Steam from Hydrogen Peroxide, Sugar, and Manganese

[oldgearhead455]

it is a good idea the modle rocket guys have been using H2O2 to power rockets for year and the navy powerd there torpedos with H2O2 and alchol to turn a steam turbin engine i wonder if he is using a solid catylist like the silver screens in rockets i dont think they last long

[manvstaco]

they forgot to mention that it will detonate with a #8 blasting cap! a high powered rifle, or possibly mechanical shock from an auto crash is enough to detonate this mixure..

[FreeGlobalEnergy]

The hydrogen peroxide that is sold in the supermarket is 3% H2O2 and 97 percent distilled water. It is commonly used to clean cuts and sores.

A 5% solution is used to bleach human hair.

A 99% solution is used for rocket fuel.

When pure H2O2 is used as a fuel the only by-product is water and oxygen.

A 50% solution mixed with common sugar makes a fuel that can replace home heating oil or be used directly to power a piston engine or steam turbine.

[FreeGlobalEnergy]

Sugar is a renewable source of carbon that will 'burn' during the extremely hot H2O2 decomposition using the excess oxygen that is released during the rapid H2O2 decomposition to water (H2O + O).

When the sugar + H2O2 mixture is just right, the by-product is only water and CO2 no other pollution, no NOx, no carbon monoxide. The CO2 is recycled in the biomass.

[FreeGlobalEnergy]

- If, and this is the big IF - scientists, engineers or some ingenious inventor can perfect the electrosynthesis process that makes H2O2 from renewable electricity, and get the cost down to about 3 cents per pound of 50% H2O2 then the cost per BTU (including the BTU within the sugar) would be equal or less than home heating oil and diesel.

If that is possible - WOW - that would be a really big thing!

Why is this so huge?...

[FreeGlobalEnergy]

Because if H2O2 can be created from renewable sources of electricity: wind, solar, hydro, geothermal, ocean - AND the sugar comes from renewable biomass, then we would have a renewable fuel (in liquid form) that is a convergence of all sources of renewable energy! A liquid fuel as clean as hydrogen made from a combination of all sources of renewable energy! And, unlike ethanol, there is no need for fermentation or a distillers licence.

[forrestmunden]

I like it

[hoROBod]

Why the sugar?

[gruvylzrd]

"Hydrogen Peroxide (H2O2) and almost any liquid hydrocarbon (so far, you've heard about sugar, but it could also be grain-based alcohols or ethanol, or methanol) are mixed to form the fuel. The fuel is then injected into a soda can-sized combustion chamber which is heated by glow plugs from a diesel engine. Here, the H2O2 reacts with a catalyst of Manganese Dioxide (MnO2) crystals to form the plume of vapor you saw in the opening shot of the STEAM trailer

[gruvylzrd]

This reaction liberates one oxygen atom from the hydrogen peroxide to create water and oxygen. The oxygen atom is then available to completely oxidize (burn) the hydrocarbon (the sugar - C12H22O11) at a temperature of 1200 - 2000 degrees F, which in turns superheats the water that was previously hydrogen peroxide.

[gruvylzrd]

The superheated water (steam) is then ejected at speeds ranging from Mach 2 to Mach 10, through a de Laval supersonic expansion nozzle, to drive a radial turbine at 8,000 to 60,000 rpm. the "throttle", or the speed of the turbine, is controlled much the same as in any existing engine: by regulating the flow of fuel into the combustion chamber."

[kilowatt300]

Why use a glow in the combustion chamber?

Wich the ratio of H2O2 and Methanol?

Is possible to use other catalysts? (Fe2+)?

[gruvylzrd]

for more info go to the production company's site that made the trailer you just watched. workshoponline. com. Go to the "In Development" section and choose the information guide for all the info that made me sound all smart in my above comments.

[roboticmehdi]

@gruvylzrd how does he use manganese dioxide here?