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a touch of electricity, on 25 November 2011 - 01:23 AM, said:
here's a light bulb moment.
if you do a 2 stage process, electrolysis can separate the water into hydrogen and oxygen without effecting the glycerol.
here's why:
for electrolysis separation to occur, the substance you wish to separate must be an electrolyte.
water is an electrolyte, but glycerol (aka glycerin) is not.
so the water will turn to gas while the glycerol stays in it's molecular form.
how to separate the salts is, to me, undiscovered.
however, if you need an extremely dry, air tight chamber for testing electrostatic experiments, this is simple and cheep.
it only takes a few but no more than 12 volts DC to do so.
car battery anyone?
if you'd like, the gases released from this process are hydrogen and oxygen, so if you filter out the hydrogen and fuel your hydrogen fuel cell car then you're really got it good!
if you do a 2 stage process, electrolysis can separate the water into hydrogen and oxygen without effecting the glycerol.
here's why:
for electrolysis separation to occur, the substance you wish to separate must be an electrolyte.
water is an electrolyte, but glycerol (aka glycerin) is not.
so the water will turn to gas while the glycerol stays in it's molecular form.
how to separate the salts is, to me, undiscovered.
however, if you need an extremely dry, air tight chamber for testing electrostatic experiments, this is simple and cheep.
it only takes a few but no more than 12 volts DC to do so.
car battery anyone?
if you'd like, the gases released from this process are hydrogen and oxygen, so if you filter out the hydrogen and fuel your hydrogen fuel cell car then you're really got it good!
LOL the power required to electrolyse 5 litres of water a second isn't what you get from a car battery.
Also, things don't need to be electrolytes to be oxidised or reduced in an electrochemical cell so the idea wouldn't work properly.
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