2010/5/10 Jones Beene <[email protected]>: > Michel, > > Can you cite the reference for this kind of bursting tube, due to internal > pressurization, having being actually performed?
Some electrolytic compressor literature: 1/ Arata ----------------- "Method of producing ultrahigh pressure gas" (US pat. 5647970, 1997, based on a JP patent filed in 1994): http://www.freepatentsonline.com/5647970.html <<FIG. 2 shows the pressure PH2 in atm produced in a metallic container made of palladium and having a 2 cm outer diameter x 5 cm and a 1.5 cm inner diameter x 4 cm when an electrolytic current of 10 A is passed. As shown, at 100 hours, a pressure of about 200 atm was produced. In 500 hours, an ultrahigh pressure of about 1000 atm will be produced.>> 2 - Celani et al ---------------- "ELECTROCHEMICAL COMPRESSION OF HYDROGEN INSIDE A PD-AG THIN WALL TUBE, BY ALCOHOL-WATER ELECTROLYTE" (JCF7 invited paper, Apr 2006): http://www.lnf.infn.it/sis/preprint/detail.php?id=4994 <<We reached a maximum value of pressure inside the hollow cathode of about 8.5atm (absolute 9.5). The maximum value of 8.5atm was imposed by the mechanical strength limit of the 50μm wall of the tube.>> Talking about this bursting hollow cathode phenomenon, it just occurred to me that it may well be responsible for the microscopic post-electrolysis craters which have been observed: in the course of long electrolysis runs hydrogen pressure builds up in sub surface voids until their thinnest wall bursts inescapably. Craters may thus not be evidence for LENRs occurring some distance below the surface, contrary to what Horace suggested in a recent post (CC-ing him). Michel
