patent · FR3132296A1
Hydrogen generator by excitation of micro-droplets of water
4 August 2023
Translated from French
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Description
The present invention relates to a device for generating hydrogen from micro-droplets of water.
There are different methods for producing hydrogen from water, such as electrolysis.
The principle behind this invention for generating hydrogen from water is to place the water under very fine droplets. With extremely fine droplets, the mass of each droplet is greatly reduced and the exchange surface area is significantly increased. Droplets on a hot surface vaporize, and by simultaneously applying very high-frequency vibrational excitation to these droplets, the hydrogen and oxygen can be separated. This principle can only work if the parameters (such as droplet size, hot surface temperature, and excitation frequency) are carefully chosen.
In agriculture and fire protection, nozzles that generate very fine water droplets are used. The flow rate of these nozzles remains low. The device of patent FR3105205 makes it possible to generate very fine water droplets at high flow rates and to vaporize these droplets.
The excitation of microdroplets can be achieved, for example, using a microwave generator. This device requires a safety enclosure to contain the microwaves. Another solution is to vibrate the hot surface with a high-frequency wave generator. This latter method requires protective measures, but much less stringent than those for using microwaves.
French patent FR3105205 describes the use of electrically polarized droplets. This polarization can help generate hydrogen in the device of this invention.
There is a diagram representing a schematic representation of the invention (1) is the water insertion point (2) is the nozzle that generates the micro-droplets (3) is the hot wall allowing the vaporization of micro-droplets and which can be subjected to a microwave field or which can be put into vibration mode, for example by a frequency generator (4) is the polarization of the micro-droplets, by polarizing the nozzle (1) and polarizing in opposite sign the hot wall (3).
Claims
A device for generating hydrogen from micro-droplets of water, the principle of which is to dissociate very fine water droplets which are then vaporized on a hot surface and simultaneously subjected to high-frequency vibratory excitation, for example of microwave type, characterized in that it comprises: -a nozzle (2) generating very fine droplets -a hot wall (3) allowing the vaporization of micro droplets. -a very high frequency wave generator allowing the dissociation of micro-droplets of water.
Provenance
- Collection
- Patents citing this work
- Original assignee
- Smorgrav Bertil
- Pages
- 6
- Method
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- Inventors
- Pierre Lecanu; Smorgrav Bertil
- Published
- 2023-08-04
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