A Study on the Design and Fabrication of Dry Cell Electrolysis Setup for Hydrogen Generation

Abstract

Air pollution with exhaust emissions like CO, HC, NOx is still a serious problem. The government has passed an order to introduce electric vehicles by the year 2020 to all vehicle manufacturers to reduce pollution. Even by introducing the electric vehicle is not possible to eradicate all IC engines in our country. By using fossil fuels also not possible to reduce the emission from the IC engine. Alternative fuel is the only way to reduce emissions from the IC engine. The most suitable alternative fuels which replace the fossil fuel is the alcoholic fuels (ethanol, methanol, and butanol) and gaseous fuels (LPG, CNG, and H2), biodiesel is a long-term fuel, and also it is renewable and emitting less pollution than conventional fuels. By considering all the above statements, hydrogen can be generated by various methods like steam method, electrolytic method, biological process. From that, an electrolytic method is used in this project. The electrolytic method is the most convenient and cost-effective. In the electrolytic method, the dry cell electrolysis method is used. Catalyst is used to speed up the reaction process. Potassium Hydroxide (KOH) is used as a catalyst. The main problem of using hydrogen is storage. So, hydrogen can be generated in moving vehicles by electrolysis of distilled water.