Internal combustion engine with hydrogen producing device having water and oil interface level control

摘要

A control system for maintaining a desired water level range from electrodes spaced thereabove in a layer of oil where alternating current discharge occurs from electrode down to and through water to another electrode, with the electrical discharge occurring between electrodes disposed at all times in the hydrocarbon oil layer. With the situs of reaction being confined to the oil and the interstitial boundry between the oil and water, dangerous conditions of hydrogen generation are generally obviated over most state-of-the-art methods of producing hydrogen with a highly efficient production process. Hydrocarbon gases and vapors are also produced from the oil with a cracking process occuring to some extent incumbant with the A C discharge from the electrodes through the oil to the water. This has also been found to gradually upgrade the quality of the oil remaining while some is at the same time consumed in the system. The hydrocarbon gases and vapors are also subject to hydrogen enrichment during the ongoing process. In a system with hydrogen produced being used along with hydrocarbon gases and vapors produced from the oil to run an internal combustion engine A C power developed by an A C generator driven by the engine flows through a current transformer to a step transformer increasing the A C voltage applied to the electrodes used in the process. A C current being sensed develops a D C signal, through a rectifier, proportional to the A C power current being fed to the electrodes. The D C signal is passed through control circuity to activate individual relay controls when the signal level falls below a desired level and rises above a desired level. This is effective to, at preset signal levels, activate a pump or open a drain cock for removing water from the tank or another pump (or reversal of a pump) to feed water back to the tank to maintain the water level in the tank within a desired range consistent with desired rates of hydrogen generation through the process.