Try:
http://www.h2o2.com/intro/properties/physical.html and look at table
16
next:
http://www.h2o2.com/intro/properties/thermodynamic.html at table 5
combine to get table 9
You see that you need about 63% peroxide to convert all liquid to
steam.
Earl Colby Pottinger
>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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