Friday, July 6, 2007

HYDROGEN HARVESTING TECHNIQUE

  • A scientist at IIT Kharagpur, Debabrata Das, has patented a technique to harvest hydrogen from a commonly found strain of bacteria , providing a possible alternative to the current extraction techniques, which are quite expensive.
  • His technique induces the bacteria, Enterobacter cloacae, to discharge free hydrogen, via a fermentation process.
  • The foul smelling stain of bacteria is hardy and found in a variety of locations, including the intestines of human beings and industrial sewage from chemical factories.
  • The professor and his team are trying to induce the bacteria to yield a significant portion of its biomass as hydrogen. One way was to mix a gooey mixture of malt, yeast and glucose in a 10 litre vessel, called bio reactor.
  • At present, even though Hydrogen exists abundantly in nature, it doesn't exist in isolation and is often found hitched to carbon or oxygen as bio gas or water.
  • Isolating this bound hydrogen , in sufficient quantities to store in fuel storage devices , is what makes it expensive as a fuel. Presently, hydrogen as a fuel costs Rs 240 per kg, which is very expensive.
  • The government is looking at every possible method, from microorganisms, solar heating, electrolysis etc, to cost effectively produce hydrogen.

1 comment:

  1. I was looking at the Joe Cell thing and trying to figure it out. I
    hypothesized that most of the stuff you hear about it now is just
    disinfo. I assumed that it was an electrolysis device as it appears
    rather than some esoteric etheric device which shoots secret energy
    into your carburetor and restructures the air so that it burns.

    If one looks at a Joe Cell, one sees that it appears to work as if a
    number of electrolysis cells were connected in series. [Each ring in
    the Joe cell acts as both anode on one surface and cathode on the
    other.] I decided to test gas production from electrolysis cells in
    series.

    For the same amount of power, I produced approximately 300% more
    hydrogen when six electrolysis cells were connected in series than the
    single cell control. It works. Try it yourself with test tubes and
    straight DC power. I was using 16 V DC.

    The single cell ran at 16V 70milliamps for 10 minutes and filled 3.4
    cm of the test tube with hydrogen.

    6 electrolysis cells were set in series and ran at 16V, 10milliamps
    for 60 minutes and each test tube was filled with 2.4cm of hydrogen.

    The results conservatively showed 300-400% higher H2 production than
    standard DC electrolysis. Check it out, do the experiment. Took me
    just a few minutes to set up.

    Peace,

    Joshua Gulick

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