On Dec 26, 2011, at 5:30 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote:
However, in open cells, the oxygen leaves the cell as it is generated, and in closed cells, excess oxygen is still vented, my understanding (otherwise the pressure would rise very high, as oxygen isn't loaded into palladium. Some of the oxygen combines with deuterium that bubbles up, in a closed cell, at the recombiner, but the amount of deuterium in a fully loaded piece of palladium is phenomenal.
Catalytic recombiners theoretically, and in some cases practically, can work and have worked indefinitely. The problem is murphy's law. If water gets on some part of the the recombining catalyst surface then that part of the surface does not work. Explosions still can occur, even from combiners located remotely from the sealed cell. Flashback preventers fail. Operating closed electrolytic cells is very dangerous. Operating high pressure electrolytic cells is even more dangerous.
Best regards, Horace Heffner http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
