The current producing the inductive heating will flow primarily on the outside surface of the stainless steel reaction vessel (RV) wall due to the skin effect. Little or a reduced current will flow on the inside surface of the RV wall. No magnetic field will exist on the inside of the RV where the hydrogen is pressurized.
The magnetic field lines will be parallel to the circumference of the RV cylinder causing the heating current to flow along the skin of the RV. This is prescribed by the right hand rule. The will be a large negative electrostatic field produced by the flowing electrons which form the inductive heating current. This negative current charge will attract the positive hydrogen ions into the oxygen vacancies on the nickel oxide powder lying on the inside surface of the RV wall. This attractive force will supplement the force exerted by the electronegative oxygen atoms within the NiO at or very near the inner surface of the RV wall. At startup, the induced current will be substantial at about 10 amps. On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 2:03 PM, .:.gotjosh <ene...@begreen.nu> wrote: > Hey Mark! > Axil and I have been dancing around this idea also in a recent thread > (http://www.mail-archive.com/vortex-l%40eskimo.com/msg45022.html) > > I have a strong feeling that there are some electro-magnetic effects > playing an important role here. > > and I also found this tidbit on wikipedia: > > Nickel is a naturally magnetostrictive material, meaning that in the > > presence of a magnetic field, the material undergoes a small change in > > length.[41] In the case of nickel, this change in length is negative > > (contraction of the material), which is known as negative > > magnetostriction and is on the order of 50 ppm > > On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 19:31, Mark Iverson <zeropo...@charter.net> wrote: > > Could the magnetic field generated by the resistive heaters be inducing > some > > other effects that help promote the reaction, or inductively heat the > > Nickel??? > > > > -Mark > >
