On Sep 2, 2007, at 7:28 AM, Jones Beene wrote:
However, almost any tightly woven fabric - the ones
classified as "non-breathable" will preferentially
pass H2 due to its much higher mobility and smaller
molecular size. H2 permeates through extremely tight
fabric weave as if it were no more than an open
screen, whereas most of the O2 can be blocked, to the
degree that the fabric is "non-breathable."
It would seem that such an optimized tightly woven
fabric, stretched as a "drumhead" over any common
manifold electrolysis cell, would be greatly effective
in changing the ratio of mixed gases away from
stoichiometric levels of flamability. This need not be
a super-high purity separation to be effective for an
intended purpose ...
There may be some difficulties with this idea.
"The results also provide evidence that mixtures of hydrogen and air
in the SSDA can undergo detonation at a minimum hydrogen
concentration of 15 percent at 300K, while at 650K, such mixtures can
undergo detonation at hydrogen concentration down to 9 percent. "
http://www.dne.bnl.gov/atd-mag/htcf.html
Horace Heffner
http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
