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MYTH:
Brown's
Gas can be used to replace normal hydrogen and
petro-gasses. Yes it can, BUT definitely Not as
usually outlined.
The biggest
problem I've seen with Brown's Gas
'home-use' outlines is the lack of understanding
of the concept of a practical power system. Why
use Brown's Gas at all, for home-use? Brown's
Gas REQUIRES a huge amount of electricity to
make. If you've got the electricity to make
Brown's Gas, just use the electricity to power
your home appliances directly.
Or use your
excess electricity to pump water up into a
storage container (using a conventional pump) to
recover with a turbine later. Why bother with
the expense, maintenance and danger of an
explosive gas?
The second
largest 'home power outline' problem I've
seen is the assumption that you can somehow get
more work out of the flame than the electricity
you've put in, so you can run an engine to make
enough electricity to make your Brown's Gas and
have electricity left over. My experimentation
has shown this to be bunk! (Hyper-Gas is a
different story, but we can't do it consistently
yet)
The third
problem with the 'home power outlines' is
that they show serious ignorance of Brown's Gas
actual characteristics and that will at least
cause loss of research time and money and at
worst loss of an entire home and lives. PLEASE
refer to the 'Brown's Gas, Books 1 and 2'. All
my comments have been experimentally
verified.
You will also
note that nowhere in the world is Brown's Gas
being used to actually power a home. That's
because it can't. People have been great for
saying the gas could do this and that, but in a
lot of cases, it simply can't, or if it could,
there are a lot better "conventional" ways of
doing it.
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Heating Applications:
Usually "Brown's
Gas home power" outlines base cooking elements
and space heating on existing hydrogen
technology, not on Brown's Gas. It is true that
hydrogen in it's di-atomic form burns at
400-800°C with a catalyst, BUT Brown's gas
in it's pure form would quickly burn up your
catalyst (usually nickel/platinum, I've burned
up a lot of it). And if you mix Brown's Gas with
air before using it in the catalyst, you would
have a gas with an energy potential many times
greater than normal di-atomic hydrogen, the
catalyst could still be destroyed, along with
the house. Also mixing Brown's Gas to burn with
normal air will cause oxides of nitrogen to be
formed.
As
for using pure Brown's Gas in a normal
burner, so
that you won't produce oxides of nitrogen,
that
is just as bad. Even Yull Brown will tell you
two things:
First,
unlike any other flame, Brown's Gas burns in
open air at about
127°C,
which isn't hot enough to use for heating, so
forget using Brown's Gas in any heating
application like water heaters, clothes dryers,
space heating furnaces, etc., you'll just be
wasting huge amounts of electrical power to make
the Brown's Gas and getting practically no heat
from the flame, UNLESS you turn it di-atomic but
then you no longer have Brown's Gas, you have
normal 2H2:O2 and just treat it as
such.
Second,
Brown's Gas causes different materials to change
to their
melting (or vaporizing) temperature and with
laser-like accuracy. If you set a cooking pot on
a pure Brown's Gas flame, the Brown's Gas flame
will burn right through the pot in seconds (or
less), even if the material has a melting point
of greater than 6000°C.
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Cooling Applications:
Again, it takes
huge amounts of electricity to make Brown's Gas.
Releasing pressurized Brown's Gas to make cold
would work, but is an extremely inefficient way
to use high grade electricity (making compressed
Brown's Gas gas), better by far to use a normal
air compressor, you'll get the same
refrigeration effect with a fraction of the
power (about thirty times less power) AND you're
not releasing combustible gasses into the
atmosphere (or exploding/imploding them in an
enclosed system).
Better yet,
simply use an "off the shelf" refrigeration
system. You have to have electrical power anyway
to make the Brown's Gas, so just run a
refrigerator. Then you can get many many times
the refrigeration effect that you can get
releasing pressurized Brown's Gas or
air.
Secondly,
using Brown's Gas as per the pioneer frigidaires
to create
refrigeration
by making heat; it wouldn't work. I grew up with
that type of refrigeration because my father's
ranch had no utility power. It wouldn't work for
the reasons mentioned previously; first a
Brown's Gas flame has no real heat unless
directed on something and second if directed on
something Brown's Gas will burn right through it
in short order. These refrigerators require a
steady or intermittent heat to be applied to a
bulb or tank of refrigerant. Burning through the
bulb will release the refrigerant.
To
make cold by reducing pressure of Brown's Gas,
we
electrolyze a liter of Brown's Gas by adding 3kW
of power, which in an hour is about 10,242 Btu
worth of electrical energy. We fill a container
of about 0.54 m3 to about 6.8 atmospheres (100
psi), at 20°C. If we do a pressure drop to
get maximum temperature change at atmospheric
pressure, we find that T1 = (P1 V1 T2) / (P2 V2)
= (1 * 3.7 * 293) / (7.8 * .54) = 15°C. We
can cool about 3.7 m3 of air by 5°C; this
is about 10 Btu. So we throw away 10,232 Btu of
electrical energy.
A four
horsepower compressor uses about 3kW worth of
electrical energy to compress 52 cubic feet per
minute to 100 psi. In an hour this is 115 cubic
meters of compressed air. If we let this air
cool and release it as per above, we get 312 Btu
of cooling.
If we used an
'off the shelf' heat pump at 3:1 CoP, we would
get 30,726 Btu cooling for the same 3 electrical
energy.
So releasing
compressed Brown's Gas WILL COOL, but hey
folks...it's
like... im-prac-ti-cal.
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