[Stoves] Hydrogen from water increasing heat

[frank at compostlab.com]

Stovers,

If anyone is connected to a university, water lab or waste water treatment lab
and can find a working Atomic Absorption (AA) (most have switched to ICP like
us)there is an experiment that I would like to know the results of. While
having the air/ acetylene burning take the temperature using IR. Then place
the capillary tube to the atomizer in water and take another temperature. Then
carefully switch to the hotter acetylene and nitrous oxide mix and do the same. 

Not sure what that will tell us but i think if the flame is cooler with the
water means heat is removed as steam but if the temp is higher it means that
water does split and hydrogen aids combustion. Perhaps it only splits at the
higher nitrous oxide and acetylene flame and not at the lower temperatures of
air acetylene or even the lower temperatures we are working with. Knowing the
temp that it does split (if it does) could greatly help us optimize the moisture. 

In fact if we find the flame hotter we could increase the water to the
atomizer until the temperature starts to drop and that temperature is the
temperature we need to achieve. 

I think all that might work :)



Thanks

Frank

 




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