What is HHO
What is HHO?
HHO – This is the chemical abbreviation of Oxy-hydrogen gas.
The homogeneous gas mixture of hydrogen and oxygen after separation. It is also called Bang gas and Knall gas in German. The proportion of the HHO is two parts of Hydrogen and 1 part of Oxygen with a purity of 99.95%
In 1832, Michael Faraday discovered the method of electrolysis, which helps separate the ingredients of water H2O.
Electrolysis is the most known method of producing oxy-hydrogen (HHO) gas. However, there are also other methods of producing hydrogen or oxy-hydrogen. Of course, starting and stopping a process like electrolysis is not easy.
Electrolysis is a chemical decomposition that passes an electric current through a liquid or solution containing ions. I presume many of you heard about electrolysis during chemistry classes in school.
Electrolysis
Electrolysis is a stage in the separation of elements. Hydrogen and oxygen molecules from naturally occurring sources such as water use an electrolytic cell. The voltage that occurs in electrolysis is called the decomposition potential. Electrolysis is a technique that uses a direct electric current (DC) to start breaking up the molecules’ bonds. Usually, the water H2O shows its formula, which means it consists of 2 molecules of Hydrogen (H) and one molecule of Oxygen (O).
This extremely explosive, homogeneous mixture of those two gases is made of water. Of course, if you provide a spark, the HHO gas will explode, and if you try to compress it under pressure, it’s dangerous as well. People use Electrolysis to clean and preserve old artifacts.
Simply separating the non-metallic particles from the metallic ones is beneficial for cleaning a wide variety of metallic objects, from old coins to even larger objects, including rusted cast iron cylinder blocks and heads, when rebuilding automobile engines. Rust removal from small iron or steel objects by electrolysis can be done easily. In a home workshop, use simple materials such as a plastic bucket, tap water, lengths of rebar, washing soda, baling wire, and a battery charger.
The HHO can explode under pressure or when you have only a 4% density in the air and something to ignite this gas mixture. Do not try that!
The industry uses the electrolysis process for the production of:
Electrometallurgy reduces metals from metallic compounds to obtain a pure form of metal using electrolysis. The method also makes Aluminum, lithium, sodium, potassium, magnesium, calcium, and in some cases copper.
Chlorine and sodium hydroxide
Sodium chlorate and potassium chlorate
Perfluorinated organic compounds such as trifluoroacetic acid by the process of electrofluorination
Electrolytic copper as a cathode, from refined copper of lower purity as an anode.
Electrolysis has many other uses:
Oxygen for spacecraft and nuclear submarines.
Hydrogen is used as fuel, using a cheap source of electrical energy.
Oxy-hydrogen is used for different purposes, such as carbon cleaning in internal combustion engines, cutting metals, graving, polishing, heating systems, etc. HHO gas has many technical purposes, such as welding, engraving, cutting, and welding of electronic components. It is also used as a supplement fuel in Internal combustion engines (HHO kits), which purposely burn the regular fuel more completely and produce more mechanical power. These kits lower the emissions of internal combustion engines and keep the engine free of carbon deposits over a specific engine part.