Help My Dream Water Engine Come To Life

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About This Project

My biggest goal for this project is to see if we can run an engine with HHO gas. We got a small camping stove to work on a small HHO dry cell, so now we are going to run a Go-kart off of a bigger dry cell. This project is different because I am putting the dry cell on the Go-kart. That way, it will only make fuel when it is needed. The only thing you have to switch out is the water in the tank.

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What is the context of this research?

Ever since I can remember, I’ve been fascinated by how
things work. When I was little I used to take the battery compartments off the toys and just leave them everywhere if I could not find the batteries that went in it. I would also take broken toys apart to try and fix them and see how things work. Right now I am in school at American Fork High School. I like wood working, flying r/c planes, and figuring out how thing work. I want to give a special thanks to all the people that
helped me get my project going. I want to thank my mom and my dad for all their love and support. I all so want to thank my teachers Michelle Ormond, Robert Adamson, J.R. Crosby, and Jake Anderson for helping me with my project. I all so want to thank the companies that helped me. Reliant Fuel, and ECOTRONS.

What is the significance of this project?

Today’s forms of transportation rely primarily
on gasoline engines. There are many environmental issues related to this type of energy production. One issue is the reliance on a limited, non-renewable fuel source, most of which is imported into the U.S. Another set of issues includes emissions of CO2 and other pollutants from engines. HHO is an explosive gas made by water splitting into hydrogen and oxygen gas. This would be a renewable resource, but requires an input of energy to create the HHO.

What are the goals of the project?

My goal, was to create a HHO cell that would be
completely renewable. In order to do this I created 4 dry cells that produced HHO gas through the hydrolysis of water and baking soda. In addition, the cells were powered by solar panels. The cells were run and measured for output in liters/min HHO gas. I also measured the amount of amps coming from solar cells to determine how many amps were required to power the dry cell and if solar panels could be a possible source of electricity. My findings showed that a PWM (pulse width module) was necessary to standardize the amp output from the solar cells in order to make this technology effective. My conclusions are first that traditional solar panels by themselves are not effective for powering an HHO dry cell. They can be more effective when in combination with a PWM. This makes the process more complicated and would need to be refined in order to create a solar driven engine. My conclusions regarding the dry cells are that HHO can be produced through hydrolysis, but not enough HHO is produced to run the engine simultaneously. HHO would have to be produced and stored prior to running the engine.

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The funding I get for the project will help me get the battery banks, solar panels, chargers, and the hardwear kit. I already have all the parts for the big HHO dry cell and go-kart in the pics. So, the funding I get will let me move to the next step. The next step is getting the Go-kart running off of HHO and sun.

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Jason (Russ) Nelson JR
Jason (Russ) Nelson JR

Team Bio

Ever since I can remember, I’ve been fascinated by how things work. When I was little I used to take the battery compartments off the toys and just leave them everywhere if I could not find the batteries that went in it. I would also take broken toys apart to try and fix them and see how things work. Right now I am in school at American Fork High School. I like wood working, flying r/c planes, and figuring out how thing work.

Jason (Russ) Nelson JR

Ever since I can remember, I’ve been fascinated by how things work. When I was little I used to take the battery compartments off the toys and just leave them everywhere if I could not find the batteries that went in it. I would also take broken toys apart to try and fix them and see how things work. Right now I am in school at American Fork High School. I like wood working, flying r/c planes, and figuring out how thing work.


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