Homemade Generator that runs on Water and Aluminium (Experiment)
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
- Many people asked "Will it run with water instead of coke?" today we find out!
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Part 2- With a mix of Water, Aluminium, and Sodium Hydroxide in the reactor, we are able to produce hydrogen gas that fuels our homemade generator.
2Al + 2NaOH + 6H2O = 2NaAl(OH)4 + 3H2
(Experimental Fun)
Aluminum naturally reacts with water but it quickly forms an aluminum oxide on the aluminum surface and that protects it from the water. I used sodium hydroxide to clean off the aluminum oxide from the Aluminium so that it could react with the water that is inside, when this happens it releases large volumes of hydrogen gas. The reaction gets hot and can produce lots of steam and chemical vapors, I ran the gas through a long pipe first to act as a condenser to help eliminate the steam and then through a water bubbler and carbon filter so it would clean out any remaining steam and and chemical vapors, the hydrogen then runs into the engine intake and is used as the fuel to run the Engine.
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What's cool about this is I had the same idea a few years ago but never got further than balanced equations that said it should be possible to produce enough hydrogen with lye and aluminum to run a small motor. So now I have a real world example to see!
On a side note- the lye does act like a catalyst and regenerates itself until it absorbs carbon from the air (CO2) or aluminum impurities creating non-reactive sodium carbonate.
The aluminum basically reverts back to it's natural form of Aluminum Oxide so if washed of lye isn't really much of a pollutant.
There are people like me that might work at aluminum machining shops that might be able to come up with cheap aluminum.
The energy density of Aluminum is higher than gasoline on a per liter basis! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density#/media/File:Energy_density.svg
Very good work!
more episodes like this please
There’s a bunch of vehicles in the woods near me. When society collapses I’ll be the only one near me with transportation. People here litter so much aluminium and there’s a river nearby
you are using acetylene gas to run engine because when you pass hydrogen through activated carbon it forms acetylene gas.(h2+c2=c2h2)
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That's cool
exelent observation!!
Acentilen gas when burned produce H2O + CO2
Suggestion, if lime is available (construction left overs), you can add baking soda (Na2CO3) + lime (CaO) + tap water to replace sodium hydroxide. That will generate hydrogen too but is safer and cheaper than NaOH is. Some illustration for one of the former viewers, Aluminum plus sodium hydroxide is highly exothermic, the water filter is to cool down the gas and remove most of the moisture. The carbon filter is to remove the residual moisture. Damp air damages the engine fast, especially when it cools and deposits water inside the chamber.
What proportions should be used? I tried and it doesn't work
did you adjust the idle screw to decrease the amount of 2 stroke oil coming into the engine?
Super dangerous - love it!
You telling me this generator is running on pure hydrogen gas only??? I need to try this for myself.
An oil for lubing the cilinders or whtever he calls it
It's just woah!!!! You are a very very good scientist congratulations!!
You need to oil that engine or it will blow up because it's a 2 stroke motor so that means you have to figure out a way of lubrication
scarlet macaw gaming did you watch the part where he filled up a gravity feed tank with two stroke oil?
i did my bad on that one
How long will it run with the aluminum you have in there and is the aluminum more expensive than the actual gasoline that it's meant to run on? And can you melt down the aluminum oxide that it is converted to so you can reuse it later for more fuel run times plus cost-effectiveness these are what the people need to know if this works then I'll try to run a 9,000 or 12,000 Watt generator off of this system
I need to tell you that this experiment is one of the best I have seen on you tube... I give you 10 out of 10....
Thanks! :)
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Circuit that when you pop a switch it starts the power to the moter until there is power after a certain delay
Verry nice setup! Cool little demonstration
i would wager that this is how that infamous "water powered car" from the 80's worked and the creator was apparently assassinated for.
You can seperate the oxygen and hydrogen without having to use harsh chemicals. Use metal plates that are stacked/held together with with screws/stoppers to keep them seperated, then just hook it up to a battery charger and electrolysis separates the hydrogen from oxygen.
You really should add a flywheel! You could eliminate the bursts of gas and keep it running longer!!
Put a hollow metal ball between carb and intake manifold atomizes and vaporizes gas doubles gas mileage and it works, please try this it works
You should get several led house lightbulbs and turn them all on.
standard 60w equivalent uses 13w. You should be able to power atleast 4-5 of them at the same time.
A gasoline engine that can run on hydrogen is the most interesting part of this video for me...
That Aluminum can cut at the beginning fucked my world up.
Hi, bro good work !!! I want to know the dosage of aluminum, water, hydroxyde sodium in grams for the realized at home thank
Yeah let’s run an engine on dog water
Many people asked "Will it run with water instead of coke?" Including Rick James Manager.
Make this with woodgas instead of H2!! PLEASE you are awesome
Yes but wood gas needs to be cleaned and it's a lot more toxic and the filters for cleaning it cost, and they are consumed very fast.
Nicht Vorhanden mm
Literally free energy
wow amazing...................thank you for sharing. If you used the bubbler system into a storage tank, weighted to give an even pressure , as in some methane systems, would that help in stabilizing the rmp's of the motor
Bravo....have you seen double chamber reactor....as gas pressure builds it pushes acid solution away from aluminum into another chamber.....automatic regulation of gas production...a go cart would be cool
I've heard of fireless steam locomotives that used caustic soda to raise steam, but producing hydrogen from it with aluminum is new to me.
caustic soda powered steam engine sounds neat, it does produce a lot of heat :)
Pretty good. I have learned I can get more energy off a ballast fluorescent off of the inverter. I'm going with solar though and hopefully to Si cells. I like your project, looks great.
You need a basket or the like with the aluminium in it to lower into the water and remove if you want to stop the reaction. Also use on a larger 240v generator to attain a higher voltage and current or to just run a motor like a lawnmower engine. Running an 11 watt bulb is insufficient for the trouble. To gain 1.5 or 2Kw of power would be really great.
you may have been asked this many times, but are you using a spark arrestor near the reaction chamber, Especially when you light the bypass? If the reaction chamber explodes, some skin may come off.
Very interesting Experimental fun. I liked how you used an ev motor from a scooter as the starter and generator very creative, what did you use to connect both engine and electric motor together ? Suggestions for your container so that it will not billow out when a lot of pressure is applied, you can put a pressure relief valve along the output line next to the top of the unit with a second bubbler setup and if your interested in storing the available gas you can compress it into an empty 20lbs. propane tank, cut out an old refrigerator compressor that still runs its built to handle gasses of this nature without causing the h2 to ingnite, remember to have a black flow suppression valve in line from a welding gas unit "most farm equipment stores will have them" just incase of a flare better to be safe then sorry. I would love to share some ideas with you if your interested, and thank you for putting this up it brightened my day
almost forgot to add something to my last message... the pressure relief valve will only let enough pressure out and still have enough pressure to operate your engine, also think about increasing the diameter of your line so theres less restriction from the small size ... this will allow you to run a two cycle engine close to 5 horse power without any power restrictions and still have enough extra power when taxing the motor with a load. if your able to get your hands on a good size piece of PVC water pipe say 6 to 10 inches in diameter and 12" long you can cap the one end with an end cap and the other end with a removable screw cap plus you can do your bubblers this way too and have a high pressure vessel to contain your gas, I am not sure where you reside but it would cost around 25 to 30 U.S. dollars to make
For accounting purposes, were there any toxic processes to make the fuel or byproducts remaining to dispose of?
The reaction is: 2Al+2NaOH+2H2O>2NaAlO2+3H2 and the engine’s combustion is 2H2+O2=2H2O. Since the engine’s only exhaust is water (ideally, but oil often burns) there is no issue with exhaust. As for the reactor, if the reaction is measured correctly and ran to completion, the only remaining chemical is sodium aluminate, which is corrosive and an irritant. Sodium aluminate is pretty useful though so its not a terrible waste product.
@@1001-u2i Thanks, not terrible necessarily but if it were a precious metal waste the tech would be hot.
@@1001-u2i not 100% you also generate NOx because air contains nitrogen and reacts during the combustion
What if you made this smaller and portable? That would be so cool!
Only Water and Aluminium? Fake title, you forget NaON
Its also working with pipe cleaner, water and aluminium. But this is not very efficient and dangerous, the reaction between sodium hydroxyd generates very much heat so the content of the reactor can boil over an the pressure can cause an explosion of the container.
Now use electrolysis, but use the generator to recharge the battery. Create a loop and see if you can build a generator that doesn't use aluminium.
S1R9A9M9 ran his Briggs 18HP mower engine 2008 on water in carb with the
high volts ignition and 10 amps from temporary only battery and then
alternator. The load voltage needed was over 1200 volts so he used bare
wire so as the high voltage had induction leakage to low voltage side of
the S1R coil assembly to raise up the low volts to very high value to
push amps through spark plug of 125 ohms. The magnetic field on the
ignition wire allowed for extension of spark time to about 34% on time
ATDC. About 100 volts necessary to overcome small electrodes of gap,
plug resistor, and the water resistance. The plastic tub hanging n side
of engine has the S1r coils, accessory spark gap, and diodes. The
original relay as used on the cars per cylinder, with inductors also
would fit inside tub, but not 100% known. Purpose was to show engine can
run with minute hydrogen generated and formation of water vapor
pressure aiding process, at lower stroke area of piston. See You Tube
videos. Web site shut down.
When the hidrogen is burned in the engine, it not turns to whater in the combustion ?
To anybody wanting to duplicate this experiment: You would want to utilize a METAL reaction chamber in which can withstand pressure (possible improvisation being using a household pressure cooker with minor modifications); possibly grind aluminum to a fine powder with a ball mill (marbels and rolling glass jar for improvisation) and lastly utilize a diy equivalent of pressure equalized addition funnel, allowing precise control over how much and how quickly you add your consumable reactant (which is why I'm thinking ball mill for Al powder).
Whatever you do, DON'T do as shown in this video, starting a run-away reaction within a NON pressure withstanding container.. Trust when I say this is a very BAD idea in which you WILL regret. And worse yet, doing so in a plastic reaction container combined with BOTH TOXIC, Flamable and Explosive gases.. REAL bad idea! Even the OP discovered this in his video, and is using a garden hose to add water in attempt to dilute the reaction and get it under control, all the while the Hydrogen gas being produced is escaping out the open cap and into the room with him.
I've got a minor 'wiff' of Hydrogen once, and I learned MY Lesson. I had been curious how elemental Lithium would behave coming into contact with water, so I figured it wouldn't be a big deal, and cut off a small sliver (extracted from Lithium AA batteries) and tossed it into the lab sink. It violently bounced around like a drunk psychotic person, and generating gas when coming into contact with drops of water in which had been in the sink. i APPARENTLY got a small whiff, and I couldn't breath, it was as if my lungs and everything was paused, I couldn't inhale, exhale, hard to describe.
This type of experiment should also be done inside a fume hood! DIY one can be made from metal shelving and wrapping thick 4mil plastic sheeting all the way around it to enclose it, and placing a box fan on top shell and then venting it outdoors thru a ceiling vent .
Try running an engine off of electrolysis but have the energy used in the electrolysis come from the engine itself. If that makes sense. I doubt it will run, but I wanna see if it does
How many Amp Hours per pound of aluminum and sodium hydroxide?
TheKlickitat it can be chemicaly calculated but you have to account for losses
This not an efficient process. 1 gram of aluminum will produce approximately 125ml of hydrogen.
The amount of electricity depends on the method used to produce it.
A fuel cell is the most efficient.
Combusting it to produce steam is the least efficient.
Running an internal combustion engine/generator falls somewhere in between.
Yeah not efficient but still cheap and easier, and also cleaner than a gas engine, this way you can run it inside.
well you could just get a gasoline generator for like 170 bucks that produces something like 800 watts. this probably produces like 10 watts.
+jort93z Was that not a standard 60-watt bulb he used first?
The only problem with this is because there are no oils or petrol lubricating the bores any more its going to wear out the piston rings and bores in no time.
Is there a possibility of adding a charging system to itself while it runs, so you don't need an external power source to start it? basically an alternator
What are the leftover byproducts of this process, and are they more or less toxic than what we are currently doing?
Will it run on memes?
What no memes run on your device
Of course
Yeah you know the wae
Maybe
It should
You could probably get more power using the motor once it is running
BRAVO et MERCI pour le partage !!
Ver nice! try to use a Stirling motor on place of combustion. You will get more efficient result.
You will need a fire cooking flame to burn water for the Stirling and automatic valve to lower flames when water is 80 degrees and to rise flames when water is 40 degrees
Runs like a Harley , very cool slap a some hard ass name on it and market the dam thing ..
can you calculate the price ratio of sodium hydroxide water and scrap aluminum VS normal fuel for the energy created? If this is actually more efficient I would be surprised
So how 'fuel efficient' is this?
By which I mean how long can the reaction sustain to create the hydrogen gas.
Or the rate of aluminum dissolving in the solution.
This could provide some insight into if this could be a good alternative in the case of emergency 'hurricane comes through, and no petrol or diesel to fuel anything'
Also once the aluminum is dissolved in the solution and it stops going, can you use electrolysis to 'burn' the solution out and leave a dry metallic film or crystal behind that would be a reacted form of aluminum which could be recycled for reuse after some chemical processing
No
A better use is filling balloons and then finding creative ways to ignite them
Truly Amazing
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Very eco friendly bro
You could make it have a power switch if u got some rechargeable batteries that took a portion of the power generated to recharge then u could use that to jump start the generator
We finally got Mr Fusion.
very nice....excellent demo...you should display a more indepth instructional on all the parts of the bubbler and the dryer so its a little more understandable for people to learn by observation...
whats happen with aluminium on the final?
That is a beautiful German Shepard
Can we make the same setup run by using H2 and O2 produced by electrolysis of water?
This setup wouldn't really make sense. You use electricity to separate hydrogen and oxygen from water, then use the hydrogen to power the combustion engine, which then spins the motor, which generates electricity. Wouldn't it be simpler and more efficient to just hook the inverter up to the battery? (not even mentioning a mains power supply)
I don't mean to argue, but I don't really think this setup makes much sense.
Would it work as an experiment? Probably.
Can it be used to do something useful? I don't think so.
imagine making a car that works with this power conversion concept
have already been patented iamajamaican.net/people/2017/05/jamaican-inventor-harlo-mayne-water-powered-car/
interesting. does it run with a short circuit as a load??
good work.. but I'm worry about the engine i think it runs on mixture of fuel and oil for lubrication reasons.. when you use only hydrogen gas the engine will burn up.
not only water, but water with sodium hydroxide, not the same
Hats off to you mate great job. But fk that reaction chamber with that much head space for gas to fill is a bomb waiting to go off.
The dog is cause of energy hahahahaha
I justlove the concise thinking and experimentation you are doing, we sure see that gasoline is not the way to go due to the pollution, how does your waste stream look and what poisonous toxic remedition is done with the spent catylyst or any other produced noxious substance(s)? Also i suggest, please, what is Brown's gas?
"Aluminium is stored electricity!": The electricity that was consumed when pure aluminium was created from Bauxit which is the clay like looking ore from which each piece of Aluminium must be created before it can be "burned" again in a process like this one here. However an impressive and dangerous looking demonstration nevertheless.
Peter Funk actually, it is stored heat. ultimately it all turns to heat
Peter Funk Yea, that is dangerous as hell. I hope it doesn’t blow up. I wouldn’t do this in my home.
Some people watching this thinks it is free energy. Probably the same people that think plugging in an electric car is emission free and costs nothing.
i don't know if u noticed but he mentioned that the Al he used was "scrap Al"...it wouldn't have been used for anything else anyways,so even though the initial energy consumed to process bauxite is not completely regenerated, he managed to produce atleast a fraction of the initial amount.....Its a completely different story if the scrap metal is recasted tho
If you consider scap Al as free, you pretty only have to calculate the cost of the NaOH. But how bad is it to flush large qtty of residual NaOH + Sodium Aluminate into the sewer?
Should be not too toxic overall... NaOH will be diluted and neutralize very soon and the Aluminate is already used in water treatment to help flocculation... Well way to go I guess!
How do you properly dispose of the toxic chemicals after its spent ??
Its the same chemical they use for drain cleaner, its safe to just pour down the drain.
What would be the best way to actually keep all the hydrogen instead of burning it?
I wouldn't recommend storing any large amounts of homemade hydrogen, if it happens to get oxygen mixed in it would be a powerful bomb, even if you filled a balloon with the gas and light the side of the balloon on fire it would explode just because there is enough oxygen around the outside of the balloon.
Hello how did you manage the problem with oil to get into the motor? a short video?! thanks for sharing this video.
What you should do is try and maker a bigger scale of this so that I can power 5 light bulbs instead of 1
What is the point of the carbon filter?
to filter out any impurities from the hydrogen gas
Impurties aurent a big deal
yeah but spelling aren't wrong is a bid deal!
What impurities are you talking about? If you use distilled water there are none…
Rob Powell shut you're an impurity
You don't want to remove carbon you want to use the heat from exhaust and a Ni (nickel catalyst) to make the H2 in to C2H2 which has a higher BTU content than just H2. about 1000btu vs 300btu. this will give the heat rate of the engine a boost. look at Sabatier reaction. I have been playing with this in what everyone calls GEET. People don't understand GEET but it is a process to seperate the H20 in to HHO (gas) with a iron catalyst so it will burn. the water jug also removes nitrogen which poisonous catalyst. GEET puts a little gasoline in the water to start but I think the aluminum Lie and water maybe the thing needed instead of gas.
Nice flashlight
@Experimental Fun
Can we use HHO instead of H2 gas from reacting aluminium + water(naoh) ?
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Where does the engine get the oil from as it is obviously a two stroke engine?
Without the oil mixed in the "petrol" it's unlike to run and last for a long time.
I think you need to Triple the size of the bottles labeled filters. This would give an excuse to make another video.
i am a big fan of yours and glad that you are back
Just goes to show just how much energy is in aluminum. It's really the only thing worth recycling. Burning plastic and wood isn't much of a waste as you may think.
What does the reaction chamber do to help the generator run
Hydrogen, cool! Try using a HHO generator to run things
where can I find that 25cc motor for my HHO to energy experiment
How does your ignition system work?
Adding sodium hydroxide is hardly running it on water.
you use a two stroke motor, he need oil lubrication that it's not demaged. sorry i saw it to late with the oil. it's a nice idear
steam powered engine would produce more power and take less effort. just need to have open fire boiling water which cycles through a tube where the pressure runs a pump to turn electric coils to generate power while the liquid goes to a second tank above the first which leaks down into the original tank to be heated again. as long as you have liquid in the tank and you can keep the pressure sealed AND you keep the heat source (fire) going you have energy. fairly easy to burn wood, cool, or you could use the electricity it produces to power a stove which is what heats the water... make it power itself. you just use the excess energy to store in batteries and then you trade those out and run your power off the batteries the engine fills up.
Hey i love your videos and it triggered me when i remembered wood gas wooood gas oh oh ohhhhhh the guy who made thos wood gas genorators i will make these in the future
You should try using gallium I've heard you can reuse the materials over and over
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2NaOH + 2Al + 2H2O => 2NaAlO2 + 3H2
The engine mint develop a knock due to lack of lubrication overtime. You may want to try a thinner oil that can make it through the carburetor. I didn't see any smoke which means the oil is not making it through the engine
Yes, I did see a little smoke, It doesn't work the best but this was just a proof of concept experiment :)
My question. How scaleable is this? Could it run a generator of enough size to power something useful?
Yes.
1- adding an asynchronous motor (It will be a much better generator and you may evan power an Xbox, TV and microwave)
2- using a car engine you can put the hydrogen in the air intake and ajusting so that the air is more than the fuel (car engines are 4 stroke so oil will go seperatly)
4- bigger reaction chamber but a wood gasifier or bio digester would be better
Soudium hydroxide has a ph of 13 when coke has a ph of 5 so water will do way better than coke because the sodium hydroxide has to neutralize the acid in the coke! And you should’ve soldered the connections you made at the start of the video and then isolated them with heat shrink tubing!
Will it work with other types of metal other than aluminum?
Can you somehow make the hydrogen gas flow more consistent, so the engine runs better?
Yeah I could have a hydrogen gas storage tank set up with a regular to regulate the the amount of gas the engine receives, there are a lot of things I could do to improve this system but i just built it as a proof of concept. :)
Thats for gas though who knows what the oil ratio would be if its running on a differnt fuel hydrogen is not a solvent so maybe it does not need as much oil? I dono im just throwin a idea out there.
I wouldnt mind making an easy moped using this method ,however. That acid method to create hydrogen seems a bit iffy.
so it really runs on water, sodium hydroxide, and aluminium.