Engineuity process to produce hydrogen and steam on-the-fly
Companies touting on-the-fly hydrogen fuel production have been popping up all over the place recently. Just last month we reported on Hypower and Hy-Drive who have both been grabbing attention with the classic "car runs on water" line. Well, they're not alone because Israeli company Engineuity has also announced a system that can produce hydrogen inside a car, this time using common metals such as magnesium and aluminium. Perhaps, as Sam said earlier today, we need to put up an Alchemy Alert, but here's a bit more information on the process.
It makes a lot of sense of course to tackle the latent hydrogen fuel revolution for the angle of just-in-time production because transporting and storing hydrogen is hard. Really hard. Engineuity has suggested a method for producing a continuous flow of hydrogen and steam under full pressure inside a car. The system could then be used to power fuel cells with hydrogen, or a steam engine.
Engineuity's technology replaces the traditional gas tank in a car with a device called a Metal-Steam combustor that separates hydrogen out of heated water using a super heated metal coil. There is a solid waste product of the process in the form of a metal oxide which is envisaged to be collected at a fuel station for recycling.
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[Source: Physorg via HybridCarNews]
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Howard Lee Harkness 5:42PM (1/04/2007)
"Companies touting on-the-fly hydrogen fuel production have been popping up all over the place recently."
And for reasons having to do with fundamental physics and chemistry, they recede in obscurity just as quickly as soon as somebody starts taking a critical look.
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