This idea originally proposed by Stanley Meyer (water powered engine) is being re marketed as an improvement to internal combustion engines. The concept considers extracting H2 from water (Hydrolysis) and mix it with the air to be burnt inside the cylinder. Is this cost effective? Is this a hoax?
What you are describing is a simple hydrogen powered vehicle which reduces pollution on the roads but to produce the hydrogen by electrolysis you still need to burn fossil fuels to generate the electricity.
You can create producer gas by passing steam through carbon (coal/coke) at high temperature and produce H2 + CO, but I don't think this would work with oil which has a chemical formula of C6H12O6 and burns to 6CO2 + 6H2O. Adding extra H2O would not help.
Many thanks Alastair. The actual proposal is to generate H2 through hydrolysis and inject H2 in the air mix that burns together with raw fuel inside an engine (either crude oil or diésel). This engine runs a generator from where a small amount of DC energy is dedicated to hydrolysis. So far I have found a reference saying that the concept is energy negative (otherwisw the wáter powered car would be a reality).
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/thermo/electrol.html
Yes,that is typical perpetual motion machines. It would take more energy to produce the electricity for the hydrogen than burning the hydrogen would generate. First law of thermodynamics.
Dear Sir,
Even though I cannot provide recorded data, we tried using similar technique and we found out hardly any improvement is found in Engine performance further the energy required to generate H2 through electricity turned out as less than the extra energy we got back.
Regards,
Abhijit Padhiary
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