My idea was that the H2 would combine with the free oxygen created from
the peroxide reacting with the catalyst. If it didn't ignite on it's own
then you could spark ignite it. Perhaps a small auxillery chamber with a
small amount of catalyst and it's own H2O2 supply would be the place to
inject the H2. This is not intended to boost power, but to add just
enough energy to sustain the reaction using 50% H2O2. Perhaps if you get
the engine started this way it would self heat enough to cut out the H2.
I think it is the latent heat needed to boil off the water in the 50%
H2O2 which is cooling and killing the rapid catalyst reaction. Once you
get the thing running hot enough to suck off some of the heat for
regenerative heating I think you could get the engine to run. I am not
able to calculate the heat released by the H2 and O reaction, but if you
do and it is higher than the amount of heat to boil off the extra water
then you got an engine.
John Carmack wrote:
At 11:21 AM 6/23/2003 -0400, you wrote:
Add a tad of H2 to the chamber to boost the temperature. Has this
been tried?
John Carmack wrote:
Replacing alcohol with hydrogen wouldn't increase temperature all that
much, and hydrogen wouldn't catalytically burn on the catalyst like
methanol does.
John Carmack
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