Potato Peel Oxygen Generator

[Lyrebird_Cycles]

I've decided to lodge only a preliminary patent application for the work to which the "other method" is related while I get some more testing done.

I won't be publicising anything related to it until I decide whether a full patent is worthwhile, likely just before the year's grace from the preliminary expires which will be June 2018.

Sorry for the tease.

 

[malt junkie]

LC I think the one thing brewing teaches is patience, I'll probably be enjoying the next RIS I brew in 2019, and I know it'll be worth the wait.

MJ

 

[Adr_0]

I've decided to lodge only a preliminary patent application for the work to which the "other method" is related while I get some more testing done.

I won't be publicising anything related to it until I decide whether a full patent is worthwhile, likely just before the year's grace from the preliminary expires which will be June 2018.

Sorry for the tease.

Not a worry at all - all the best with the testing and development!

Thanks very much for the detail on the method and the results - very interesting and it has certainly planted a seed in my mind.

 

[wynnum1]

The problem i see with hydrogen peroxide is obtaining the hydrogen peroxide and storage if you do not have a use for concentrated or access then its going to be expensive and possibly dangerous and if using diluted expensive , could sodium percarbonate be used to create the hydrogen peroxide solution for the potato peel.

 

[Lyrebird_Cycles]

Yes, but it will make judging the level more difficult as you'll have to know the exact peroxide level of your percarbonate: the commercially available stuff is generally about 30% peroxide I believe.

 

[dr K]

Manganese Dioxide (that black powdery stuff in old style batteries) as noted is an excellent catalyst for oxygen generation from H2O2.
Adding some Manganese Dioxide to a Sodium Percarbonate solution produces a pretty fast reaction!! You could do it in a pressure container, say a 9 litre cornie with convenient disconnects or even a PET bottle with one of those carbonation lids. Straight out to your oxygen stone....10g of Sodium Percarbonate will produce over a litre of oxygen.