3 Simple Ways to
Share What You Make

With Instructables you can share what you make with the world — and tap into an ever-growing community of creative experts.

PhotosPhotos

Share one or more photos of a project, recipe, or whatever you've made, quickly and easily.

Step by StepStep-By-Step

Share your step-by-step photos with text instructions of what you made so others can do it too!

VideoVideo

Share your how-to video. You'll need your embed code from a video site such as YouTube.

Hydroxy Gas Generator

Step 13Show and Tell

Show and Tell
«
  • fire below 1.jpg
  • shrinkwrapped nuts.jpg
Strange that this technology has been around since the 1800's and yet its not common knowledge with the general public.

Anyway heres a pic and the video of a hydroxy flame burning underwater.
The water has to be heated somewhat as cold water merely extinguishes the flame. Pictures of melted glass panes and glazed pebbles probably wont be that interesting, its one of those have to be there things :)



I've also included an excel spreadsheet to calculate millilitres per minute per watt which is a nice way of comparing different cells outputs.
Flat plate series cells are mostly 7MMW and up, I've never built a parallel cell so I cant say too much about them.

Some facts from me:

This tube version is 5.75MMW at the moment with probably another week of conditioning left, I expect it to easily get to 6.5MMW.
Flow rate is 600ml per minute which I expect to double seeing as it has double the square area of my flat plate series 7 cell which puts out 600ml at full chat.
Temp after 4hrs is 66ºC on the outer tube and 73ºC inside electrolyte.

Lastly a mod which appeared to drop the power requirements by ± 1A , is to apply shrink wrap to the inner spacer locknuts.
It appears that the open nuts contribute to current leakage which means additional unwanted heat
Pic attached for clarity.

« Previous StepDownload PDFView All StepsNext Step »
12 comments
May 5, 2011. 3:28 PMbatmat says:
Muito bom. Meus parabens.
Aug 6, 2010. 7:50 PMjupeter5 says:
wow i love how much detail you have put into this project. It i very insightful!!
Aug 30, 2009. 5:34 PMCrtek says:
hi...this is a stupid question, but i have to ask how can i get more imput (amps)...i mean what should i use, like a battery or something...i'm using a 12V adapter for my hho generator and the flame just isn't powerful or constant...please help
May 15, 2010. 4:37 AMbylerfamily says:
I use an adjustable car battery charger and it works well.
Apr 28, 2009. 7:31 PMmichaelchapala says:
Nice work. Much better than many previous designs that I have seen. To really maximize this concept it's necessary to think outside of the box. More input = More Output. It's totally possible to generate more than enough power for any vehicle. I will be selling a device on eBay that will allow a car to run as fast as it can go. Hydrogen on demand in almost unlimited quantities.
Nov 29, 2008. 4:26 PMcuchulain92 says:
granted that is true of electrolysis, but the key is that this is still more economical than 100% gasoline/air.
Oct 19, 2008. 1:43 PMelectric777 says:
Hi -

Do you know of any duplicators? If so how do the
duplications compare to the efficiency of yours?
Any voltage/amps or MPG measurements?

Thank you for sharing this amazing work!

e7
Sep 25, 2008. 8:56 PMNRen2k5 says:
Just nitpicking, but it won't actually boost an ICE, since the energy to electrolyze the water is ultimately coming from the engine itself and is more than the energy the hydrogen gives back in combustion.
Sep 26, 2008. 5:00 PMNRen2k5 says:
"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 a gasoline engine would enhance the
flame velocity and thus permit the engine to operate with leaner air to
gasoline mixture than otherwise possible. The result, far less pollution
with more power and better mileage."

I could carry on ad nauseum with research from the 1974 John Houseman and D.J/Cerini of the Jet Propulsion Lab, California
Institute of Technology report for the Society of Automotive
Engineers entitled "On-Board Hydrogen Generator for a Partial Hydrogen
Injection Internal Combustion Engine""

Vosper's right, but he's not talking about onboard hydrogen generation. Nice try there.

Houseman is wrong.

"However it does become laborious to quote sources, if you don't want to believe it, that's your choice most likely my comments aren't going to make any difference."

You're projecting.
Oct 6, 2008. 9:38 PMrecon506 says:
Butting in now. NRen2k5 - have you ever heard of a new-fangled contraption called RegEn Braking? It is used on the latest Chevy Tahoes. Basically, before RegEn, energy was USED to slow a car, no energy is GAINED by braking. The concept is simple, when you press on the brakes smoothly, it tells the car to activate generator motors on the axles slowing the car due to their internal friction and overall characteristics. Thus, all you have to do is set up a system like that, and every time you brake your car will dump energy into a bank of deep-cycle SLA+WGA or NiMH batteries, to be slowly released to power the HHO generator. Bottom line - listen to petercd. He obviously knows what he is talking about.
Oct 7, 2008. 4:44 AMNRen2k5 says:
It's an interesting idea, but it's effect would be very small - electrolysis and combustion are much less efficient than battery charging and electric motors.
Sep 14, 2008. 5:02 AMelectronman says:
wow, very good job..... you can put your hydroxy generator on your car, it will make your car more efficient. i've love to make one, but in indonesia it's hard and expensive to find the equipments. can you help me...? replay.....
Sep 16, 2008. 4:13 PMtbird45039 says:
when you produce hydrogen and oxygen from electrolysis you only get back 20% of the energy to used to make it
Aug 18, 2008. 8:16 PMSpencerr says:
very legit. can get confusing at times.

Pro

Get More Out of Instructables

Already have an Account?

close

All Steps Viewing
View all steps of an Instructable on the same page when you're a Pro Member.

Upgrade to Pro today!
44
Followers
14
Author:petercd
general bloke type of tinkering