IEC 12 |
| Randell L. Mills, Bala Dhandapani, Paresh Chandra Ray, Jiliang He, Xuemin Chen, Jayasree Sankar, William Good, Andreas Voigt, Mark Nansteel, and Robert Mayo. BlackLight Power, Inc, 493 Old Trenton Road, Cranbury, NJ 08512 |
| The possibility that a novel reaction of atomic hydrogen that uses certain catalysts such as He+, oxygen, and Group I atoms or ions may be a clean new energy source is supported by spectroscopic, chemical, and thermal data. For example, extreme ultraviolet spectroscopy was recorded on microwave discharges of helium with 2% hydrogen. Novel emission lines were observed with energies of q x 13.6 eV where q=1,2,3,4,6,7,8,9,11,12. These lines can be explained as fractional Rydberg states of atomic hydrogen formed by the reaction of atomic hydrogen with certain catalysts such as He+ which ionize at integer multiples of the potential energy of atomic hydrogen. Fractional-Rydberg-state molecular and molecular ion lines were also recorded, and a novel liquid-nitrogen-condensable molecular hydrogen gas was characterized. The average hydrogen atom temperature of the catalytic plasma was very high 180?210 eV versus » 3 eV for pure hydrogen. Novel processes and hydride products with significant commercial potential were characterized by NMR, ToF-SIMS, and XPS. In addition, stationary inverted Balmer and Lyman populations were formed by using oxygen in water-vapor plasmas and by using certain Group I catalysts in hydrogen plasmas. The power may be very high and in the form of light. At a microwave input power of 9 W x cm-3, a collisional radiative model applied to the inverted populations recorded on water vapor plasmas showed that the hydrogen excited state population distribution was consistent with an n=1 ® 5,6 pumping power of an unprecedented 200 W x cm-3. High power hydrogen gas lasers are anticipated at wavelengths, over a broad spectral range from far infrared to violet with unprecedented efficiencies. A further application is the direct generation of electrical power using photovoltaic conversion of the spontaneous or stimulated water vapor plasma emission. |
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Green Chemistry in the Design of Alternative Energy Strategies (sponsored by Green Chemistry & Engineering Subdivision)
8:30 AM-12:05 PM, Sunday, March 23, 2003 Convention Center -- Room 394, Oral
Division of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry |