The Electrolysis of water in Hydrogen Hybrid Cars happens when an
electric current passes through the water causing the water (H2O) to
break down into its two basic elements, oxygen (O2) and hydrogen gas
(H2). It's interesting to note that Industrial applications don't use
this method of hydrogen production much since they can do it more
affordably by getting it out of fossil fuels.
The way this works
in Hydrogen Hybrid Cars is by taking an electrical power source and
connecting it to two electrodes, or plates, (or multiples of two)
usually made out of some kind of stable metal like aluminum or stainless
steel, then putting them into the water. If this cell is made correctly
then Hydrogen will form on the cathode (metal plate that's negatively
charged), and oxygen will form on the anode (metal plate that's
positively charged). Since there's two hydrogen molecules to every one
oxygen, molecule in water the amount of hydrogen produced is twice that
of oxygen and both are in proportion to the electrical charge that runs
through the water.
Seawater is about a
million times more conductive to electricity than pure water because of
all the electrolytes in it like salt. Many electrolytic cells also may
lack these needed electro-catalysts. Electrolysis in Hydrogen Hybrid
Cars is far more efficient with the addition of some of these
electrolytes such as salt or an acid or a base.
The history of
electrolysis dates all the way back to 1789 when Jan Rudolph Deiman and
Adriaan Paets van Troostwijk used an electrostatic machine to make
electricity and discharged it into gold electrodes placed in a Leyden
jar full of water. Then, in 1800, Alessandro Volta invented the voltaic
pile, and soon after William Nicholson and Anthony Carlisle used that
for the first electrolysis of water. Eventually, in 1869, ZĂ©nobe Gramme
invented the Gramme machine that became a cheap way to produce hydrogen
through the electrolysis of water.
Next, in The Science Behind Hydrogen Hybrid Cars - The Equations of Electrolysis, we'll look at the scientific details.
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