This finding will most likely not be replicated if the magic is in the hydrogen and/or oxigen gas. This could become another black eye for LENR if the real cause of the excess heat is not identified..
On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 7:46 AM, Emeka Okafor <emeka.oka...@gmail.com> wrote: > Abstract: > > Gas flow-through microcalorimetry has been applied to study the Pd/Al2O3 > type catalysts in the exothermic hydrogen recombination process: H2 + O2 > H2O, in view of the potential application in the passive autocatalytic > recombination (PAR) technology. The flow mode experiments revealed > thermokinetic oscillations, i.e., the oscillatory rate of heat evolution > accompanying the process and the corresponding oscillations in the > differential heat of process, in sync with oscillatory conversion of > hydrogen. Mathematical chaos in the rate of heat evolution has been > confirmed. In the outburst of quasiperiodic oscillations of large > amplitude, the instances of differential heats as high as 700 kJ/mol H2 > have been detected, exceeding the heat of water formation (242 kJ/mol H2) > by a factor of nearly three. Another occurrence of anomalously high thermal > effects has been measured in calorimetric oxygen titration using 0.09 μmol > pulses of O2 injected onto hydrogen- or deuterium-saturated catalysts, > including 2%Pd/Al2O3, 5%Pd/Al2O3 and 2%PdAu/Al2O3. Repeatedly, the > saturation/oxidation cycles showed the heat evolutions in certain > individual O2 pulses as high as 1100 kJ/mol O2, i.e., 550 kJ/mol H2, again > twice as much as the heat of water formation. It has been pointed out that > it seems prudent for the PAR technologists to assume a much larger rate of > heat evolution than those calculated on the basis of a standard > thermodynamic value of the heat of water formation, in order to account for > the possibility of large thermokinetic oscillation occasionally appearing > in the recombination process of hydrogen. A possible relation of the > anomalous heat evolution to an inadvertent occurrence of low energy nuclear > reaction (LENR) phenomena is also briefly considered. > > > >
