Hi Emaka,
this topic is already in discussion in several vortex threads started
earlier:
https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg103422.html
https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/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.
