Atomic Hydrogen in the Energy Field

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Atomic Hydrogen in the Energy Field

• Faraday Lab Ltd

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Goals

• Development of scientific conception presented by
  Irving Longmuir 80 years ago.
• Investigation of hydrogen dissociation and
  recombination to get a new high efficiency fuel
  less heat source.

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Partners, Customer and Contractors

• GASINDUR Spain as the Customer
• Faraday Lab Ltd, Russia as the Contractor.
• Intellectual property 50/50 agreement between
  the Customer and the Contractor.
• All equipment and tests should be produced in
  Spain, design work and consulting must be
  organized by Faraday Lab Ltd, St-Petersburg,
  Russia.
• Subcontractor vacuum tube factory in Spain.

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The Idea

• Dissociation of hydrogen molecules produced by a
  low energy method (electric discharge in gas
  mixture of hydrogen and other gases).
• Recombination of atomic hydrogen generates extra
  heat output with small electric input.
• There are no expenses of the gas mixture in the
  dissociation-recombination cycles. It is fuel
  less technology of high efficient heating of
  working body.

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Theoretical backgrounds

• Academician Alexandrovs discovery 13 of 1962,
  Russia. Experiment with metal ball.

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Novelty

• The Academician Alexandrovs discovery of 1962
  was applied in present project for molecular
  level collision interaction between hot
  oscillating tungsten atoms (the heavy body) and
  hydrogen gas molecules (the easy body) is
  resulting to extra kinetic energy of the hydrogen
  molecules and allows their effective
  dissociation.

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Description of the Project

• The partners are involved in production of
  special gas (hydrogen) tube with tungsten
  electrodes.
• Design of this gas tube should be made by
  sub-contractor in Spain with consulting from
  Faraday Lab (Alexander V. Frolov)
• It is necessary to design the test bench with
  water cooling and heat measurement system.
• Calculations.

More information
Previous test bench made by Faraday Lab
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Previous design of the gas tube

• Standard design of vacuum tube diode.
• Hydrogen pressure 0.1 atm 0.2 atm.
• Water cooling tank.
• Safe metallic-ceramic case of the tube.

Note on the water tank
Some part of output heat are losses so real
efficiency is more than the measured one.
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The Experiments

• In previous experiments it was measured the heat
  output for the case of dissociation of hydrogen
  due to direct heating on the tungsten cathode.
• Different modes of the heating were investigated
• 120 A current from 12 VDC accumulator battery
• 50 Hz sinus current
• Current from diode rectifier bridge
• Half-period unipolar current pulses
• Anode-cathode high frequency glow discharge also
  produces dissociation and it is the target of the
  planned joint project with GASINDUR.

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Glow discharge dissociation

• In previous experiments of 2003-2004 by Faraday
  Lab it was detected that glow discharge in the
  hydrogen gas allow to increase of the efficiency.
  But this method requires application of a very
  high frequency generator. Other disadvantage of
  this method are expenses of the cathode material
  in this process since the cathode was hot in this
  desing. New design must use two cold tungsten
  electrodes to organize discharge between them.

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Conclusions

• High efficient heater can be designed as closed
  cycles of atomic hydrogen dissociation-recombinati
  on.
• The technology is radiation safe. It is not
  nuclear but molecular reactions.
• Theoretical maximum of efficiency for this design
  is about 83/1.

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Patent aspects

• Russian patent claim filled Feb. 11, 2004.
• Preparation for international patenting for the
  new design as 50-50 between Faraday Lab and
  GASINDUR.

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Contacts

• Alexander V. Frolov
• Faraday Lab Ltd
• 7-921-993-2501, 7-812-380-3844
• www.faraday.ru