Round-the-Clock Continuous Charging of the Fuel Cell of an Electric Vehicle for its Non-stop Movement
M. Shoikhedbrod, [This article belongs to International Journal of Environmental Chemistry(ijec)]
Keywords
Electric vehicle; Electrolysis hydrogen and oxygen bubbles; Water electrolysis; Hydrogen and oxygen generator; Electrolysis base; Membrane from a fire hose
Abstract
The development of a hydrogen and oxygen photoelectrolyzer-generator, powered by the light energy, of an electric vehicle’s interior lamp, which allows the fuel cell of an electric vehicle to be charged around the clock and continuously for its non-stop movement, is an important step in replacing conventional transport with an economical electric vehicle. The article presents a developed photoelectrolyzer-generator, powered by the light energy of an electric car interior lamp, producing pure hydrogen and oxygen, which charges the fuel cell of an electric car around the clock, leading it to non-stop operation. Horizontally located on the bottom of developed photoelectrolyzer-generator electrodes, separated from each other by a thin membrane, made from fire hose material, the gap between which is regulated by a special device in the developed photoelectrolyzer-generator, permit during the process of the electrolysis of ordinary water, continuously supplied to the photoelectrolyzergenerator, to produce pure gases of hydrogen and oxygen. Round-the-clock production of oxygen and hydrogen in the photoelectrolyzer-generator and therefore round-the-clock continuous charging of the fuel cell of an electric vehicle for its non-stop movement is ensured by using lamp as an electrical load for the photoelectrolyzer-generator, including an LED with a daylight charger, which allows, in an energy-saving way, during the operation of the photoelectrolyzer-generator, to alternately illuminate the photoelectrolyzer-generator with the electric vehicle interior lamp, and when the electric vehicle interior lamp is turned off, by an LED, powered by the battery charged during operation of the electric vehicle interior lamp.
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