555

by Gary Stauffer
(Amity Missouri)

There was a company about 10 years ago in Canada that had a patent for hydrogen production. The company was called oxgen and I was on their mail list. They claimed to be able to produce two types of hydrogen one lower grade for heating and one higher grade for cars. The lower grade used coils submerged in water. Their patent was based upon a 13.5 volts @ 19 hertz square wave @ .5 amps. for the running of their demonstration engine.
Then a natural gas company in Canada purchased a large amount of stock in the company. For about a year I received news E-letters on the progress of the company then one day no more website, no more E-letters. I built a 555 timer circuit at 19 hertz DC square wave at 1.5 amps and current limited with a resistor. It did not seem to peter out like straight DC electrolysis does requiring more current for the same work. But I did not do any major large experiments or use multi plate electrodes.

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Jan 18, 2014
 Waste Water Treatment Converted into Hydrogen Gas
by: Jeff Sellers

Nice website: www.xogen.ca

Company name: Xogen Technologies Inc.
They are located here: 40 Centennial Rd. Orangeville, Ontario, L9W 3T4, Canada

Their main goal/mission that is accomplished with their patented electrochemical technology: "Our technology effectively reduces the levels of many hazardous contaminants found in wastewaters produced by a broad spectrum of industrial and commercial processes over a number of market verticals."

Thanks so much for sharing this with us here on my website: making-hydrogen.com. This is actually an ingenious and complicated process. Industries such as Pharmaceutical, Municipal (Cities), Industrial, Power Generation, Oil, Gas and Mining produce wastewater. Xogen is taking that resultant wastewater and treating it electrochemically with chemicals and electrolysis.

Xogen has patented technology to convert waste water into energy as you can see here in their "Xogen Electrochem Flow Diagram" pdf: http://xogen.ca/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Xogen-Flow-Diagram.pdf

In that diagram we can see waste water being fed into a pre treatment conditioner. From there, free radical reagents are introduced. From there the resulting mixture is fed into the "Xogen Electrochem Reactor" which is a fancy and probably patented name for electrolysis. Just like we see with a hydrogen electrolyzer, the applied current is with the Cathode and Anode which is simply Negative and Positive voltage applied from an external power source which is most likely from their local power company in Canada. Okay, that is basic electronics/electric I know but for those reading this may not know that I've explained.

Anyway, the resultant gases consisting of H2 (Hydrogen), O2 (Oxygen), CO2 (Carbon Dioxide), N2 (Nitrogen) are then available for energy generation or collection.

Lastly, Xogen's main goal is accomplished. After the treated wastewater leaves the electrolyzing process, it is then filtered through a final solid removal treatment.

They have several wastewater treatment projects in the works with the U.S. Army, Canadian Government Agency and large Canadian EPC, a Fortune 500 gold mining company, a major Canadian Environmental waste management company, a major Canadian packaging plant, and at one of Canada's main industrial wastewater treatment facility.

We can see a more in-depth explanation of their projects here: http://xogen.ca/a-view-of-xogens-future/

For a more in-depth definition of electrolysis visit Wikipedia here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrolysis

Thanks again for visiting and commenting on my website.

Best,

Jeff Sellers
Jan 18, 2014
 SPELLED IT WRONG
by: gsgkill

http://www.panacea-bocaf.org/xogen.htm

Here is the reference to what I wrote. They said the same thing only in more detail. My memory at 61 is lacking a little I guess.

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