Hydrogen and Oxygen from Water. VI. Quenching the Effluent from a Solar Furnace.

Abstract

Numerical integration of a set of rate equations applicable to the hydrogen-oxygen system suggests that it should be possible to recover H2 and O2 by rapid cooling of low-pressure equilibrium mixtures from a solar furnace. Using the University of Minnesota 4.2 m solar furnace, we were able to recover explosive mixtures of H2 and O2 from water which had been heated to about 2100K. The numerical calculations and the experiment are described.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 15, 1983
Accession Number
ADA127457

Entities

People

  • Edward A. Fletcher
  • Richard B. Diver
  • Stephen Pederson
  • Todd Kappauf

Organizations

  • University of Minnesota

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Communities of Interest

  • Counter IED
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Computer Programs
  • Energy
  • Engineering
  • Equations
  • Explosives
  • Flow
  • Flow Rate
  • Furnaces
  • Heat Transfer
  • High Temperature
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Military Research
  • Minnesota
  • Pressure Regulators
  • Schematic Diagrams
  • Solar Furnaces
  • United States

Fields of Study

  • Materials science

Readers

  • Combustion science or combustion engineering.
  • Finite Element Method (FEM) for solving Partial Differential Equations (PDEs)
  • Thermal Physics or Thermal Science.