US20110139630A1 - Liquid material composed of hydrogen and oxygen, regasified gas composed of hydrogen and oxygen obtained from the liquid material, manufacturing method and device of the liquid material and regasified gas, and fuel composed of the liquid material and/or regasified gas which does not generate carbonic acid gas - Google Patents

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  • the present invention relates to a liquid material obtained from a gas composed of oxygen and hydrogen obtained by electrolysis under vibratory agitation, a regasified gas composed of oxygen and hydrogen obtained from the liquid material, a manufacturing method and device thereof, and a fuel which is composed of the liquid material and/or regasified gas and does not generate a carbonic acid gas when burning.
  • Brown's gas a mixture gas of hydrogen and oxygen is called a Brown's gas. This technology relates to developments achieved by Dr. Yull Brown in Brown Energy System Technology PTY. LTD. in Australia. See PTL 1.
  • Brown's gas is known to have a property of standing compression up to 5 kgf/cm 2 and changes back to water when the gas is pressed much, as described in PTL 2, page 6, column 9, lines 5 to 8.
  • the present invention has a first object of providing a method and a device for manufacturing a liquid material, and of providing the liquid material itself, wherein the liquid material is composed of hydrogen and oxygen and obtained from a gas composed of hydrogen and oxygen obtained by electrolyzing water under vibratory agitation, without losing peculiar properties to the gas, apart from conventional techniques of liquidizing hydrogen and oxygen separately.
  • the present invention has a second object of providing a method and a device for manufacturing a liquid material composed of hydrogen and oxygen without losing peculiar properties to a gas composed of hydrogen and oxygen obtained by electrolyzing water under vibratory agitation, for storing the liquid material for a required time period in the state of liquid, and for regasifying the liquid material at a required time point, and of providing a regasified gas composed of hydrogen and oxygen obtained by the method and device.
  • the present invention has a third object of providing a fuel which does not generate a carbonic acid gas at all when burning.
  • a manufacturing method for manufacturing a liquid material composed of hydrogen and oxygen wherein an electrolytic solution containing an electrolyte of 5 to 30 weight % is electrolyzed in an electrolytic bath by use of an electrode group provided at an interval of 3 to 10 mm in the electrolytic bath under conditions of an electric current density of 5 to 20 A/dm 2 , a bath temperature of 20 to 70° C., and strong alkali, while subjecting the electrolytic solution to vibratory agitation, and a gas composed of hydrogen and oxygen which is thereby generated is liquidized by cooling.
  • cooling when liquidizing the gas composed of hydrogen and oxygen, cooling is performed with the pressure of the gas set at 0.1 to 0.5 MPa.
  • cooling when liquidizing the gas composed of hydrogen and oxygen, cooling to ⁇ 190 to ⁇ 250° C. is performed.
  • the condition of strong alkali described above corresponds to pH 14 or more.
  • a manufacturing device for manufacturing a liquid material composed of hydrogen and oxygen the device being used for practicing or executing the above-mentioned method for manufacturing the liquid material, the device comprising:
  • A an electrolytic bath
  • B an electrode group provided at an interval of 3 to 10 mm in the electrolytic bath
  • C a vibratory agitation unit for subjecting an electrolytic solution in the electrolytic bath to vibratory agitation
  • D a collection unit for collecting a generated gas composed of hydrogen and oxygen
  • E a liquidizing unit for liquidizing the collected gas composed of hydrogen and oxygen by cooling.
  • the hydrogen and oxygen exist as liquid materials under conditions of ⁇ 190 to ⁇ 250° C. and 3 to 300 kgf/cm 2 .
  • MPa and kgf/cm 2 are used as units expressing pressures. However, these pressures are described supposing that 0.1 MPa is substantially equivalent to 1 kgf/cm 2 .
  • a manufacturing method for manufacturing a regasified gas composed of hydrogen and oxygen wherein the liquid material composed of hydrogen and oxygen, which is manufactured by the above-mentioned manufacturing method for manufacturing the liquid material composed of hydrogen and oxygen, is stored and thereafter gasified.
  • heating is performed when gasifying the liquid material composed of hydrogen and oxygen.
  • the temperature of the liquid material is returned to a normal temperature by the heating.
  • a manufacturing device for manufacturing a regasified gas composed of hydrogen and oxygen the device being used for practicing or executing the above-mentioned manufacturing method for manufacturing a regasified gas composed of hydrogen and oxygen, the device comprising:
  • A an electrolytic bath
  • B an electrode group provided at an interval of 3 to 10 mm in the electrolytic bath
  • C a vibratory agitation unit for subjecting an electrolytic solution in the electrolytic bath to vibratory agitation
  • D a collection unit for collecting a generated gas composed of hydrogen and oxygen
  • E a liquidizing unit for liquidizing the collected gas composed of hydrogen and oxygen by cooling
  • F a storage unit for storing a liquid material obtained by the liquidizing unit
  • G a regasifying unit for regasifying the liquid material.
  • the regasified gas composed of hydrogen and oxygen which is manufactured by the above-mentioned manufacturing method for manufacturing the regasified gas composed of hydrogen and oxygen, hydrogen and oxygen do not substantially react with each other under a pressure of 3 to 300 kgf/cm 2 but exist stably in gas states in a metal container.
  • a fuel which is composed of the above-mentioned liquid material composed of hydrogen and oxygen and/or the above-mentioned regasified gas composed of hydrogen and oxygen, and generates no carbonic acid gas at all while burning.
  • the present invention there are provided a method and a device for manufacturing a liquid material, and the liquid material itself, wherein the liquid material is composed of hydrogen and oxygen and obtained from a gas (initial gas) composed of hydrogen and oxygen obtained by electrolyzing water under vibratory agitation, without losing peculiar properties to the initial gas.
  • a gas initial gas
  • a method and a device for storing the above-mentioned liquid material for a required time period in the state of liquid and regasifying the liquid material at a required time point there is also provided a regasified gas composed of hydrogen and oxygen obtained by such method and device.
  • a fuel which which is composed of the above-mentioned liquid material composed of hydrogen and oxygen and/or the above-mentioned regasified gas composed of hydrogen and oxygen, and generates no carbonic acid gas at all while burning.
  • the initial gas composed of hydrogen and oxygen which is obtained by electrolysis of water under vibratory agitation, is liquidized to obtain a liquid material composed of hydrogen and oxygen.
  • the liquid material is stored and is regasified to obtain a regasified gas composed of hydrogen and oxygen.
  • the regasified gas has the same physical properties as the initial gas, and has an extremely low explosion risk. Accordingly, the liquid material composed of hydrogen and oxygen and the regasified gas composed of hydrogen and oxygen according to the present invention are applicable to an extremely wide range of use.
  • FIG. A schematic cross-sectional view of an electrolytic device including a vibratory agitation unit used in an example.
  • FIG. 2 A top view of the electrolytic device shown in FIG. 1 .
  • FIG. 3 A cross-sectional view of a gas cylinder made of SUS304.
  • FIG. 4 A top view of the gas cylinder made of SUS304 shown in FIG. 3 .
  • FIG. 5 A side view of the gas cylinder made of SUS304 shown in FIG. 3 .
  • FIG. 6 A configuration diagram of a gas compression device.
  • FIG. 7 A configuration diagram of a combustion device used in the example.
  • FIG. 8 A view representing a state of a flame obtained by burning a gas composed of hydrogen and oxygen, which is obtained by electrolysis under vibratory agitation.
  • FIG. 9 A view representing a melting state and a gasifying state of a titanium plate caused by a flame obtained by burning a gas composed of hydrogen and oxygen, which is obtained by electrolysis under vibratory agitation.
  • FIG. 10 A view representing a melting state and a gasifying state of a tantalum plate caused by a flame obtained by burning a gas composed of hydrogen and oxygen, which is obtained by electrolysis under vibratory agitation.
  • FIG. 11 A view representing a melting state and a gasifying state of a tungsten rod caused by a flame obtained by burning a gas composed of hydrogen and oxygen, which is obtained by electrolysis under vibratory agitation.
  • an electrolytic solution is electrolyzed in an electrolytic bath under vibratory agitation, thereby to generate an initial gas composed of hydrogen and oxygen.
  • Techniques which can be used to generate such an initial gas are described in PTLs, e.g., Japanese Patent Nos 1941498, 2707530, 2762388, 2767771, 2852878, 2911350, 2911393, 3035114, 3142417, 3196890, 332084 and 3854006, JP-A-10-309453, JP-A-11-253782, JP-A-2000-317295, JP-A-2001-288591, JP-A-2002-53999, JP-A-2002-121699, JP-A-2002-146597, JP-A-2005-232512, WO 02/090621 A1, WO 03/048424 A1, and WO 2004/092059 A1, which relates to inventions of the present invention.
  • the electrolysis is practicable under conditions described in the foregoing PTLs.
  • an electrolytic solution containing an electrolyte of 5 to 30 weight % is employed, and a group of electrodes is located in the electrolytic bath at intervals of 3 to 10 mm.
  • Applied conditions are a current density of 5 to 20 A/dm 2 , a bath temperature of 20 to 70° C., and strong alkali.
  • the electrolyte employed in the present invention is not particularly limited, and NaOH or KOH is usually employed.
  • Water to dissolve such an electrolyte and prepare an electrolytic solution may be of any type, and ion-exchanged water or distilled water is usually employed.
  • the concentration of the electrolyte in the electrolytic solution is not particularly limited but is generally 30 weight % or lower, preferably 25 weight % or lower, or most preferably 15 to 25 weight %. In the present invention, if the concentration of the electrolyte is less than 5 weight %, electric current flow decreases thereby increasing resistance, and electric current efficiency decreases thereby further causing increase in temperature. Consequently, decrease in generation amount of the initial gas further results. If the concentration of the electrolyte is far more than 30 weight %, the electrolyte is deposited on the electrode plate, and electrolysis efficiency decreases as a result.
  • electrolysis efficiency if the current density is increased, electrolysis efficiency preferably increases in one aspect while the bath temperature simultaneously increases thereby adversely decreasing the generation amount of the initial gas.
  • a range of 5 to 20 A/dm 2 has been found to be totally suitable from a large number of experimental results.
  • a range of 20 to 70° C. has been found to be suitable for the bath temperature in consideration of long time operation, a generation amount of the initial gas, electrolysis efficiency, etc., from a large number of experimental results.
  • the value of pH depends on the electrolyte used.
  • a suitable pH value is correlative to electrolyte, electric current density, and bath temperature.
  • the best efficiency has resulted under a condition of strong alkali of preferably pH 14 or higher, as a result of repeatedly carried out experiments in various conditions concerning electrolyte, electric current density, bath temperature, etc.
  • electrodes constituting the electrode group are preferably maintained at a constant interval. This interval is 3 to 10 mm, preferably 3 to 5 mm. The number of electrodes constituting the electrode group is preferably between 4 and 1000.
  • the initial gas composed of hydrogen and oxygen which is generated as described above can be compressed to 3 to 300 kgf/cm 2 .
  • a storage device (tank or gas cylinder) can be downsized by highly compressing a pressure of the initial gas to 3 to 300 kgf/cm 2 , and accordingly can be easily transported and mounted.
  • the compression range of 3 to 300 kgf/cm 2 is suitable for practicing the initial gas.
  • the pressure of the initial gas when liquidizing the initial gas, the pressure of the initial gas is set to 0.1 to 0.5 MPa (preferably 0.1 to 0.3 MPa), and the initial gas is cooled to ⁇ 190 to ⁇ 250° C. That is, if an initial gas is stored under a higher pressure than this range, the pressure of the initial gas is decreased to 0.1 to 0.5 MPa, and cooling is then performed.
  • (E) the unit for liquidizing the collected gas composed of hydrogen and oxygen by cooling a combination of a compression device which will be described later and a cooling device wherein liquid helium is used as a coolant may be employed.
  • the initial gas composed of hydrogen and oxygen which was obtained by electrolysis under vibratory agitation, was stored in a container made of stainless steel under pressure of 0.54 MPa, and was cooled to ⁇ 222° C. by liquid helium. Then, there occurred a greater pressure drop to ⁇ 0.03 MPa than a pressure drop caused by cooling. As can be understood from this simple test, a fact that a pressure drop occurred exceeding a volume reduction caused by cooling proves that the gas was safely liquidized. Therefore, the initial gas seems not to be a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen in molecular states like the Brown's gas but can be considered to have caused any covalent bond of hydrogen and oxygen.
  • the liquid material composed of hydrogen and oxygen is stored for a desired period of time and then gasified (regasified) upon necessity, to obtain a regasified gas.
  • gasifying the liquid material heating (including a natural temperature rise based on removal of a coolant) is performed, and preferably the temperature of the liquid material is returned to a normal temperature by heating.
  • the storage unit for storing the liquid material obtained by the liquidizing unit a metal container (a gas cylinder or a tank) made of stainless steel can be used.
  • a discharge device such as a nozzle or a burner which discharges the liquid material into air can be used.
  • the present inventor asked Hokkaido University and Nagoya University to carry out ingredient analysis of the initial gas composed of hydrogen and oxygen. Hence, atomic hydrogen (H), oxygen (O), a hydroxyl group (OH), and deuterium (D) were confirmed to be mixed in the initial gas, in addition to a hydrogen gas (H 2 ) and an oxygen gas (O 2 ).
  • “composed of hydrogen and oxygen” which qualifies the regasified gas or liquid material and the initial gas in the present specification and claims is intended to mean being composed of a material containing, as components, hydrogen atoms (including deuterium atoms, tritium atoms, etc.) and oxygen atoms.
  • the regasified gas according to an aspect of the present invention has the same composition as a hydrogen-oxygen mixture gas described in JP-A-2005-232512.
  • the gas is nonexplosive regardless of being composed of hydrogen and oxygen because gasses of the accessory ingredients are generated, well balanced as a natural process which accompanies no artificial compulsion.
  • the gasses of the accessory ingredients function as a buffer which prevents explosion caused by reaction between hydrogen and oxygen.
  • Sizes of generated bubbles extremely differ between electrolysis under vibratory agitation according to the present invention and conventional electrolysis.
  • bubbles formed by oxygen and hydrogen gases have sizes of 1 to 5 mm ⁇ which are visible for naked eyes.
  • bubbles in electrolysis according to the present invention under vibratory agitation, bubbles have sizes of 5 to 700 nm which are invisible for naked eyes, e.g., 20 to 700 nm or 5 to 200 nm, and water becomes to a state in which the entire water seems to be “milky”.
  • the gas composed of hydrogen and oxygen which is obtained by electrolysis under vibratory agitation, has been found to have a surprising property that, if the gas is liquidized by compression to 5 kgf/cm 2 and cooling to ⁇ 220° C. by using liquid helium, the gas does not return to mere water but a gas obtained by regasifying the liquid material returns to a gas (a regasified gas) having equivalent physical properties to the initial gas and exhibits the peculiar property again.
  • the Brown's gas is known to explode due to molecular friction between hydrogen and oxygen gases when compressed to 0.2 MPa or more.
  • the gas composed of hydrogen and oxygen which is obtained by electrolysis under vibratory agitation, has a peculiar property that the gas can be stored stably for a long period of time in a highly compressed state of 20 to 30 MPa and causes no explosion.
  • These wonderful properties are not lost even after the gas is liquidized and thereafter regasified. That is, in case of the regasified gas according to the present invention, hydrogen and oxygen gases do not substantially react under a pressure of 3 to 300 kgf/cm 2 but these gases can exist stably in gas states in a container.
  • the liquid material according to the present invention can exist as a liquid under conditions of ⁇ 190 to ⁇ 250° C. and 3 to 300 kgf/cm 2 .
  • the liquid material or regasified gas composed of hydrogen and oxygen according to the present invention is burnt, no carbonic acid gas is generated at all. Therefore, the liquid material or regasified gas is ideal clean energy. Further, what is generated as a result of combustion is water, i.e., an indispensable material for human being is supplied by burning the liquid material or regasified gas composed of hydrogen and oxygen according to the present invention.
  • a fuel formed of the liquid material or regasified gas composed of hydrogen and oxygen according to the present invention is capable of burning an emulsion (a water content of 70%) with an oil including a great amount of water.
  • liquid material or regasified gas composed of hydrogen and oxygen according to the present invention is used, tungsten can be gasified by heating for only one second or so. This suggests that the liquid material or regasified gas composed of hydrogen and oxygen according to the present invention has extremely high energy.
  • liquid material or regasified gas composed of hydrogen and oxygen according to the present invention thus has extremely high energy, there is hidden potentiality that elemental transmutation can be caused by using the gas.
  • the device for manufacturing the liquid material or regasified gas composed of hydrogen and oxygen according to the present invention need not be provided with a diaphragm between electrodes because the liquid material or regasified gas obtained has an extremely low explosion risk.
  • the liquid material or regasified gas composed of hydrogen and oxygen according to the present invention is useful as a fuel for a fuel cell, and has resulted in electromotive force which is greater by 5 to 7% than in case of using pure hydrogen as a fuel.
  • the liquid material or regasified gas composed of hydrogen and oxygen according to the present invention is useful as an energy source for gas electric power generator.
  • electric power was generated by supplying a portable gas electric power generator with a liquid material or regasified gas composed of hydrogen and oxygen according to the present invention with the pressure of the material or gas adjusted to 0.2 MPa.
  • An engine worked comfortably and could lighten an electric bulb of 100 W. Therefore, use as an energy source for a gas electric power generator is expected.
  • the liquid material or regasified gas composed of hydrogen and oxygen according to the present invention in a highly compressed state can be directly used as a fuel for engines of vehicles and other machineries.
  • reduction of CO 2 can be realized in a short period, and accordingly, prevention of global warming can be achieved instantaneously.
  • liquid material or regasified gas composed of hydrogen and oxygen according to the present invention can be used as a new clean fuel for home use, which will take the place of city gas or propane gas. Realization thereof is expected to come in the near future.
  • An electrolytic device comprising a vibratory agitation unit represented in FIGS. 1 to 2 was used.
  • This device is equivalent to commercial “Hydrogen/Oxygen Gas (OHMASA-GAS) Generation Device” (manufactured by JAPAN TECHNO CO., LTD.) which is a product name.
  • OHMASA-GAS Hydrophilicity-Gaussian-Gaussian-Gaussian-Gaussian-Gaqueous solution containing KOH of 15 weight % at a normal temperature was prepared.
  • electrolysis was performed while the vibratory agitation unit was driven to supply vibration of 35 to 50 Hz to vibration blades.
  • gases electrolytically generated on the electrode group (cell) constituted by plural electrodes opposed to each other were changed into as small bubbles as cannot be observed with eyes, i.e., bubbles of nano sizes.
  • the bubbles were dispersed into the solution and then discharged to the upper space of the electrolytic bath.
  • a system was employed which burns the generated gas composed of hydrogen and oxygen after dipping the gas through an alcohol bath.
  • the gas manufactured by a method as described above was subjected to a compression test, a leakage test, and a drop test as follows by an independent administrative agency BUILDING RESEARCH INSTITUTE.
  • a low pressure compression test was carried out in which a gas composed of hydrogen and oxygen obtained by electrolysis of water under vibratory agitation was injected into a gas cylinder made of stainless steel (SUS304) represented in FIGS. 3 to 5 under a pressure of 3 to 20 kgf/cm 2 applied. No explosion occurred.
  • FIG. 6 represents a state before staring the low pressure compression test wherein states of valves were as follows:
  • Disconnect the water tank pipe (denoted by a broken line) connected, in accordance with the operation procedure 1 , to the joint port to the generation device of the gas composed of hydrogen and oxygen. Connect thereto a gas pipe from the generation device of the gas composed of hydrogen and oxygen.
  • a procedure for compression to a high pressure is as follows.
  • valve F Open the valve F, and feed water to a high pressure tank having a larger capacity by a high pressure booster pump, to compress the gas. Compress the inside of a high pressure tank having a smaller capacity to 10 MPa. Further, open the valves D and E to discharge water in the high pressure tank having a greater capacity to the low pressure tank, in order to attain compression to a high pressure of 2 to 20 MPa. Then, close the valves D and E upon completion of the discharge. Operation of this operation procedure 4 is repeated until a predetermined pressure is attained. In accordance with this procedure, a high pressure compression test at 20 to 200 kgf/cm 2 was carried out actually, and no explosion occurred.
  • a “gas composed of hydrogen and oxygen obtained by electrolysis under vibratory agitation” was filled in a gas cylinder made of stainless steel (SUS304), with the gas compressed to a high pressure of 100 kgf/cm 2 and further cooled (to such a temperature that does not cause liquidizing). The gas maintained in this state was stored for about half year until Mar. 8, 2004. In this while, 100 kgf/cm 2 was kept pointed on a pressure meter gauge and never changed.
  • Screw parts of a pressure meter set on the gas cylinder were sealed with ordinary Teflon (registered trademark) member. It was confirmed that there was no gas leakage at all from those parts.
  • a gas composed of hydrogen and oxygen was filled in the gas cylinder made of stainless steel under 1 MPa, and the gas cylinder was dropped from a position at a height of 5 m. No phenomenon like an explosion occurred.
  • the car was driven to go round at a circuit track several times in particular premises while applying the same vibration as on ordinary roads until the car reached a velocity of 200 km/hour. No trouble was found concerning the gas cylinder and the pressure of the filled gas.
  • FIGS. 9 to 11 represent burning states of metals having a high melting point.
  • a device represented in FIG. 7 was used for the combustion test.
  • a photograph in FIG. 8 shows a state of flames of a gas composed of hydrogen and oxygen obtained by electrolysis under vibratory agitation, and shows a sandwich structure in which a blue flame of hydrogen is sandwiched between red flames of oxygen. Flames involved no explosion and calmly showed a bluish white burning state.
  • FIG. 9 represents a case that a gas composed of hydrogen and oxygen was burnt with a distance of about 10 mm maintained between a titanium (melting point: 1667° C.) plate and a flame of the gas burning.
  • the titanium plate was melted and gasified instantaneously.
  • FIG. 10 represents a case that a gas composed of hydrogen and oxygen was burnt with a distance of about 10 mm maintained between a tantalum (melting point: 2980° C.) plate and a flame of the gas burning.
  • the tantalum plate was melted and gasified in two to three seconds.
  • FIG. 11 represents a case that a gas composed of hydrogen and oxygen was burnt with a distance of about 10 mm maintained between a tungsten (melting point: 3380° C.) rod and a flame of the gas burning.
  • the tungsten rod was melted and gasified in two to three seconds.
  • a burning temperature of the conventional mixture gas of hydrogen and oxygen gases is regarded to be about 1200 to 2500° C. though the burning temperature varies depending on a mixing ratio. At this burning temperature, tantalum or tungsten cannot be melted. In the above combustion test, the burning temperature was set to be higher by 1000 to 2000° C. than that of the conventional mixture gas.
  • a burning temperature of this gas composed of hydrogen and oxygen obtained by electrolysis under vibratory agitation is as relatively low as about 600 to 700° C. As described above, the gas can exhibit high energy depending on target objects.
  • the gas composed of hydrogen and oxygen obtained by electrolysis under vibratory agitation according to the present invention burns without consuming oxygen in the atmospheric air.
  • combustion heat generation at a discharge port of a burner was so small that the discharge port could be touched by hands without feeling hot just after the completion of the combustion test.
  • This can be regarded to suggest that, in case of the gas composed of hydrogen and oxygen obtained by electrolysis under vibratory agitation, a chemical reaction occurs from a mechanism different from a mechanism of the conventional combustion reaction of a heat generation type.
  • Table 1 presents a cost comparison between cases of cutting steel plates (12 mm) respectively by using a gas composed of hydrogen and oxygen obtained by electrolysis under vibratory agitation, and an acetylene gas.
  • the gas composed of hydrogen and oxygen obtained by electrolysis under vibratory agitation was found to result in cost reduction by half, compared with the case of using an acetylene gas.
  • oxygen in a commercially available oxygen gas cylinder was used when burning the acetylene gas.
  • oxygen as a component of the gas was used.
  • This liquidizing device was designed to display and record a cooling temperature and a pressure of a gas on real time, and had noteworthy features that an inspection window of about 40 mm ⁇ was provided at a lower part of the device, and that a transparent grass tube of about 15 mm ⁇ for containing a liquid was set inside, so that a state of liquidizing start, conditions of a liquid, and color tones could be observed on real time with eyes through the inspection window from the outside of the device.
  • the temperature was gradually increased to gasify the gas composed of hydrogen and oxygen according to the present invention, which was stored into the gas cylinder.
  • the regasified gas was burnt, and a flame thereof was brought into contact with, for example, titanium metal. Then, the metal was observed to instantaneously sparkle and gasify.
  • liquid material or gas composed of hydrogen and oxygen according to the present invention differs from a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen
  • a commercially available hydrogen gas and a commercially available oxygen gas were mixed up in a manner as described below, and were liquidized in a manner as described above. A liquidizing temperature thereof was measured, and a color of the liquidized material was observed. Proper setting of pressures is considered to principally contribute to safe completion of such a test. This fact was a discovery.
  • the inside of the device was cooled to ⁇ 150° C. in advance.
  • Liquidizing and regasifying are not limited to the gas generation unit described above but may be applied to a gas generated from any other gas generation unit.
  • a liquidizing temperature thereof is about ⁇ 179° C. which is a “higher temperature” by about 4° C. than that of oxygen.
  • a liquid thereof has a “colorless transparent” color tone.
  • “No crystallization” occurs at a ultralow temperature of ⁇ 255° C.
  • the liquid material composed of hydrogen and oxygen according to the present invention starts gasifying when the temperature increases to be higher than the liquidizing temperature.
  • a regasified gas is considered to maintain substantially the same energy as before being gasified.
  • oxygen and hydrogen generated from electrolysis of water are considered to form a mixture gas thereof.
  • the gas composed of hydrogen and oxygen according to the present invention is considered to be a compound forming a completely “new bond of oxygen and hydrogen” from the various tests described above.

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