6. Testing Stages and issues
All experiments have their growing pains and some things will work
better than others.
You will find what mixtures work well, how many cans / grams of
aluminum per 100 miles travel.
I noticed about a cup of water was consumed with one pop can dissolved.
You will have to add water and aluminum to continue reaction, but no
additional sodium hydroxide is needed.
I havn't came up with an effective way to regulate adding water
automatically, but where there's a will, there's a way.
Same thought for adding additional aluminum to continue reactive
process.
Another problem is the the reactive process will continue when you turn
your car off until all the aluminum or water is used up.
This is the main reason this process is done outdoors so extra hydrogen
is ventilated away into atmosphere.
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One of the improvements I added recently was to connect the outlet hose
to the top of the reaction chamber to prevent some of the solution from
exiting the reaction chamber and into the bubbler. This helped
conciderably, then I connected my check valve to the lower connection
on the reaction tank, it's a one way valve that only lets air in and
not out. I routed the hose for the check valve to a higher location
than the tank to prevent solution from running into the valve.
I have also fabricated a rope and board solution to holding the chamber
in place while I drive down the road, This makes it easy to
remove the chamber and swings out of the way when you don't need it. I
had a problem with the chamber wanting to fall out the bottom of the
engine compartment, it wouldn't be good if you ran over it on the
highway. (or someone else did)
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