Time-delayed apparent excess heat generation in electrolysis fusion experiments
- Purdue Univ., Lafayette, IN (United States). Dept. of Physics
This paper reports that in many recent electrolysis fusion experiments, excess heat, tritium, and neutron production have been reported as intermittent bursts. These burst phenomena are described in terms of a surface reaction mechanism involving hysteresis of deuterium solubility in palladium as a function of the metal temperature. Excess heat generation is shown to be attributable to a hitherto neglected time-delayed chemical process due to the solubility hysteresis of deuterium in palladium. Negative results of no apparent excess heat generation from light-water electrolysis experiments is attributed to the fact that the solubility hysteresis of hydrogen occurs at a higher temperature range than that for deuterium. Apparent excess heat generation is expected to be also observable in blank electrolysis experiments with light water at higher pressures.
- OSTI ID:
- 5609581
- Journal Information:
- Modern Physics Letters A; (United States), Journal Name: Modern Physics Letters A; (United States) Vol. 6:11; ISSN 0217-7323; ISSN MPLAE
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES
BETA-MINUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES
CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS
COLD FUSION
DETECTION
DEUTERIUM
ELECTROLYSIS
ELEMENTS
EVALUATION
HYDROGEN
HYDROGEN ISOTOPES
HYSTERESIS
ISOTOPES
KINETICS
LIGHT NUCLEI
LYSIS
METALS
NEUTRON DETECTION
NONMETALS
NUCLEAR REACTIONS
NUCLEI
ODD-EVEN NUCLEI
ODD-ODD NUCLEI
PALLADIUM
PLASMA PRODUCTION
PLATINUM METALS
RADIATION DETECTION
RADIOISOTOPES
REACTION KINETICS
RESEARCH PROGRAMS
SOLUBILITY
SOLVENT PROPERTIES
STABLE ISOTOPES
TEMPERATURE RANGE
TEMPERATURE RANGE 0400-1000 K
THERMODYNAMICS
TRANSITION ELEMENTS
TRITIUM
YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES