I was thinking if it is possible to use a fuel cell membrane to produce very clean deuterium from heavy water for a fusor. If you use electrolysis you have to dry the gas, but from a fuel cell you get over 99.99% clean hydrogen through the proton exchange membrane. Or am I mistaken, does water seep through the membrane too?
Such a membrane can be bought cheaply on ebay, for example from some toy renewable energy construction set or separately.
Now I am wondering, can I use such a membrane to transport deuterium instead of protons too? Any comments or remarks? What do the experts and scientists say, I am very curious.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_cell
Get the cell:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Reversible-PEM- ... 27d8d13736
http://www.ebay.de/itm/Brennstoffzelle- ... 2a34a2a2ef
Or just the membrane:
http://www.ebay.de/itm/PEM-Membran-fur- ... 2a31966103
PEM fuel cell membrane for clean deuterium production?
Re: PEM fuel cell membrane for clean deuterium production?
Here is another link on PEM electrolysis claiming 99.999% gas purity.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PEM_electrolysis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PEM_electrolysis
Re: PEM fuel cell membrane for clean deuterium production?
And here is someone who has already done it, but not much information otherwise... http://www.radiantmatter.com/content/ne ... g-pem-cell
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Re: PEM fuel cell membrane for clean deuterium production?
Hi Alexander.
There's an Edit button so you can extend your original post instead of creating back-to-back messages.
Good idea, PEM fuel cells for D2 generation. You must have had your back turned when
a very detailed project description was posted on fusor.net a few weeks ago
by Tucker Sandbakken and Jason Syndergaard:
viewtopic.php?t=9435
Thanks for presenting some other links.
Why not start with one of the above, and replicate or improve the design?
There's an Edit button so you can extend your original post instead of creating back-to-back messages.
Good idea, PEM fuel cells for D2 generation. You must have had your back turned when
a very detailed project description was posted on fusor.net a few weeks ago
by Tucker Sandbakken and Jason Syndergaard:
viewtopic.php?t=9435
Thanks for presenting some other links.
Why not start with one of the above, and replicate or improve the design?
All models are wrong; some models are useful. -- George Box