Cheap And Easy Hydrogen (Brown's Gas) Generator

[burt_james_esq]

I constructed an electrolyzer with a stainless steel fire extinguisher + 12 stainless steel rods. Placed it on my little Ford pickup with a 2.0 L engine. After testing and measuring I came up with the 53% increase in mileage. Used baking soda for the mix. The downfall was when I came home one night I was so tired after a long day at work that I forgot to shut the power off to it and blew the fire extinguishers seams to bits. I considered it a success.

[glennwebster]

Played around with HHO for a couple year's. I had best surface area production results with stainless steel wool. I never knew about urea. Thanks

[raymondfoster]

your all right mate, really enjoy your way of getting stuff done. always head for my workshop to get active too after watching you rob, you have an honest intelligent ability and put me to shame. when all is said and done you make me an engineer, thanks teacher keep them coming.

[yankeepirate]

Cheap&easy 5 gallon bucket high volume, a) coil 4ft x 12 inch stainless, drop in bucket, it spins open lining the inside, put ovc pipe between wraps for max flow. b) 2 inch vertical pipe in center stuffed with all thread and washers or stainless mesh so it doesn't protrude below pipe. Tap top center anode for hydrogen with 1/2 inch PVC, tap outer ring for oxygn (water) oxygen/chlorine (sea water) oxygen/nitrogen (urea) etc. Its also a self regulating rig, filling center pipe, lowering water level until gas feed line empties.

[schinderiapraemeturus]

pulse width modulation (PWM) circuitry, tune your cell to resonant frequency-gas is produced via capacitative discharge versus brute DC electrolysis. This type of gas is mono atomic H and O at highest entropy state (1L H2O/1800L gas). cell input is tuned to standing square wave modulation at high kilo-cycle frequencies. you will find harmonic 'sweet spots' where gas production is optimal at a fraction of the input wattage...so I have heard

[AnthonyKing-lizu]

Possibly quite possibly you're my favorite garage scientist or Macgyver if that's not an insult, but my intention is absolutely a compliment

[.zz.y]

The more videos you upload, the more jobs go on my whiteboard in my workshop haha. Keep up the good work, thanks.

[Caddy]

Indication of liters (or fraction of liter) produced per minute would help to evaluate this very clever and simple assembly.

[chrispwilliams]

Great video, another simple way is to use 2 balls of wire wool. Put one (+ )inside a nylon sock and sink it in the solution. Then put another (-) on top this doesn’t need to be socked but it won’t hurt.
Then switch it on and watch the gas flow 🤪

[djg]

For the spacers, you can cut half-inch PVC pipe lengthwise and use 3" lengths of this.

[russellwarren]

lol, when you mentioned sewing I was thinking that maybe you could start a side business making doilies!! lol. but in all seriousness, in the early days of computers they used to use seamstresses to wire up the rope memory because they were already highly skilled and the technique was basically identical.

[josephpark]

I got 10 years for electrolyzing baking soda water and cocain. I’ve struggled with clean energy. Jokes aside thanks for the informative video. We need this stuff out there more.

[stanleymeyer]

Prueba de poner entre ambas mallas de acero inoxidable una malla de plástico, y enrolla todo el conjunto, así logras un par de electrodos con gran área y pequeña separación. No necesitas Urea como electrolito, si la R de la celda es bien baja. Usa agua del grifo. Saludos de Américo Caorsi desde Tacuarembó - Uruguay, que siempre mira tus videos.

[scantrain]

Dear Rob,
this devise is superb in conclusion with photo voltaic. If you run PV and not consuming all electric power you can produse hydrogen with this generator and store it for later purposes. (Called Power to gas, but many said it's not eficient enough - 30% effectivity only ...) For example feed a petrol motor with hydrogen you get electric power and hot water as well. Or just use the gas for heating or cooking.
Great system! Thanks for the upload!

[shigatsuningen]

A few tips.

AdBlue is a urea solution for motor vehicles.
Urea is sold as a dry mix fertilizer under the market name Carbamide.
It is also sold at health product stores as an additive to health spa bath water.

[aaronbeck]

I just wanted to say I've been watching you for a long time and man I have learned so much from you that I never would have learned from school. And I truly appreciate such... It is the most education and the most important education I think I've ever gotten in this life. And I think you good sir. Rock On & Prosper. Tesla would be proud

[gregshafransky]

FYI I was partnered with Dr..Alex Brown who disappeared on his way to start a 50:50 diesel /water carburetor at the major US diesel manufacturer in Wisconsin. The scarier fact is they did a 3-page feature story about the deal in Business Week and ty to find the story in a periodical search at a library anywhere...you will not find that week's magazine...it has been expunged world wide..

[bodhidharmafpv]

Robert, a future video idea might be to put a cheap submersible pump in the electrolyzer. Hydrogen bubbles cling to the electrodes acting as an insulator reducing efficiency, vibrating the plates can free hydrogen and a pumped solution flowing over the plates from the bottom up could increase efficiency too. Eliminate the bubbles to increase efficiency and yield. Is there a best sonic or ultrasonic frequency for breaking the hydrogen bubbles free of the surface?

How do you separate out the oxygen from the gas stream? A cheap plastic or glass tube open at both ends would work to do this, silicone it to the inside spacers and a rubber seal at the top to the lid and put the O2 collection tube lower in the gas column.

[stl]

If you want to separate the hydrogen and oxygen, a good arrangement is some PVC pipes constructed in the basic shape of a "UU" with three uprights (If you imagine the center as one pipe). The Pipe on one side is the Cathode, the Pipe on the Other end is the Anode and the pipe in the center is for refilling. You can cap either end and store or vent as desired.
Point of Safety for everyone. I have heard that stainless steel releases Chromates in this process and is not something you want laying around and you shouldn't just pour it down the sink.

[leonunlimited]

I made one years ago and it worked great!
It was sheets of plexiglass, stainless steel and some rubber gaskets...