Effect Of Surface Roughness On Hydrogen Gas Production Rate In Alkaline Electrolyser

Ahmad Sabri, Zahari (2015) Effect Of Surface Roughness On Hydrogen Gas Production Rate In Alkaline Electrolyser. Project Report. UTeM, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

Hydrogen gas is commonly used to reduce the effect of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide .It is one of energy resource in vehicle combustion engine. Water electrolysis is the most common way to produce hydrogen gas. The review of surface roughness based on alkaline electrolysis may play important role in investigating the factor of hydrogen rate production. The possible method is by scratching the plate so that the surface area of the plate increases as well as the rate of electrolysis. The hydrogen emission reaction was studied to reveal and to compare the activities of the electrode plate based on percentage line scratching of surface roughness produce. the experiment show that plate with 50% area of scratching has the highest rate of reaction compare to the plate with 0% and 100% area of scratching. Furthermore, the rate of hydrogen production for plate with 50% area of scratching also gave the optimum value compare to the other two plate. Several factor need to be considered that affected the rate of reaction and rate of hydrogen production as the plate with 100% area of scratching was expected to has the highest rate of reaction and volume of gas production but the result from graph shown the vice versa. The temperature at the cable, size of the wire, the presence of contaminants with formation oil layer and leakage at the container play important role that affect the whole result of rate ampere, power produce and hydrogen production in experiment. So the several precaution needs to be considered to handle this all problem that so that it cannot occur again for repeating the same experiment in the future.

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