CK COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING &TECHNOLOGY

Jayaram Nagar, Chellangkuppam Cuddalore-607003

ANNA UNIVERSITY EXAMINATION

DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
MINI PROJECT VIVA-VOCE

A DESIGN AND FABRIATION OF EXTRACTION OF HYDROGEN FROM

WATER BY USING ELECTROLYSIS WITH CONTINUOUS FLOW
Team Members
Name Reg. No.
A.ABUBAKKER SIDDIQ 420719114002
K.V.ASHOKARVIND 420719114006
S.HARIHARAN 420719114016
N.HARIRAJAN 420719114018
Under the Guidance of
Dr.V.SURESH,ME.,Ph.D.,
( HOD/MECH )
ABSTRACT
Now a days the demand for fossil fuels in world as increases very much
higher and the layers of fossil fuels is almost deplited .So the need of the
alternates fuels with no pollution use for all aspects in need such as
transportation,industries,and electricity.Hydrogen is the best alternate
fuel to fullfill all this contrains.In this project and production hydrogen
via electrolysis of water with continuous flow without storing it testing
and analyse the production rate of hydrogen when using different
sources of water as electrolyte, and conclude that which sources is
suitable for higher production rate.
Keywords : hydrogen,electrolysis,electrolyte
AIM AND OBJECTIVE OF THE PROJECT
Our aim is to produce hydrogen gas in the purest form without release
of any greenhouse gases into the atmosphere , cost effective and
efficiently used in the commercial purpose to run the vehicle and the
another source of energy storage medium .
Our main objective is to extract hydrogen from water by mean of
electrolysis of water using DC current from renewable resources and
measure the hydrogen production rate by using different catalyst and
water from different conditions and increase the surface area of the
electrode to produce hydrogen gas
 INTRODUCTION
The use fossil fuels for like petrol, diesel ,LPG ,as very much and emits
large amount of co and Nox to the atmosphere during refining and
combustion so that alternates fuels like bio Diesel, bio gas, bio ethanol are
invented but they are not creates much impact on world due to this lower
calorific value and also produce Nox,co during combustion .To overcome
the pollution created during production and combustion hydrogen is correct
options to undertake analysis to use in vehicles. It has the more calorific
value the byproduct is only water during complete combustion the one of
the major disadvantages of hydrogen is it cannot be stored easily for long
time it has to be compressed in cryogenic form and stored in liquid state to
overcome this issue use hydogen must be used directly from electrolysis kit
with continuous flow in vehicles and eliminate storing of it.
LITERATURE REVIEW

S.NO Title Author Year Work done

1 Haiqing 20th feb  Spilliting water into hydrogen and oxygen by electrolysis
WATER SPLITTING BY Zhuo,Fang,Fa 2018
ELECTROLYSIS AT HIGH n Qin .using waste intermitted waste and solar energy
CURRENT DENSITY
UNDER 1.6 VOLTS
2 PATHWAY TO Shane Ardo,David 26th • Production of hydrogen using solar energy and some
ELECTROCHEMICAL Fernandez Rivas, June semiconductor convert direct chemical energy into
SOLAR HYDEOGEN Miguel A,Peter C K 2018 hydrogen production .
TECHNOLOGIES Vesberg

3 N –MODIFIED NIO Le Zhang,Peng Fei 18th • Boosting the sluggish kinetics of hydrogen evalution
SURFACE FOR SUPERIOR Liu,Yu Hang Li august reaction in alkaline environment. by using N-modified
ALKALINE HYDROGEN 2018 Nio plates as electrodes.
EVOLUTION
EXISTING SYSTEM
Steam reforming process:
Hydrogen is produced by reforming natural gas.In this
process natural gas reacts with steam at 1200k and 20-30 atm in
presence of nickel catalyst.The reaction result in the production of
hydrogen gas with traces of carbon monoxide.
CH4 + H2O → CO + 3H2
PROPOSED SYSTEM
ELECTROLYSIS PROCESS
It’s the process of spilliting
anion and cathode in the
components at anode and
cathode side by passing DC
current into it and use some
catalyst to improve rate of
process.No release any
volatile gases during
hydrogen production.
 METHODOLOGY:
Design of electrolysis unit

Fabrication of electrolysis kit

Testing of tap water as electrolyte to attain 1000ppm

Testing of waste water from textile industry as electrolyte to attain

1000ppm

Comparison of Experimental
MATERIAL REQUIRED:
List of materials:

1. steel plate(electrodes) 9.hydrogen sensor

2. pvc material(pvc pipe of 90mm dia) 10.Aurdino UNO board

3. Polymer sheet(separator) 11.AC to DC convertor

4. Acrylic board(130*130mm)

5. Tubes,nobes

6. Rubber gasket

7. Screw(8mm),M10 bolts

8. container
2D DIAGRAM OF ELECTROLYSIS KIT
 DESIGN OF ELECTROLYSIS KIT
• Distance between each electrodes - 50mm
• power supply - DC current 10volt with 3Amp
• Polymer membrane - to separate H2 and 02 gas

Polymer anode
membrane
cathode
Testing of tap water as electrolyte to attain 1000ppm

Tap water of 2liter capacity and 25gram of NaOH is added it is the electrolyte prepartion
.
S.NO Time taken in minutes Hydrogen percentage in
ppm

1 8 250

2 15 550

3 32 1015

Table 1:tap water H2 production

rate
Testing of waste water from textile industry as electrolyte
to attain 1000ppm
Water from textile industry of 2liter capacity is filled in electrolysis kit for h2
production.
S.NO TIME TAKEN IN MINUTES HYDROGEN PERCENTAGE
IN PPM

1 5 150

2 15 617

3 22 1020

Table 2 :textile industry waste water production rate

FABRICATION WORK
VIDEO DEMO
CONCLUSION
• This experiment shows that hydrogen production rate is higher when
using waste water from textile industry as electrolyte ,In future the
hydrogen production rate could be increased by decreases the
distance between the electrodes that decreases the voltage
resistance between electrodes and make it more compact .This kit will
be used in petrol or diesel vehicle to increase efficiency of vehicle
when using hydrogen gas along with petrol in combustion chamber.
COST ESTIMATION
S.NO MATERIALS COST
(RUPPEE)
1 Steel plate 800

2 Acrylic Board 550

3 PVC pipe 300

4 Hydrogen sensor 1600

5 Rod material 800

6 Nobes and tubes 400

7 Catalyst (NaOH) 180

8 Ac-Dc converter 300

9 Storage container 200

10 Frame 250

11 Polymer membrane 50

12 UNO board setup 1000

13 Manufacturing cost 2180

TOTAL 5660
Gantt Chart
S.NO TITLE OF WORK MARCH APRIL MAY JUNE

1 TITLE SELECTION

2 MATERIAL
SELECTION

3 FABRICATION
WORK
4 TESTING OF
PROJECT
5 REPORT
REFERENCES

1.WATER SPLITTING BY ELECTROLYSIS AT HIGH CURRENT DENSITY UNDER 1.6 VOLTS

Haiqing Zhuo,Fang,Fan Qin20th Feb. 2018

2.SPILLITING WATER INTO HYDROGEN AND OXYGEN BY ELETROLYSIS USING WASTE

INTERMITTENT HEAT, SOLAR ENERGIES.pathway to electrochemical solar hydrogen technologies
Shane Ardo,david Fernandez rivas, guel a,peter c k vesberg26thjune 2018production of hydrogen using
solar energy and some semiconductor convert direct chemical energy into hydrogen production .

3.MODIFIED NIO SURFACE FOR SUPERIOR ALKALINE HYDROGEN EVOLUTION le zhang,peng

fei liu,yu hang li18th august 2018 boosting the sluggish kinetics of hydrogen evalution reaction in
alkaline environment.by using n-modified nio plates as electrodes.
Thank you…