FABRICATION OF ALKALINE ELECTROLYZER AND PRODUCTION OF HYDROGEN
Sagar Niroula
sagar.niroula001@gmail.com
Abstract
Hydrogen gas can be used in numerous way like as an energy storage system or for manufacturing other useful chemicals like fertilizers. But hydrogen gas mostly exists in its compound state like water, methane etc. hence it needs to be separated to get pure hydrogen gas. Although there are numerous ways of producing hydrogen gas, in this mini project hydrogen is produced by the process of electrolysis as electrolysis is generally easy to perform at home and hydrogen can be produce from renewable source of energy (grid electricity). In this project two model of electrolyzer are build and tested. Model 1 electrolyzer didn’t perform well, model 2 electrolyzer was run for 1 hours, with 4 amperes of current passing through it. Theoretically it was calculated that 1.79 liters of hydrogen gas was generated on running electrolyzer for 1 hours. Experimentally it was observed that the volume of hydrogen generated was roughly 1.5 liters (half filled in 3 liters plastic bag). The concentration of electrolyte used in this process was 1 N NaOH solution.
Keyword: Hydrogen, Electrolyzer, Electrolyte