Does using an inverter in series connection with a rectifier will be more efficient in water electrolysis ?

Question

by converting the ac current to dc by a rectifier and storing it to a high voltage battery and connecting it series in a controled inverter. I can control the dc voltage required for the water electrolysis to produce more hydrogen and oxygen. I'm thinking it to do a new experiment using this.

Answer 1

Sure - and why not throw in a gonkulator or two as well.

If you add more stuff, you can bypass the physics.

Answer 2

Wow, I read that three times and you make no sense at all!  I have a degree in electronics, and you are talking pure gibberish!

Answer 3

well, you rectifying the AC is a requirement for electrolysis, you won't need to invert the battery as all batteries are DC by nature.

Could you use the juice straight off the battery for electrolysis?

If your saying that you need to get a higher voltage then yes you will need to invert back to AC then run through a transformer then rectify to DC for the electroysis

Answer 4

We get most efficient use of electricity when the voltage supplied to the water is just a bit higher than the minimum required to pull hydrogen apart from oxygen. We do this by using a step down transformer to give us high amperage and low voltage.

The amount of hydrogen produced is tied very closely to the amperage through the water. Extra voltage makes the process no more efficient.

An inverter? If you are starting with DC voltage and want to cut its voltage, you could use an inverter-transformer-rectifier to get to the optimum voltage and amperage. But not when coming from AC. It would be just transformer (to low voltage, high amperage), and rectifier.

There will be no benefit in storing the power in a battery. That is one more transformation that will use up your current.

Because the voltage needed to split hydrogen from oxygen is pretty much invariant, you do not benefit by having a control mechanism.

In your initial experiment, however you will want a transformer with multiple taps so that you can choose the voltage that you experimentally determine gives you the most output amperage for the least input amperage. That ratio is what we call efficiency.

Answer 5

The latest trend in over-unity water dissociation is to apply some carefully-calculated waveform--either AC or fluctuating DC--to the electrodes.  Biblical references prove that this will vibrate the water molecule at its resonant frequency and cause it to break apart into its constituent parts without having to expend the energy normally required to break the O-H bond.  The purpose of his inverter here is to modulate his DC supply into such a waveform.  

This is why they like to show rf generators dissociating water. And an rf generator can also light up a fluorescent lamp, too, which adds to the entertainment value.  

To their great regret a Tesla coil won't work if you connect it to the electrodes in your dissociation cell: the electrical load de-tunes the thing and it stops oscillating.  

The entire exercise is of course entirely bogus, but pseudoscience seems to have its fashions and trends like every other human endeavor.  We haven't yet seen whirling magnets applied to water-fueled vehicles, but I suspect we will soon enough.