Produção de hidrogênio em geradores com diferentes soluções

Abstract

Cycle Diesel engines are the more used in the agricultural production and in the transportation sectors. Its economy impacts on the price of almost all the other sectors, be them production of foods, clothes, equipment, appliances or any other sector that depends of some transport. As big as the injection of hydrogen is, bigger will be the economy achieved by it. The objective of the present paper was to develop an electrolytic cell capable of producing hydrogen in the form of HHO(Gas produced by an electrolytic cell), from distilled water with sodium hydroxide (NaOH) or sodium bicarbonate (NaHCO3), through electrolysis, with the objective of testing which of these solutes is more efficient in the production of HHO. Where was evaluated the amount of gas (HHO) that the cell can produce, using sodium hydroxide (NaOH), the amount of gas (HHO) that the cell can produce, using sodium bicarbonate (NaHCO3), and which solution produces more HHO. As a result it was concluded that the use of sodium hydroxide, as a booster of the electrical conductivity of the water, is more efficient comparing with the use of sodium bicarbonate, once, consuming the same amount of electric current, the hydroxide produced more than double the amount of gas HHO.