Design and development of zero carbon hydrogen hydrogen oxygen gas burners

Abstract

Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) consists of light hydrocarbon compounds propane (C3H8) and butane (C4H10).LPG directly depends on the Fossil fuel extraction and the byproduct of oil and gas industries. LPG finds numerous applications in Petrochemical industries and auto gas. It is also used for Heating and Cooking. Cooking system using LPG is constructed with LPG cylinder, controller for controlling the pressure and a tube to connect pressure controller with the burner. From the study taken by UNDP revealed that average LPG supply per capita is 60 Kg which equals to the half the amount of current production in the world. As the fossil fuels are currently extinct it is not possible to supply these much quantity in future. LPG burner is highly explosive and as it is extracted from nonrenewable resource adequate amount of supply of LPG becomes an issue. Moreover carbon deposits inside the burner needs frequent replacement. It releases CO mixtures of about 20 to 200 ppm which cause an unhealthy condition for human beings. Leakage of LPG makes the entire system to explode. To overcome these disadvantages pollution free Oxy Hydrogen gas burners are proposed which has no Carbon deposits over the burners and vessels. This paper presents a novel idea of designing an efficient Hydrogen Hydrogen Oxygen (HHO) cooking gas burner which replaces the normal LPG burner for cooking. Oxy hydrogen gas is produced from water which forms a renewable resource. Electronic pulse width modulation circuits are designed to maintain the temperature of dry cells and it is used to control the flow rate of the gas. The Oxy hydrogen gas produced from the dry cells is filtered and passed through a flash back arrester which is the safety material to prevent the back fire. It is then passed through the specially designed HHO cooking burner. From the nozzle of the burner the gas flows out and it is fired for cooking purposes.