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Brown’s gas is mainly a mixture of Hydrogen and Oxygen in a Stoichiometric ratio of 2:1. It is generated by electrolysis of water, an economic, safe and efficient process. However, it also contains mono-atomic Hydrogen, and mono-atomic Oxygen. Hydrogen and Oxygen combine in a ratio of 2:1 to form water (water vapor). The resulting flame is extremely versatile and can be used in a variety of applications.

The Combustion: 2 H2 + O2 = 2 H2O results back to pure water without any pollution.

Why Brown’s Gas?

Brown's gas technology is available to meet present challenges and is laying the groundwork to face future challenges. Brown’s gas can be generated from pure water and can be used for waste water. Brown’s Gas is produced on demand and on site avoiding the need for transportation and storage of hydrogen which is dangerous and difficult. Current technology has made the process of production of Brown’s gas very efficient and economical. No need for high pressure tanks. With just 1cc of soft water, 1700 cc of gas can be generated.

What are some of the applications where Brown’s Gas can be used?

Some of the applications where Brown’s gas can be used are:

Cutting and Welding of Metals. For the welding industry, there are savings of 30% compared to traditional fuels like oxy-acetylene, Soldering and Brazing.
Preheating before further processing, High temperature burners, Heating and Curing, Hardening Materials and Quenching
Acrylic Polishing, Glass Processing, Manufacture of Jewelry Glazing and Kiln Operation
Coal to oil conversion, Mineral Separation
Furnaces,Boilers, Incineration of hazardous waste and All forms of waste treatment and incinerators
Underwater welding
Artistic work. Oxy-Acetylene flames impart a gray, muddy look to the material being worked. However, this effect does not occur when Brown’s gas is used.
IC processing
Heat treatment and finishing for metals, plastics, rubber
Commercial food processing, Cooking-Domestic and Commercial
Dental Mold Manufacturing
Marble surfacing
Automotive Repair
Aluminum Processing
Crematoriums

Any application requiring a flame will benefit by significantly reducing CO2 emissions while lowering operating costs

What are the properties of Brown’s Gas?

The flame generated by Brown’s gas is very versatile. It is capable of cutting, welding, melting and burning any material from steel to tungsten.
Brown’s gas flame has the ability to shift its temperature to the melting point of the material to which it is pointed at. The flame has certain special properties like thermonuclear reaction which makes it very useful.
The flame is cool to touch, but it burns a hole to the centre of a brick
Tungsten lights up almost immediately
Ambient temperature is 259 c only. However, the flame can reach temperatures from 800 deg C to 4000 deg C. It generates such a high heat that it can weld even steel and brick, whose melting points are 1500 and 4000 deg Centigrade Though the temperature is 259 C,
It is equivalent to laser in cutting steel, for example, it can cut through lead, ceramic, brick and Tungsten
It produces only water vapor on combustion and does not produce any toxic emissions.
The flame does not emit ultraviolet radiation
It is 30% faster
It is capable of replacing acetylene and propane in working metal.
Brown gas is very economical. It costs about 1\3 of oxy-acetylene gases of the same amount.
It results in complete combustion without any additional oxygen gas supply.

Brown’s gas can be used wherever flames and heat are required. In comparison, acetylene is an unstable and explosive gas.

How is Jalyantra different from other machines?

The Jalyantra has special system to control electrolysis process at the required rate.What it means is that the Jalyantra 200 has a constant capacity to produce 200 lts per hour of browns gas but it can also run at 40 – 180 lts per hour for lower needs and thus saving electricity. Which makes all the models versatile to cater different applications.

Can Brown’s gas be used in automobile engines?

When used to supplement petrol (gasoline) ,diesel or natural gas, it has the following characteristics:

Hydrogen burns powerfully and easily
Oxygen increases the octane value of the fuel
It cleans up carbon built up in the engine
It increases horsepower of the engine
It results in savings of 15% to 28% when used together with conventional fuels
Retrofitting existing vehicles is extremely simple
It reduces the consumption of gasoline by increasing fuel efficiency and reducing gas exhaust. Most of the conventional fuel usage is for transportation-70% of total. The US has 4% of the world’s population but uses a quarter of the world’s fuel.

What is the impact of Brown’s Gas on the Environment?

The only output of a Brown’s Gas flame is water vapor. Hence, it is completely non polluting. There is in indirect cost-that of generating the electricity to produce it. However, current technology has made this process very efficient. When it is used to supplement traditional fuels like gasoline (petrol) and diesel, there is 50%-80% reduction in pollution, since the fuels burn better in the engine and produce less emissions.

What is the History of Brown’s Gas?

1962 - William A. Rhodes (USA) is the first inventor known to patent an electrolyzer that produced the simple 'single-ducted' gas we now call Brown's Gas In the mid 1960's
1974 - Ten years after William Rhodes patents, Yull Brown (originally a Bulgarian Student named Ilya Velbov 1922-1998) from Australia filed a patent on his design of a Brown's Gas electrolyzer and spent the rest of his life trying to make Brown's Gas a commercial success. He (convinced others) to spent about 30 million dollars and nearly 30 years in this endeavor. Due to his lifelong effort, he is posthumously honored by continuing to call the gas Brown's Gas. Due to his efforts this variety of hydrogen gas is called Brown's Gas.

How is Brown’s Gas Produced?

Water (H2O) is a compound of Hydrogen and Oxygen in the ratio of 2:1, that is, 2 atoms of Hydrogen and one atom of Oxygen. Water can be split by electricity (electrolyzed) into its constituents.

Electrolysis: 2 H2O = 2 H2 + O2

There are two ways in which the electrolysis can be carried out:

The traditional method uses separate cathode and anode. In this method, oxygen and hydrogen are recovered separately from the cathode and anode, and are stored and used separately.
The other method is Common Ducted Electrolysis.Common Ducted Electrolysis is a method of electrolysis where the electrodes are not separated. The output is Brown’s gas.

Brown’s Gas production, due to the design of the electrolyzer, is increasingly efficient as compared to independently ducted electrolysis. A common ducted electrolyzer, utilizing series cell parallel plate design, establishes a superior level of surface area, and an inherent ability to optimize the voltage magnitude per cell. In combination with capacitive amperage limiting, also known as a clipping circuit, the amount of voltage and current, per cell,is completely customizable. The series cell parallel plate electrolyzer can specify the amount of energy consumed, and allows for overwhelmingly superior power management, thus leading to an increase in efficiency.