Simplified Deuterium System Drawing/Schematic
Posted: Sat Jan 04, 2020 3:22 pm
Greetings all,
Unsurprisingly, the deuterium system can be the costliest - and most restrictive - component of a fusor for a high school or college student looking to make a garage fusor, coming in at around $500 for gas, regulators, and containers. Moreover, international builders are confronted by the seemingly insurmountable hurdle of getting pressurized deuterium through customs.
Likewise, if we want to open up the world of homemade fusion to the larger population, without breaking their banks, we must find a new, cheaper solution for generating deuterium gas in mass. We would especially like to help those with demo fusors who haven't been able to make the jump due to costs make that jump into fusion.
Fortunately, individuals on this forum such as Mark Rowley, Richard Hull, and Bob Reite have all spent a great deal of time engaging in the pursuit of a universal solution. Their work has given us new solutions to these old daemons, and with their advice we hope to get closer to this ultimate goal.
In the hope of providing the simplest solution - both cheap enough and available enough for everyone - I have created a Google Folder with detailed schematics of a full deuterium system. Excluding the low and medium flow valves, the cost of the system was a mere $36, $20 of which came from the heavy water.
The system makes use of a simple 100 mL syringe filled by deuterium from a standard 3V Horizon PEM cell, although any 3-5 V PEM cell should do just fine. While heavy water is loaded into the fuel cell via 10 mL syringe, you bu no means need to fill the syringe up to 10 mL; 1 mL of heavy water will produce 1.24 L of D2 gas at STP, so the ~$90 you would have had to spend on 20 L gas alone is replaced by a ~$20 bottle.
If you are interested in checking out the drawings, please check it out here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/ ... sp=sharing
Thank you and have a great day, I hope that this is one of the ways that I can give back to the forum!
Sincerely,
Joshua Guertler
Unsurprisingly, the deuterium system can be the costliest - and most restrictive - component of a fusor for a high school or college student looking to make a garage fusor, coming in at around $500 for gas, regulators, and containers. Moreover, international builders are confronted by the seemingly insurmountable hurdle of getting pressurized deuterium through customs.
Likewise, if we want to open up the world of homemade fusion to the larger population, without breaking their banks, we must find a new, cheaper solution for generating deuterium gas in mass. We would especially like to help those with demo fusors who haven't been able to make the jump due to costs make that jump into fusion.
Fortunately, individuals on this forum such as Mark Rowley, Richard Hull, and Bob Reite have all spent a great deal of time engaging in the pursuit of a universal solution. Their work has given us new solutions to these old daemons, and with their advice we hope to get closer to this ultimate goal.
In the hope of providing the simplest solution - both cheap enough and available enough for everyone - I have created a Google Folder with detailed schematics of a full deuterium system. Excluding the low and medium flow valves, the cost of the system was a mere $36, $20 of which came from the heavy water.
The system makes use of a simple 100 mL syringe filled by deuterium from a standard 3V Horizon PEM cell, although any 3-5 V PEM cell should do just fine. While heavy water is loaded into the fuel cell via 10 mL syringe, you bu no means need to fill the syringe up to 10 mL; 1 mL of heavy water will produce 1.24 L of D2 gas at STP, so the ~$90 you would have had to spend on 20 L gas alone is replaced by a ~$20 bottle.
If you are interested in checking out the drawings, please check it out here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/ ... sp=sharing
Thank you and have a great day, I hope that this is one of the ways that I can give back to the forum!
Sincerely,
Joshua Guertler