Hi Robert, "How do those little battery powered O2 generators work?"
If you are referring to "Inogen" They are not actually oxygen genators. Rather they are oxygen concentrators. They extract free oxygen from the air while releasing the nitrogen back into the air. Later, Cliff On 3/16/20 3:54 PM, Robert Bruninga via EV wrote:
HYDROGEN Fuel Question? (actually oxygen?) As the virus spreads, and hospitals may become overloaded, I wonder how hard it would be to build a home oxygen generator. Just two electrodes in water and lots of DC from the EV or solar panels or the grid. Then venting the hydrogen, and breathing the oxygen if needed. Ignoring all the potential dangers (explosion of the hydrogen and poisonous gasses from the Oxygen electrode if the wrong metal is used. By my rough calculations it takes about 5 kW to generate 570 liters/hour of oxygen which is a bit over 8 liters per minute of normal breathing. That seems very high current consupmption. I must have made an error? I used these google facts: 8 liters per minute for normal breathing 1.4 grams of oxygen per liter 50 kWh to generate 8 kg of oxygen. How do those little battery powered O2 generators work? Bob _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
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