Does an engine that works with regular gas, work with hydrogen gas too?

Question

I'm doing a project, and i was planning to use an internal combustion engine, and I was wondering if using hydrogen gas would still get the engine to run...I don't really know how engines work...

Answer 1

It would work but you would need a whole different fuel system. Where I work there are forklifts that use bottled gas as fuel. They have a different "carburetor" but the engine has no other modifications.

Answer 2

No it's a con. The whole premise of the hydrogen booster or HHO is that it allows for more complete burning of the fuel. Even if you took a mid 70’s car your hydrocarbons emissions were only (Federal 1975 emissions standard) 1.5 grams per mile. Even if we assume that 1.5 grams was all unburnt gasoline and if adding a hydrogen oxygen mix could burn it all and you broke even making the hydrogen oxygen mix (you don't) you wouldn’t save that much fuel. You would have to drive over 2,500 miles to make up one gallon of gas, and if you got 20 mpg before they hydrogen booster, you would only increase your to 20.16192 mpg not counting the fuel lost making the HHO (but that's another story). And those are 1970’s numbers; cars today are much more efficient at fuel management. The only way they make better mileage is to lean out the fuel air mix, but doing so will increase the temperature of the inside of the cylinder, this will result in burnt valves, pistons, and cylinder head damage. You won’t notice the damage right away it takes time so say in 5,000 miles or so you get the joy of rebuilding a motor, $2,000 to $5,000+ going without a car for a few weeks. In addition to the engine damage caused by lean burn and high combustion temperatures and an excess of oxygen (when you burn lean you burn all the fuel but you don’t use all the oxygen) cause the formation of nitrogen oxide. If you believe the web site you would have to increase the efficiency of your engine by 3 to 15% or more. That would also mean you'd get much more HP out of an engine. If this was even remotely true every hot rodder out there would put this device on their if I have a 400 HP engine that would mean I would have between a 412 and 460 HP engine and works out to $5 to $1 a HP and that’s very cheap. We don’t see them because they don’t work. Please save your money, it's been tested many, many times and it fails every time.

Answer 3

With a hell of alot of modification is the answer, hydrogen is volatile, the air/fuel ratio would be insanely high. Combustion would be thermally innefficient, produce very little power in a standard ICE. Damage to the engine block would be horrendous, it would corrode, leak and create a huge mess basically. If you thought it was simple to change fuels then think why we can't produce a hydrogen car for less than a $1m at the moment.

Answer 4

The engine technology is a very niche subject,
One experiment was carried out by the NASA on hydrogen based fuels.
the fuel tank was large,
being lighter than air, Hydrogen has the tendency to rise up.
No political connections involved.
he engine rose, to 11,347 feet,
and a Rose has a tendency to turn you romantic.
especially if it is red.
and if the engine technology is well read, the chance of the hydorgen having risen are reduced by 2/345 x 100.
If you also add Gin to water, It can be called Hydrogin.
This chemical formula is H to OGin.

Professor.
Hydroalix Ram Jet.

Answer 5

You would need to make some modifications - 1st hydrogen is a gas, so you would have to have your fuel stored in a pressure cylinder rather than a normal gas tank.

Some adjustments to the fuel/air mixture is needed and compression ratios to get good effciency.