Novel Cold Fusion Reactor With Deuterium Supply From Backside and Metal Surface Potential Control
Novel Cold Fusion Reactor With Deuterium Supply From Backside and Metal Surface Potential Control
ISSN No:-2456-2165
Abstract:- It is proposed that Cold fusion can occur in After Fleischmann and Stanley’s report, a substantial
metal by D+ hopping to T sites with D– on the metal number of follow-up research was conducted to reproduce the
surface. In this mechanism, D+ hopping is assisted by the reported FPE, however the reproducibility was low.
Coulomb attractive force between D+ and D–, suggesting
that control of the positive surface potential of the metal is 1.2 FPE Overview
important. D2 thus formed at surface T site is compressed Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons reported the
by T-site atoms due to the size difference between D2 and abnormal heat generation of D2O with Pd Rod under the
the original T-site volume. Compression of the D2 covalent electrolysis conditions reported in ref [1], which is now called
bonds creates a small D2 atom with Electron Deep Orbit “Fleischmann Pons Effect”, or “FPE”. Because the real Cold
(EDO) at a radius of a few femtometers, which is small fusion needs the positive metal surface potential however FPE
enough to completely shield the Coulomb repulsive force has the negative metal surface potential under the electrolysis
between d-d and thus leads to the fusion. Hydrogen with condition. Thus, FPE differs from the real Cold fusion for the
DEO is verified by the experimental data of “high opposite voltage polarity to real Cold fusion.
compressibility of hydrogen” and soft x-ray spectra which
roughly matched the theoretical value of EDO, and Because of small number of experiments on the real
500keV broad peak can be the evidence of EDO. Because Cold fusion, the understanding of FPE mechanism is
the current Cold fusion reactors are based on important.
Fleischmann and Pons Effect (FPE), they have serious
issues originating from voltage conditions of D absorption The experimental results on FPE replication are listed
under the electrolysis condition which has the negative below:
metal surface potential because the real Cold fusion needs (1) High D/Pd ratio is needed to generate the excess heat [1].
the positive metal surface potential. Thus, it is very (2) Replication experiment by Takahashi [2] shows that Pd
difficult to trigger fusion due to the voltage condition Rod with surface insulator [3], improves the excess heat
mismatch. Therefore, FPE needs a very high temperature generation by increasing the cell voltage.
by a strong local resistive heating of Pd Rod caused by the (3) Surface nano roughness improves the excess heat
insulating film growth on fragments of Pd surface during generation.
D charging. The inhomogeneous insulating film growth is (4) Nano-particle is used to improve the heat generation [4,5].
caused by very high electric field and by its variation (5) Excess Heat generation occurs on the surface rather than
caused by the Pt wire anode cage. Thus, I propose the bulk.
novel Cold fusion reactor based on the real Cold fusion (6) The measurement in [6] shows that T site on the surface of
mechanism, which fixes the most of the issues of reactors Pd nanoparticle has larger D occupancy than that in the
based on FPE. core region.
(7) The number of detected neutrons was nevertheless many
Keywords:- LENR, Cold Fusion, EDO, Electron Deep Orbit, orders of magnitude lower than what would be expected to
Coulomb Repulsive Force Shielding, Fleischmann and Pons explain the energy generation observed [7]. This is the
Effect, Biological Transmutation. main counterargument by skeptics of Cold fusion.
(8) The amount of 4He ash emission clearly correlates with
I. INTRODUCTION total heat generation [8],[9], thus, the energy of 4He is
transferred to the metal lattice and so the neutron and
1.1 Background gamma ray emission are not always necessary and not
In 1989, Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons were detected actually. This is the answer to the
catapulted into the limelight with their claim to have achieved counterargument of (7) and explained in 4.4.5.
fusion in a simple tabletop apparatus working at room
temperature [1]. Their report described an experiment
involving electrolysis using D2O in which the cathode fused
(melting point 1544 ºC) and partially vaporized, and the fume
cupboard housing the experimental cell was partially
destroyed.
All the similar confinement theories are based on the The idea for the mechanism of Cold fusion presented
experimental evidence that a very high D/Pd ratio is required here arose from the reviews on Cold fusion and FPE literature
for FPE. Therefore, it would be reasonable assuming that so mentioned in 1.1.2 and in 1.1.3, EDO theory for complete
close d-d distance is possibly caused by the internal force in Coulomb repulsive shielding, and research on metal hydrides,
metal, therefore there are similar theories explaining the ultra- which together allude to hydrogen behavior in metals being
dense D clusters are related to the confinement in dislocations, the key to the occurrence of Cold fusion. A surprising fact that
defect or in lattice space. However, the estimation of the almost all Cold fusion phenomenon has been observed in fcc
required force shows that according to the simple lattice (and hcp) transition-metal hydrides and deuterides is
confinement theory the d-d distance cannot be reduced to the mentioned in [13]. Because fcc and hcp have the closest
fusion distance by external force as explained by Yu Fukai packed structures shown in Fig. 2 and the FPE features (4) and
[12] as explained below. (6) in section 1.1.2 indicate that the Cold fusion could occur at
the surface T site occupied by D-.
To enable fusion, the distance between the nucleons
should be shorter than the fusion distance (0.1-1 pm), so the Because the D absorption and Cold fusion must proceed
Coulomb repulsive force at the fusion distance of 1.5 pm is under the different conditions, let’s start with the stage when
calculated to be 1x10–6 N. However, the elastic induced stress hydrogen storage is finished in Fig. 3(A).
in Pd is estimated to be at least two orders of magnitude
smaller than that based on the Pd elastic constant. For
example, as a typical internal stress in a metal is on the order
of 10 GPa, the pressure applied to hydrogen atom can be
estimated as 1 GPa = 109 N/m2 = 1E-9 N/nm2= 1E-11 N/Å2.
Therefore, the 1E-6 N force needed to cause fusion is by 2-4
orders larger than the possible internal force in the metal
estimated above.
2.4 Step (C) - (D): Creation of small D2 with EDO 3.2 Experimental evidence of a EDO of hydrogen
This transition to small D2 can be explained by the EDO
theory, see section 3.1. This electron orbit located at a few 3.2.1 High Compressibility of hydrogen negative ion
femtometer distance from d can shield the Coulomb repulsive experiment
force perfectly as demonstrated in Fig. 6.
I would like to propose a new experimental setup for soft Fig. 12 Schematics of proton shape with fine structure by
X-ray spectra evidencing the Cold fusion mechanism three quarks and Electron Deep Orbit deviation
(Fig.10(a)),
Figure 11 is the proton shape measurement results in ref
Because the Cold fusion is the surface reaction which [41] and this measurement suggested that there is a possibility
occurs at the surface T site, and a positive surface potential is of proton to have the fine structure by quarks, so it has the
needed, the detector location is important because and metal great impact on the deepest orbit energy as is shown in fig.12.
atoms existing around the D2 may shield the X-ray emission
from D2 as shown in Fig. 10(b), and cooling down the metal Because the soft x-ray spectrum study in 3.3.1, Fig.9
temperature is important to run the real cold fusion operated at shows that 500keV(transition to the deepest orbit) has the
lower temperature to avoid neutron and gamma ray emission. broader peak than other orbit, I think that the closest electron
deep orbit (r=a few fm) to the nucleus of d must have the very
3.5. Possibility to cause the broader soft-x ray profile by large variation of orbit due to the proton shape deviation from
the non-true sphere proton shape based on the proton true spheric shape probably caused by three quarks from true
shape measurement. sphere, and 500eV broad peak can be qualitatively explained
I would like to discuss here on the cause of this broad by larger variation of orbit and energy in the deepest orbit
peak at 500keV. caused by the fine structure by three quarks.
As is explained in Historical background of Neutron is Therefore, because peak energy matches with the
explained in 3.1.1, Rutherford suggested already in 1920 that theoretical value and the deepest orbit have the broader peak
electron and proton could be tightly bound. The assumption than others, these soft x-ray peak result proves existence of
that the small hydrogen is a neutron was finally rejected Electron Deep Orbit of nucleus.
because the wave function is infinite at r = 0. Since nobody
had observed it, the idea of the small hydrogen died. However, IV. MECHANISM OF FPE (COLD FUSION UNDER
r=0 issue was fixed by the practically modified coulomb ELECTROLYSIS CONDITIONS)
potential, and more importantly I show that the Cold Fusion is
real and is caused by EDO, based on the matching of soft-x- 4.1. Replication experiment
ray to the theoretical calculation and high compressibility of Replication experiments using a Pd sheet cathode
hydrogen. centered within a Pt-wired anode in a D2O/LiOD electrolyte
were conducted by Takahashi et al, [2]. An anomalous heat
More precisely I would like to discuss the cause of excess was first observed, and later it was replicated with a
broader peak at 500keV. much smaller excess heat level.
The authors noticed that the cell voltage in first Following the replication experiments by Takahashi and
experiment is anomalously high (~25 V in the beginning and the resistance change of Pd-D by Arai et al the sample with
up to ~30 V in the end) compared with those in 2nd better excess heat and higher cell voltage contains the
Experiment (~14 V in the beginning and very slowly increase insulating film at Pd rod under the electrolysis conditions.
up to 20 V after 3 months). This replication experiment Thus, I think that longer time of D charging causes the higher
showed that the first experiment had much smaller “effective” D concentration, and causes the higher resistance in Reg(a) in
surface area of Pd cathode than that in the second experiment. Fig.14. The insulating film grown under the high electric field
The surface analysis of Pd cathode in the first experiment cuts the current path and D diffusion into Pd Rod, therefore
showed the presence of Al-27 and Ca-40 deposits in amounts the D diffusion proceeds only in the region without the
comparable to that of Li-7. This film can be formed by a high insulating film (Reg(a)). Note that the inhomogeneity of
electric field strength of 106 V/cm assisted passive film growth electric field created by Pt wire anode causes the
[9]. It was proposed that the thin film grown on Pd surface inhomogeneous deposition of the insulating film on Pd Rod.
may play a role of a “current blocking layer” enhancing the So, the narrower current path and higher resistance of the
cathode over-potential (hence the cell voltage) and increase openings (Reg(a)) in the insulating film on Pd Rod can cause
the cell current resulting in the higher resistance on the current the higher cell voltage due to the constant current mode and
path of Pd. positive feedback of higher resistance and higher cell voltage
to keep the current constant. Hence, the resistance can be
4.2. Mechanism of FP effect rapidly so high that the local heat generation by higher
resistance in Reg(a) in Fig.14 triggers the Cold fusion, because
a very high local heat can cause the higher possibility of D+
hopping and can increase the possibility of fusion. Once the
fusion occurs locally, the metal temperature increases rapidly
and causes a higher fusion probability and the positive
feedback resulting in the fusion in all of region with the high
Pd-D on Pd Rod.
Due to the low efficiency of the original setting of D2O Fig. 17. Mechanism of 4He ejection from a surface T site
electrolysis reactor based on FPE, the most researchers are
using D2 gas to load hydrogen in metal, however D2 gas The very high D/PD ratio can produce the larger excess
method may be reconsidered because D2 gas has the lower heat because of the large total amount of D accumulated in Pd
specific heat so the heat transfer efficiency seems to be lower Rod. But note that 4He ash confined at surface T site can
than coolant of H2O. hinder the D absorption from the front surface, but in FPE D is
supplied to the surface T site from the bulk, and 4He ash is
Thus, in section 5, I propose the novel design of Cold ejected from there as shown in Fig.15.
fusion reactor based on the real Cold fusion mechanism.
However, the way of switching the D absorption and
4.3. FPE using RF input Cold fusion has the issue of the remaining 4He ash on the
surface T site due to the limited D supply from the backside,
Thus I think that D absorption and Cold fusion need to be
separated. For the RF input technique wastes the times while
D absorption step and the accumulation of 4He at surface T
sites hinder the D absorption.
5.1 A Cold fusion reactor with D supply from the backside Because 4He is confined in surface T site after d-d
fusion, the total number of unoccupied surface T sites is
decreasing with time. Thus, 4He in surface T site must be
ejected, while D absorption from the backside of the metal
plate leads to the 4He ash eject as shown in Fig.17, like in
FPE.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
Fig.22. Periodic table with the essential elements for plants
I would like to thank Vavra Jerry and Jean-Luc Paillet
and animals.
for useful discussions on EDO.