I think the catalyzer might be water and something that reacts with oxygen.
Take a look here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_pressure_electrolysis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-temperature_electrolysis It think, initially the hydrogen is just to increase pressure of the system. As the temperature increases, a combination of both starts increasing the pressure inside the reactor, which cause temperature and pressure to grow, which makes more electrolysis to happen and more hydrogen to load in the nickel powder. 2011/11/23 Jouni Valkonen <jounivalko...@gmail.com> > 2011/11/23 Daniel Rocha <danieldi...@gmail.com>: > > 1.7Kg of hydrogen means 850mols of H2, or ~20,000 liters of > > hydrogen, or 20m^3 at 1bar. I guess even at 25 bar, it wouldn't fit > > in there... > > > > That is true, with 2.5 MPa pressure it would still take volume of 830 > liters. So this my idea for mistake is not plausible. It is good to > however keep in mind that in previous demonstrations there was used > about one ½ liter of hydrogen at 2.5 MPa pressure per module and in > 1MW ecat there was 300 modules and lot more piping. > > –Jouni > > -- Daniel Rocha - RJ danieldi...@gmail.com
