:
“Hydrogen, when
used as a
fractional
additive at
extreme lean
engine
operation,
yields benefits
in improved
combustion
stability and
reduced nitrogen
oxides and
hydrocarbon
emissions”.
In the Spring of
1997, at an
international
conference held
by the
University of
Calgary, a team
of scientist
representing the
Department of
Energy
Engineering,
Zhejiang
University,
China, presented
a mathematical
model for the
process of
formation and
restraint of
toxic emissions
in
hydrogen-gasoline/diesel
mixture fueled
engines. Using
the theory of
chemical
dynamics of
combustion, the
group elaborated
an explanation
of the mechanism
of forming toxic
emissions in
spark ignition
engines. The
results of their
experimental
investigation
conclude that
because of the
characteristics
of hydrogen, the
mixture can
rapidly burn in
hydrogen-gasoline/diesel
mixture fueled
engines, thus
toxic emissions
are restrained.
These studies
and other
research on
hydrogen as a
fuel supplement
generated big
efforts in
trying to
develop
practical
systems to
enhance internal
combustion
engine
performance. A
few of them
materialized in
patented devices
that didn’t
reach the level
of performance,
safety or
feasibility that
would allow them
to reach
marketing
stages.
California
Environmental
Engineering (CEE)
has tested this
technology and
found reduction
on all exhaust
emissions. They
subsequently
stated: “CEE
feels that
reduction of
this test
verifies that
this technology
is a viable
source for
reducing
emissions and
fuel consumption
on large diesel
engines”.
The American
Hydrogen
Association Test
Lab tested this
technology and
proved that
“Emissions test
results indicate
that a decrease
of toxic
emissions was
realized: Again,
zero emissions
were observed on
CO. Northern
Alberta
Institute of
Technology.
Vehicle
subjected to
dynamometer
loading in
controlled
conditions
showed drastic
reduction of
emissions and
improved
horsepower.
Corrections
Canada tested
several systems
and concluded,
“The hydrogen
system is a
valuable tool in
helping
Corrections
Canada meet the
overall Green
Plan by:
reducing vehicle
emissions down
to an acceptable
level and
meeting the
stringent
emissions
standard set out
by California
and British
Colombia;
reducing the
amount of fuel
consumed by
increased
mileage”.
Additionally,
their analysis
pointed out that
this solution is
the most cost
effective. For
their research
they granted the
C.S.C.
Environmental
Award.
We also
conducted
extensive
testing in order
to prove
reliability and
determine safety
and performance
of the
components and
the entire
system. As a
result of these
test, we
achieved
important
breakthroughs as
far as the
designs of the
components were
concerned. We
have since
increased the
hydrogen/oxygen
production
significantly.
This has
resulted in
increased
effectiveness on
engine
performance.
The results of
this test were
able to confirm
the claims made
about this
technology: the
emissions will
be reduced, the
horsepower will
increase and the
fuel consumption
will be reduced.
From researching
the Internet we
also found the
following
information:
To best describe
how Hydrogen
Enhanced
Combustion
works, we are
providing this
excerpt from a
University
Technical
Report, written
by Mr. George
Vosper, P.Eng.
…a Hydrogen
Generating
System (HGS) for
trucks or cars
has been on the
market for some
time. Mounted on
a vehicle, it
feeds small
amounts of
hydrogen and
oxygen into the
engine’s air
intake. Its
makers claim
savings in fuel,
reduced noxious
and greenhouse
gasses and
increased power.
The auto
industry is not
devoid of hoaxes
and as engineers
are skeptics by
training, it is
no surprise that
a few of them
say the idea
won’t work. Such
opinions, from
engineers can’t
be dismissed
without
explaining why I
think these
Hydrogen
Generating
Systems do work
and are not just
another hoax.
The 2nd law of
thermodynamics
is a likely
source of those
doubts. Meaning
…the law-would
lead you to
believe that it
will certainly
take more power
to produce the
hydrogen than
can be regained
by burning it in
the engine, i.e.
the resulting
energy balance
should be
negative. If the
aim is to create
hydrogen by
electrolysis to
be burned as
fuel, the
concept is
ridiculous. On
the other hand,
if hydrogen,
shortens the
burn time of the
main fuel-air
mix, putting
more pressure on
the piston
through a longer
effective power
stroke, and in
doing so takes
more out of
work, then this
system does make
sense.
Does it work?
Independent
studies, at
different
universities,
using various
fuels, have
shown that flame
speeds increase
when small
amounts of
hydrogen are
added to
air-fuel mixes.
A study by
California
Institute of
Technology, at
its Jet
Propulsion Lab
Pasadena, in
1974 concluded:
The J.P.L.
concept has
unquestionably
demonstrated
that the
addition of
small quantities
of gaseous
hydrogen to the
primary
gasoline/diesel
significantly
reduces CO and
NOx exhaust
emissions while
improving engine
thermal
efficiency.
A recent study
at the
University of
Calgary by G.A.
Karim on the
effect of adding
hydrogen to a
methane-fuelled
engine says:
… The addition
of some hydrogen
to the methane,
speeds up the
rates of
initiation and
subsequent
propagation of
flames over the
whole
combustible
mixture range,
including for
very fast
flowing
mixtures. This
enhancement of
flame initiation
and subsequent
flame
propagation
reduces the
Ignition delay
and combustion
period in both
spark ignition
and compression
ignition
engines, which
should lead to
improvements in
the combustion
process and
performance.
What happens in
combustion
chamber is still
only a guess. In
an earlier
explanation I
suggested that
the extremely
rapid flame
speed of the
added hydrogen
oxygen
interspersed
through the main
fuel air fuel
mix, gives the
whole mix a much
faster flame
rate. Dr. Brant
Peppley,
Hydrogen Systems
Group, Royal
Military
College,
Kinston, has
convinced me
that
insufficient
hydrogen is
produced to have
much effect by
just burning it.
He feels that
the faster burn
is most likely
due to the
presence of
nascent (atomic)
hydrogen and
nascent oxygen,
which initiate a
chain reaction.
I now completely
agree.
Electrolysis
produces
“nascent”
hydrogen, and
oxygen, which
may or may not
reach the engine
as nascent. It
is more probable
that high
temperature in
the combustion
chamber breaks
down the oxygen
and hydrogen
molecules into
free radicals
(i.e. nascent).
The chain
reaction
initiated by
those free
radicals will
cause a
simultaneous
ignition of all
the primary
fuel. As it all
ignites at once,
no flame front
can exist and
without it there
is no pressure
wave to create
knock.
The results of
test at
Corrections
Canada’s, Bowen
Alberta
Institution and
other
independent test
reinforce the
belief that
combustion is
significantly
accelerated.
They found with
the HGS on,
unburned
hydrocarbons, CO
and NO, in the
exhaust were
either
eliminated or
drastically
reduced and at
the same R.P.M.
the engine
produced more
torque from less
fuel.
Recently I took
part in the
highway test of
a vehicle driven
over the same
200-kilometer
course, on
cruise control,
at the same
speed, once with
the system off
and once with it
on. A
temperature
sensor from an
accurate
pyrometer kit
has been
inserted
directly into
the exhaust
manifold, to
eliminate
thermal
distortion from
the catalytic
converter. On
average, the
exhaust manifold
temperature was
65° F lower
during the
second trip when
the hydrogen
Generating
system was
switched on. The
fuel consumption
with the unit
off was 5.13253
km/li. And
7.2481km/li.
With it on,
giving a mileage
increase of
41.2% and a fuel
savings
attributable to
the unit of
29.18%.
From the
forgoing, the
near absence of
carbon monoxide
and un-burnt
hydrocarbons
confirms a very
complete and
much faster
burn. Cooler
exhaust
temperatures
show that more
work is taken
out during the
power stroke.
More torque from
less fuel at the
same R.P.M.
verifies that
higher pressure
from a faster
burn, acting
through a longer
effective power
stroke, produces
more torque and
thus more work
from less fuel.
The considerable
reduction in
nitrous oxides (NOx)
was a surprise.
I had assumed
that the extreme
temperatures
from such a
rapid intense
burn would
produce more NOx.
Time plus high
temperature are
both essential
for nitrous
oxides to form.
As the extreme
burn
temperatures are
of such short
duration and
temperature
through the
remainder of the
power stroke,
will, on
average, be much
cooler. With
this in mind, it
is not so
surprising that
less NOx is
produced when
the HGS is
operating.
Assume a
fuel-air mix is
so lean as to
normally taking
the entire power
stroke (180°) to
complete
combustion.
Educated
estimates
suggest the
presence of
nascent hydrogen
and oxygen
decreases the
burn time of the
entire mix by a
factor of (10).
If a spark
advance of 4°
were assumed,
the burn would
be complete at
about 14° past
top dead center.
Such a burn will
be both rapid
and intense. The
piston would
have moved less
than 2% of its
stroke by the
end of the burn,
allowing over
98% of its
travel to
extract work.
The lower
exhaust manifold
temperatures
observed when
Hydrogen
Generating
System was in
use can be
viewed as
evidence for
this occurrence.
Power consumed
by this model of
the electrolysis
cell is about
100 watts. If an
alternator
efficiency of
60% is assumed,
then 0.2233
horsepower will
produce enough
wattage. Even on
a compact car, a
unit would use
less than ¼% of
its engine
output, or about
what is used by
the headlights.
The energy
regained from
burning the
hydrogen in the
engine is so
small that
virtually all of
the power to the
electrolyzer
must be
considered lost.
That loss should
not, however,
exceed V4%, so
that any
increase in the
engine’s thermal
efficiency more
than ¼% is a
real gain.
An engineering
classmate
suggested a
grass fire as a
useful analogy
to understand
combustion with
an engine. The
flame front of a
grass fire is
distinct and its
speed depends in
part on the
closeness of the
individual
blades. If grass
is first sprayed
with a small
amount of
gasoline to
initiate
combustion, them
all blades will
ignite almost in
unison. In much
the same way,
small amounts of
nascent oxygen
and hydrogen
present in the
fuel-air mix
will cause a
chain reaction
that ignites all
the primary fuel
molecules
simultaneously.
Faster more
complete burns
are the keys to
improving
efficiency in
internal
combustion
engines. Power
gained from the
increased
thermal
efficiency, less
the power to the
electrolysis
unit, is the
measure of real
gain or loss. It
follows from the
foregoing
paragraph that
even a modest
gain in thermal
efficiency will
be greater than
the power used
by an
electrolysis
unit. The net
result should
therefore be
positive. Thus
onboard
electrolysis
systems
supplying
hydrogen and
oxygen to
internal
combustion
engines, fueled
by diesel,
gasoline or
propane, should
substantially
increase
efficiencies.
While the auto
industry
searches for the
perfect means of
eliminating
harmful
emissions,
consideration
should be given
to what these
systems can do
now, since the
HG considers
reduction of
harmful
emissions even
as the engine
ages. Almost all
unburned
hydrocarbons, CO
and NO, are
eliminated.
Reducing
hydrocarbons and
CO causes a
slight rise in
the percentage
of CO2 in the
exhaust, but
less fuel is
used, the actual
quantity of CO2
produced is
reduced by
roughly the same
ratio as the
savings in fuel.
In brief,
noxious gas is
almost
eliminated and
greenhouse gas
is decreased in
proportion to
the reduction in
fuel
consumption.
Nothing I have
learned so far
has lessened my
belief that the
benefits of
using
electrolysis
units to supply
hydrogen to most
types of
internal
combustion
engines are both
real and
considerable.
Reprinted with
the permission
of George
Vosper, P. Eng.
June 1998
Roy E.
McAlister, P.E.
President of the
American
Hydrogen
Association