This paper also has a great deal of similarity to the claims being made for HHO systems which use a modified automobile catalytic converter to re-combine the HHO into water. These catalytic converters use nano-catalysts (including Pd) embedded in a ceramic matrix (similar to catalysts used by B. Ahern) to catalyze the recombination. The claims made for HHO systems is that the heat produced by the catalyzed recombination is greater than the heat of normal 2H2+O2 recombination. Some claim that the output heat is greater than the energy supplied to electrolyze the water to form the HHO gas "mix". Is it LENR? Is it a cousin of LENR? Is it even true? Papers like this one would seem to lend credibility to the HHO experiments.
On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 5:59 AM, linuxball <linuxb...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Emaka, > > this topic is already in discussion in several vortex threads started > earlier: > https://www.mail-archive.com/vortex-l@eskimo.com/msg103422.html > https://www.mail-archive.com/vortex-l@eskimo.com/msg103439.html > > Best regards, > > Wolfgang > > On 02.07.2015 13:46, Emeka Okafor wrote: > >> Abstract: >> >> Gas flow-through microcalorimetry has been applied to study the Pd/Al2O3 >> type catalysts in the exothermic hydrogen recombination process: H2 + O2 >> H2O, in view of the potential application in the passive autocatalytic >> recombination (PAR) technology. The flow mode experiments revealed >> thermokinetic oscillations, i.e., the oscillatory rate of heat evolution >> accompanying the process and the corresponding oscillations in the >> differential heat of process, in sync with oscillatory conversion of >> hydrogen. Mathematical chaos in the rate of heat evolution has been >> confirmed. In the outburst of quasiperiodic oscillations of large >> amplitude, the instances of differential heats as high as 700 kJ/mol H2 >> have been detected, exceeding the heat of water formation (242 kJ/mol H2) >> by a factor of nearly three. Another occurrence of anomalously high thermal >> effects has been measured in calorimetric oxygen titration using 0.09 μmol >> pulses of O2 injected onto hydrogen- or deuterium-saturated catalysts, >> including 2%Pd/Al2O3, 5%Pd/Al2O3 and 2%PdAu/Al2O3. Repeatedly, the >> saturation/oxidation cycles showed the heat evolutions in certain >> individual O2 pulses as high as 1100 kJ/mol O2, i.e., 550 kJ/mol H2, again >> twice as much as the heat of water formation. It has been pointed out that >> it seems prudent for the PAR technologists to assume a much larger rate of >> heat evolution than those calculated on the basis of a standard >> thermodynamic value of the heat of water formation, in order to account for >> the possibility of large thermokinetic oscillation occasionally appearing >> in the recombination process of hydrogen. A possible relation of the >> anomalous heat evolution to an inadvertent occurrence of low energy nuclear >> reaction (LENR) phenomena is also briefly considered. >> >> >> >> >
