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Impact of HHO gas on diesel engine

performance and emissions


M. S. Gad Mahmoud M. A. Sayed Tarek A. Mahmoud
Faculty of Engineering, Canadian International Department of Computer
Fayoum University College, Cairo, Egypt Engineering,
Fayoum, Egypt +(2010) 01028826 Military Technical
+(2012) 22950756 m_m_sayed@cic-cairo.com College, Cairo, Egypt
msm19@fayoum.edu.eg t.mahmoud@mtc.edu.eg

Abstract—Green transportation will play 1. Introduction


an important role in future such as: ground The scientists try to improve environmental
and air applications. Hydrogen has a wide conditions by using green transportation (ground
variety of applications in spite of decreasing of and air applications.) There are some applications
natural resources. Depletion of fossil petroleum that deal with renewable energy and optimization
resources and continuous increase of fuel of environmental quality. The ready and limitless
consumption led to search about fuel saving availability of water makes HHO gas as an
solutions. Hydroxy gas (HHO) was produced alternative energy source.
by the electrolysis process. HHO gas was used
as an additive fuel. Effect of HHO on engine One liters of water generates 1866 liters of HHO
performance and exhaust was investigated. A gas. A 12 V DC battery supplied power to HHO
constant flow rate of 0.42 liter per minute of cell. The positive terminal of the battery is
HHO gas was introduced through the intake connected with the anode of the cell and negative
port of the engine. Tests were investigated at terminal with the cathode. The amount of HHO
different engine loads. HHO gas was enriched gas produced depends on the dimension of cell.
with air in diesel engine, the thermal HHO gas was passed through the safety check
efficiency was increased by 7% and specific valve followed by fire arrester. Investigation of
fuel consumption was reduced by 15% at full performance and emission of karanja biodiesel
load compared to diesel oil. HC emission was blends with diesel enriched with a constant flow
reduced at an average of 25% with hydroxy rate of HHO gas on comparison with neat diesel
gas. CO emission was reduced at an average of was done. Constant flow rate of 0.73 LPM of
18% in comparison to pure diesel. NOx was HHO gas through intake manifold gave promising
increased with hydroxyl gas addition at full outcome than that of neat diesel. Improved results
load condition by about 8% compared to pure are obtained for performance and emission except
diesel. HHO gas was recommended as a good for NOx emission [1].
additive to diesel oil in performance
improvement and emissions reductions. Enrichment of intake air with hydroxy gas gave
promising results compared to neat diesel fuel.
Keywords: Hydroxyl (HHO), Electrolyzer, Performance and exhaust emissions had improved
Diesel engine, Performance, Emissions. except NOx emission. Oxygen content in HHO
gas led to higher combustion efficiency is
TABLE OF CONTENTS obtained and yields better performance than pure
diesel [2]. HHO production rate was found to
1. INTRODUCTION ................................ 1 benefit from large cell gap under same conditions
2. DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF of electrolyte concentration, operating
HHO GENERATOR .......................... 3 temperature, and engine speed. The appropriate
3. EXPERIMENTAL SET UP.................... 4 production condition with low fuel consumption
4. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION ............... 5 and emission as compared to no fuel cell
condition were found to be: an anode-cathode cell
5. CONCLUSIONS .................................. 7 gap of 10 mm [3]. HHO gas improved the
REFERENCES ........................................ 8 combustion process.
BIOGRAPHY ....................................... 10

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Using of HHO gas reduced CO, HC and smoke with HHO usage. There is a reduction in NOx
emission to 15, 9 and 25%, respectively. CO, HC emission for HHO gas. CO emission was
and smoke emissions fall to 50, 40%, and 85%, decreased by 20% and fuel consumption reduced
respectively when using biodiesel with HHO. from 20% to 30% with HHO utilization [8, 9].
Applying HHO gas increased CO2 and NOx The introduction of HHO gas increases engine
concentrations by up to 6 and 10%, respectively. torque, power and thermal efficiency, while
The added hydrogen and oxygen improved carbon simultaneously reducing the formation of NOx,
perfect oxidation. NOx emissions were increased CO and HC emission.
due to the increased maximum combustion
temperature. HHO gas led to an increase in the HHO gas production rate by electrolysis depends
cylinder pressure [4]. on many factors such as electrode material,
geometrical parameters, type and concentration of
Thermal efficiency increased by 13.28% electrolyte and amount of current passed. HHO
compared with diesel fuel. Output power gas has been improved to improve engine
increased by 6% compared with diesel fuel. performance and emissions. Additional
Specific fuel consumption was reduced by 15% at equipments such as water tank, electrolyzer,
full load condition. HC emission was reduced at bubbler unit and flame arrester were added [10].
an average of 33% with hydroxy gas. CO
emission was reduced by 23%. NOx was There are two different types of HHO cells: wet
increased with hydroxy gas enrichment at full cell and dry cell. HHO dry cell uses the
load condition. Exhaust gas temperature was electrolysis process in order to produce HHO gas
increased. Smoke emission was reduced by 8% as from water, which is ionized by adding NaOH as
compared to diesel oil. HHO is carbon free fuel the electrolyte. HHO dry cell was used because of
which results in less HC and CO emissions. The its smaller size and ease to install in engines [11].
decrease in specific fuel consumption is due to the The increment of catalyst mass fraction in water
combined effect of hydrogen and oxygen which directly increases the HHO flow rate. HHO
helps in achieving complete combustion. With the system used as enrichment of diesel fuel led to
addition of HHO gas, some amount of diesel fuel increase of output power. HHO gas gave better
will be replaced by HHO gas which results in performance and emission because of extra
decreased fuel consumption [5]. oxygen, high burning velocity, and carbon free
content [12]. HHO gas as secondary fuel as a
The main factors of using HHO gas were performance and emission improver was used in
decreasing the fuel consumption and the diesel engines. HHO addition improved output
environmental pollution reduction. power, and specific fuel consumption by 3.18%,
Transportations were considered a promising and 17.4%, respectively compared to diesel fuel.
application of HHO gas using 150CC engine. CO emission was decreased by HHO gas addition
Results showed reduction 14.8% in fuel [13, 14].
consumption, 33% reduction in CO and 27.4%
reduction in HC. There was an increase of 17.9% Water electrolysis used DC current) to split water
in break power and 15.7% increase in thermal into protons, electrons, and gaseous oxygen in the
efficiency were recorded [6]. Pure hydroxy anode (positive electrode) and hydrogen in the
enriched intake air led to increase of output power cathode (negative electrode) in the electrolyzer.
and torque outputs [7]. Hydroxyl (HHO) is a HHO gas was cheaply produced from water
gaseous fuel which contains a mixture of electrolysis. The required voltage for splitting a
hydrogen (H2) and oxygen (O2) gases and can be molecule of water is approximately 1.23 V. Two
obtained directly by electrolysis of water. The metallic electrodes (as anode and cathode) were
flammability of HHO gas is much more compared immersed in aqueous solution of electrolyte and
to diesel oil. Compact HHO generators are catalyst. NaOH, KOH or NaCl were used for
designed to integrate them to internal combustion HHO production. KOH has been widely used in
engines to generate necessary amount of HHO electrolyzer for a long time due to better
required. The torque of diesel engine increased by conductivity. Hydrogen and oxygen remained in
19.1%; whereas there was a reduction in CO and their monoatomic state (a single atom per
HC emissions, and specific fuel consumption by molecule) and thus there is no atomic bond
averages of 13.5%, 5%, and 14%, respectively needed to be broken. HHO gas can have more

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energy because these bonds are never made. HHO HHO generator has been installed to the test
is an unstable state of H2O vapor. This hydrogen engine. The test gave the result such that the fuel
molecule acts as a fuel and oxygen molecule helps consumption has been reduced by 6 - 12% with an
to burn the fuel. The heating value of hydrogen is HHO gas supply of 1 LPM along with the engine
high and for the presence of oxygen the proper air intake [27].
combustion can be assured [15]. HHO addition in
diesel engine led to increase in output power and This work takes the light on HHO gas dry cell
torque by 3.81% and 2.79%, respectively and design and fabrication application. Diesel engine
reduction in specific fuel consumption to 2.78%. (4-stroke) was used to test the effect of
HHO gas has a significant amount of water vapor enrichment of fixed rate of HHO gas on engine
which participates in combustion process and performance and emissions. HHO gas was
reduced combustion temperature [16]. produced by electrolysis process using NaOH
catalyst in an electrolyte. HHO dry cell was
HHO system with diesel fuel yields higher engine designed and fabricated to produce 0.42 liter per
torque output compared to pure diesel. High minute. Performance parameters such as specific
burning velocity and low ignition energy of fuel consumption, thermal efficiency and exhaust
hydroxy air block the fuel to be fast and gas temperature were studied. Exhaust emissions
completely burnt at high speeds. A control unit such as CO, HC and NOx emissions were
has been used to obtain appropriate electrolysis recorded. All performance and emissions
voltage and current. Uniform and improved parameters in case of HHO addition were
mixing of hydroxy and oxygen content of HHO compared to diesel oil.
stimulate combustion which has a major effect on
specific fuel consumption. Wide flammability 2. DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF
range, high flame speed and short quenching HHO GENERATOR
distance of hydroxy yield diesel fuel to be The electrolyzer is a cell which breaks water
combusted completely under high speed down into hydrogen and oxygen gasses by
conditions. Wide flammability range, oxygen passing an electric current through the water.
content and absence of carbon make HHO gas Sodium hydroxy (NaOH) as catalyst and distilled
produced adequate combustion and reduction of water are used to prepare electrolyte (10% m/m).
HC and CO emissions [17]. The electrolyte was transferred to the HHO
system reservoir and filled the HHO reactor. The
Diesel engine was tested under different loads and reactor consists of 8 plates. A battery of 12 V and
with HHO flow rate from 1 LPM up to 3.3 LPM. 40 A was used as power supply. A hydroxy gas
An increase in thermal efficiency of 11.06% at flow meter was used to measure HHO production
full load and 3.3 LPM of HHO, while a reduction rate. The reactor produced 0.42 L/min hydroxy
of 4.15% was obtained at part rated load and 1 gas was 40 A. The rubber gaskets ensure a good
LPM of HHO. At high loads, CO, HC and smoke sealing of any plate to touch the neighbor plate
emissions decreased. Four factors such as space and guarantee the water and gas existence inside
between electrodes (2 mm and 3 mm), electrolyte the generator. The plates have down small holes
type (NaOH and KOH), electrolyte concentration for equalizing the water level in the cells and
(20% and 30%) and electrodes surface roughness to permit the electrons to flow under voltage
(smooth and rough). The best configuration (with drop. Two acrylic end cover plates with thickness
316L stainless steel electrodes) was with KOH at 15 mm one of them has inlet water hole and the
30% and with rough electrodes spaced 3 mm. A other has outlet gas hole, bolts, washers, nuts,
dry cell electrolyzer provided HHO gas of 0.375 fittings, bubbler, connectors, non-return valve,
LPM. Applied voltage and current, catalyst hoses and tank. The water tank ensures
amount (NaOH), number and area of electrodes continuous feeding of electrolyte to the generator.
and stacks. There were improvements in thermal A bubbler is a container partially filled with
efficiency, specific fuel consumption and exhaust water and HHO gas is fed through its bottom
emissions [18-25]. An electrolyzer consisted of 7 and avoid backfires from reaching the
serial plates at the anode, 3 mm gap and 5% electrolyzer and drying and purification of HHO
solution of NaOH. There was 14% reduction in gas from water vapor. Non-return valve between
fuel consumption, 22% reduction in HC and 23% the electrolyzer and bubbler is safety essential in
reduction in CO for 2 LPM of HHO [26]. Dry cell the backfire case.

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The plates are fabricated from stainless steel 3. EXPERIMENTAL SET UP
316L with dimension 80 x 80 x1 mm. A bubbler The experimental setup for diesel engine
is located above the electrolyzer to supply it with supplemented with hydroxy gas through dry
water electrolyte mixture for the electrolysis cell hydroxy (HHO) gas generator as shown in
process. HHO bubbles escaped to the surface of Fig.2. Hydroxy gas at constant flow rate is passed
the water in the bubbler passes to the flashback into intake manifold.
arrestor. The electrolysis of water produces a
mixture of hydrogen oxygen and their ions. The readings were taken for different engine
speeds and full load. Four-stroke single cylinder
The potential difference to be applied across the diesel engine technical specifications are
electrodes depends on the amount of gas summarized in Table 1.
generated per unit time. The reactions taking
place at the electrodes are R1, R2 and R3. Table 1 The tested diesel engine specifications
Engine parameters Specifications
Engine Model DEUTZ FIL511
Bore 100 mm
Stroke 105 mm
Displacement 824 cm
Type of injection direct
Using Faraday’s First law to calculate the Type of cooling Air
theoretical maximum production of HHO gas as
shown: An AC generator of 4.5 kW maximum power is
directly coupled to determine the engine brake
power. The engine has been equipped to measure
fuel consumption and engine speed.

Where: The engine receives air through an air box fitted


V = volume of the gas [L], with an orifice for measuring the air consumption.
R = ideal gas constant = 0.0820577 [L x atm/ (mol
Fuel consumption rate has been determined using
x K)],
I = current [A], a glass burette and stop watch.
T = temperature [K],
F = Faraday’s constant = 96485 Coulombs/ mol, The engine speed has been measured using a
p = ambient pressure [atm], digital tachometer. The engine has been warmed
z = number of excess electrons (2 for H2, 4 for O2). up before taking all readings. When the engine
reached its stable condition, the experiments have
Fig. 1 demonstrates HHO cell which adapts with been started and measurements recorded. Firstly,
diesel engine. the engine is operated with diesel fuel.

Then, the engine has been run with fixed


production rate of 0.42 liter per minute of HHO
gas. For every operating condition, the engine
speed was measured; the engine load was taken at
full load.

Exhaust gas analyzer of MRU DELTA 1600-V


model was used to measure exhaust emissions
such as CO, HC and NOx.

Fig.1 HHO cell adaption with diesel engine.

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Fig.3 Effect of NaOH concentration and supply
current on HHO productivity

1. Diesel engine 10. Piezo pressure Every square inch of plate area of dry cell
transducer produced needs 0.54 Amp. Every current supply
2. AC generator 11. Charge amplifier of 1 Amp., produced 0.064 liter per minute. The
3. Diesel tank 12. Data acquisition increase in supply current of the battery led to
card increase oh HHO gas production as shown in
4. Biodiesel tank 13. Personal computer
5. Burette 14. Exhaust gas Fig.4. Electrolyzer using NaOH catalyst produced
analyzer
more HHO gas with the same amount of catalyst
6. Air surge tank 15. Smoke meter
7. Orifice 16. Exhaust gas temp. about NaCl and KOH.
thermocouple
8. Pressure differential 17. Proximity switch Because hydrogen and oxygen contents of NaOH
meter produces more HHO gas against NaCl. HHO
9. Intake air temperature 18. Cardan shaft production rates at different mass fractions of
thermocouple catalysts were shown in Fig.4.

Fig.2 Schematic diagram of the experimental


setup

4. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION


4.1 EFFECT OF CATALYST
CONCENTRATION ON HHO
PRODUCTIVITY
Sodium hydroxide, Sodium Chloride and
potassium hydroxide are the best additives Fig.4 Effect of catalyst concentration on HHO
choices as catalysts. The percentage of the productivity.
catalyst is a main factor in evaluating the cell
current. The gas production increases with 4.2 SPECIFIC FUEL CONSUMPTION
catalyst concentration until the limit of 28 % Figure 5 shows the variation of specific fuel
(weight). Any increase in the concentration consumption with engine speed. When diesel
produces a reduction in gas production. Dry cell oil enriched with hydroxy gas, there is
design can vary in shape or size depending on reduction in specific fuel consumption. The
the amount of the output gas needed from the reduction was due to uniform mixing of hydroxy
cell. The gas output was measured and a quantity gas with air as well as oxygen. Hydroxy gas
of 0.25 liter per minute for each liter of engine assisted diesel fuel during combustion process
size was used. As NaOH catalyst mass fraction and yields better combustion. HHO gains a high
increased, HHO productivity increased due to the flame speed, high diffusivity and wide
thermal conductivity increase of the electrolyte flammability.
as shown in Fig.3.
The addition of hydroxy gas would help the fuel

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to be burned faster and more complete
combustion. Improved mixing of hydroxy, air
and oxygen content of HHO has a positive
impact on specific fuel consumption.

The enhancement resulting from the heat energy


liberated from HHO burning resulted in higher
combustion efficiency. Decrease of specific fuel
consumption with HHO gas was about 15%
about diesel oil.

Fig.6 Thermal efficiency of diesel oil with HHO


gas

4.4 EXHAUST GAS TEMPERATURE


Fig. 7 shows the exhaust gas temperature for diesel
and HHO gas enrichment. There was better
combustion for addition of hydroxy gas in to the
engine. Because of high residence time
associated due to high auto ignition temperature
of hydroxy gas, more charge gets accumulated
inside the cylinder contributes to increase the
Fig.5 Effect of diesel oil with HHO gas on exhaust gas temperature. Decrease of exhaust gas
specific fuel consumptions. temperature with HHO gas was about 7% about
diesel oil.
4.3 THERMAL EFFICIENCY
Figure 6 shows the brake thermal efficiency
for diesel and with addition of hydroxy gas.
The thermal efficiency of diesel engine when
enriched with hydroxy gas is higher than diesel
due to increase in calorific value of overall
mixture in the combustion chamber. The high
value of thermal efficiency can be attributed to
better mixing of hydroxy gas with air which
results in better combustion.

The brake thermal efficiency at full load is


maximum at when enriched with hydroxy
Fig.7 Exhaust gas temperature of diesel oil with
gas .The thermal efficiency increased by average
HHO gas.
of 15% compared to baseline diesel.

The addition of HHO gas in diesel engine 4.5 CO EMISSION


improved the brake power of the engine due to The variation of carbon monoxide (CO) emission
the hydrogen present in HHO gas. Increase of with hydroxyl gas enrichment is shown in Fig. 8.
thermal efficiency with HHO gas was about 15% The average reduction of 13.5% is gained of CO
about diesel oil. emission.

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It is due to the absence of carbon in hydroxy gas.
HHO- diesel fuel burn more completely than pure
diesel operation. Utilization of HHO gas with
interior oxygen content enriches the engine
combustion process and decreases of CO
emission. The diatomic of bonds in HHO gas
atomic structure with high start response without
propagation delay of ignition owing to reaction
surface travel time ensures complete and
efficient fuel burning and results in the
reduction of emission percentages. HHO gained
a higher flame speed and high flammability,
addition of hydroxy would help fuel to be burned
faster and more complete. Lower CO emission in Fig.9 HC emissions of diesel oil with HHO gas.
diesel oil with HHO gas was due to the absence
of carbon in the hydrogen structure. Decrease of 4.7 NOX EMISSION
CO emission with HHO gas was about 18% about The variation of oxides of nitrogen for all fuels
diesel oil. with respect to the engine speed was shown in
Fig.10. The formation of oxides of nitrogen is
due to the peak combustion temperature, the
oxygen concentration in the combustion
chamber and the residence time of high
temperature gas in the cylinder. The
enrichment of hydroxy gas increased the
calorific value as compared to diesel, causes
temperature rise in the combustion chamber
hence causing increase in NOx emission. NOx
formation is related to oxygen concentration,
reaction temperature and residence time.
Increase of NOx emission with HHO gas was
Fig. 8 Effect of diesel oil with HHO gas on CO emission. about 8% about diesel oil.

4.6 HC EMISSION
The unburned hydrocarbons (HC) emitted with
emission gases due to the incomplete
combustion. Figure 9 shows HC is decreased
as the engine speed is increased. HC percentage
for engines blending HHO gas with air and fuel
mixture was lower than diesel oil. HC was
decreased due to the increase of the fuel
oxidation; as oxygen is already exist with
sensible percentage in HHO gas emission. As
the hydroxy carbonless, burning of hydroxyl
with diesel leads to lower hydrocarbon levels
and because of high cylinder temperature. Fig.10 Effect of diesel oil with HHO gas on NOx
The short quenching distance and wide emission.
flammability range of hydroxy leads to less HC
emission. Oxygen index of hydroxy yields 5. CONCLUSIONS
better combustion which diminishes HC Green transportation will play an important role
emission. The combined effect of hydrogen and in future such as: ground and air applications. A
oxygen in HHO gas helps in achieving dry HHO cell electrolyzer was designed and
complete combustion. Decrease of HC emission fabricated with NaOH-water solution for
with HHO gas was about 25% about diesel oil. production of HHO. Constant flow rate of 0.42
liter per minute of HHO gas through intake

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