Chemistry: electrical and wave energy – Apparatus – Electrolytic
Patent
1979-08-14
1981-11-24
Andrews, R. L.
Chemistry: electrical and wave energy
Apparatus
Electrolytic
204272, 204275, 204292, 204294, 204101, C25B 900
Patent
active
043023207
ABSTRACT:
An electrolyzer device and apparatus for producing water gas at room temperature and pressures that is substantially free from impurities. An electrolyzer cell is described in which a body of carbon-containing material such as pure carbon, graphite, coal or coke is positioned in contact with water which has been rendered conductive by the addition of a solute such as sulphuric acid. A current is passed through the carbon-containing material and water thereby producing water gas as an output product. In one embodiment, the carbon-containing material is pulverized, immersed in conductive water, contacted on one side by a lining of hard carbon material such as graphite and on the other by a porous conductive electrode. In another embodiment, the carbon-containing material is provided as a series of graphite rods of each which are positioned in a conductive water-containing vessel with the rods individually surrounded by copper tubes which are open at the bottom and which have interconnected apertures above the water level in the vessel. The device is self-regulating in that the water level inside the tubes falls as the pressure inside the vessel increases to thereby provide a constant output flow rate of gas.
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