When it comes to splitting water into oxygen and hydrogen, there really is such a person in reality, and that is Pang Qingnian, the chairman of Youth Automobile Co., Ltd. In May 2019, a piece of news in Nanyang Daily caused a sensation in the Chinese car industry. A car that can run with water suddenly became a topic of conversation among people after dinner. Of course, in the end, this vigorous technology show turned out to be a farce. Chairman Pang Qingnian has become a technology liar.
What is this young man’s idea? Why does it attract so many people’s attention?
Behind this, it is the "water hydrogen engine" technology of Young Car that is used. "A vehicle can run just by adding water" and "a tank of water can run 300-500 kilometers", these are amazing things to say. In fact, the core technology of Youngman's so-called water-hydrogen engine is a special conversion device. This car has a large water tank on the roof. The water is turned into hydrogen and oxygen through the special conversion device. After filtering This is then fed into a hydrogen fuel reactor to generate electrical energy that propels the car forward.
But as for what this special conversion device is and what its principle is, Pang Qingnian is just evasive. According to him, it is because a special catalyst is added, but as for this special catalyst Pang Qingnian didn't elaborate on what it was, and he didn't even apply for a patent for such a powerful technology. Although I don't know if he actually found a way to effectively split water, I am sure that he never studied high school chemistry.
It is said in high school chemistry that a catalyst is a substance that can change the rate of a chemical reaction. It itself cannot change the balance of a chemical reaction. In other words, if a reaction can proceed spontaneously, then adding a positive catalyst The function of catalytic converter is nothing more than to speed up the reaction rate. If a reaction cannot proceed spontaneously, then it will be useless no matter how much catalyst you add. And this is the problem. Water will not generate hydrogen and oxygen spontaneously, but hydrogen and oxygen can spontaneously form water.
If you want to decompose water into hydrogen and oxygen, you must add energy. For example, electrolysis of water uses electrical energy to promote the reaction, but the catalyst does not have this effect, no matter how powerful the catalyst is. method to change the direction of the reaction. Young Pang must not understand the working principle of catalysts, and he also doesn't understand the conservation of energy.
So, if you just find a catalyst, you still can't decompose water into oxygen and hydrogen. You also need to add energy, and this added energy is also huge. So if so much energy is lost to produce oxygen and hydrogen, is there any point in this process?