Hydrogen Turbo Jet with video

[noobflyer92]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPfLQmsth-4
Anyone know anything about this? Looks an awful lot like a jet a-1 powered engine, only it supposedly runs off of hydrogen. I couldn't find a link to more info about it. Can anyone else?

[JetPlaneFlyer]

It would work just like a conventional turbine, just fuelled with hydrogen. It's the Hydrogen in any conventional fuel that causes combustion anyway combining with the oxygen from the air to produce water (H2O). Many industrial power turbines are fuelled by hydrocarbon gas (methane) which atomically is mainly hydrogen anyway.

The advantage of running on pure hydrogen is that there is no carbon in the fuel to produce Carbon Dioxide, so theoretically it's totally 'green'.. But it's not quite so simple because Hydrogen is produced from hydrocarbons in the first place and carbon dioxide is released in the hydrogen production process.

A Hydrogen fuelled engine is easy enough for a ground mounted test rig where you can have a big heavy pressure cylinder of hydrogen but not so easy for a airborne installation which would have to have the hydrogen stored cryogenically to keep it liquefied.

Steve

[noobflyer92]

ahhh i see. its incovenient to store hydrogen onboard.

[HELModels]

That looks like one of those DIY turbines from a truck turbo charger. The leafblower starter is typical starter for these.