Possible LENR observation reported in ACS journal

One of the references from the above paper is:

http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10450-012-9445-8

Abstract:

Abnormally high heats, exceeding 2000 kJ/mol (20 eV) per molecule of O2, are generated by interaction of the oxygen with the hydrogen absorbed on palladium, gold and nickel particles at 25 °C to 220 °C. The highest heats were observed when the metals were treated with micromole quantities of argon, prior to absorption of hydrogen, as well as its interactions with metal particles reaching nanometer size. In the latter case the heat evolutions due to the interactions with hydrogen were approaching 5000 kJ/mol. The interactions with oxygen in inert gas environments, such as that of argon, yielded higher heat evolutions than those given by pure O2 pulses injected into nitrogen carrier gas.

The results revealed an important role of argon in increasing the intensity of atomic hydrogen-oxygen reactions to a level several times higher than the heat of water formation from molecular hydrogen and oxygen.

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One of the references from the above paper is:

http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10450-012-9445-8

Abstract:

Abnormally high heats, exceeding 2000 kJ/mol (20 eV) per molecule of O2, are generated by interaction of the oxygen with the hydrogen absorbed on palladium, gold and nickel particles at 25 °C to 220 °C. The highest heats were observed when the metals were treated with micromole quantities of argon, prior to absorption of hydrogen, as well as its interactions with metal particles reaching nanometer size. In the latter case the heat evolutions due to the interactions with hydrogen were approaching 5000 kJ/mol. The interactions with oxygen in inert gas environments, such as that of argon, yielded higher heat evolutions than those given by pure O2 pulses injected into nitrogen carrier gas.

The results revealed an important role of argon in increasing the intensity of atomic hydrogen-oxygen reactions to a level several times higher than the heat of water formation from molecular hydrogen and oxygen.

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The mention of argon reminds me that the Lipinski UGC WIPO application also gets to favorable Ar in some of their later experiments. There are other key differences of course, Lipinski's is protons at modest energies (100 to 5000 eV) onto lithium targets that are sometimes solid, some liquid and I believe some as gas or plasma. There is so much there to digest... it is like reading the Odyssey. I suspect Lipinski is a lot more historical than those old epics though.

Warnings and advice on reading Lipinski UGC. I would not pay much attention to their novel Unified Gravity theory (at least not at this point), it may be interesting to some, but it is a distraction to low temperature fusioneers like us. Get the original pdf, don't try to read the Google OCR version. The Google scan is not handling what should be the very informative tables at all well, at least not the way it comes to me. The tables may be handled crazily because of the the double column v. single column switching that goes on in the WIPO document. The most reliable pdf, for me anyway, has been that from Unified Gravity Corp itself. Here is that link:

http://unifiedgravity.com/reso…014189799-PAMPH-330-2.pdf

Do not listen to anything anyone has said about this patent application, unless they have read and understood every page [of the technical stuff, the theory is not so important, I think] I see from some of the conversations on the Web, the "experts" are ridiculously off on the details of this work. Everyone seems to think they already know everything--- with the clue to us that they don't agree on anything. Take the time to read the middle section of pages describing in detail the acceleration voltages, the bias polarities and voltages, the nature of the alternating square wave modulation of the biases, the phase states of the lithium, the pressures, the proton currents (micro amps generally), the cautions and details with respect to measuring the alpha fluxes generated, the use of argon and so on. Look at how they measure alpha fluxes and their energies.

The way they calculate Q so as to be consistent with Herb's 1938 work, also excludes the energy used to maintain the vacuum as Herb did. They nicely replicated Herb's result. That showed almost infinitesimal Q values using highly accelerated (300 to 900 keV) protons to lithium. They then move on to various experiments showing modest over unity values and eventually reach the thousands. They give a nifty little calculation that the theoretical maximum for their main aneutronic reaction is something over a Q of 64,000. At an eventual 7,000 something, they appear to do fairly well. Lipinski the elder is a UCSD Ph.D physicist, son a computer whiz, other executive personnel are of amazing caliber / credentials. These are apparently not fools, at least they wisely sold cc:mail to Lotus in the late 90's for what must have been a nice sum. Their initial fusion experimental work was done at three successive US national accelerator labs. They have worked steadily to develop their own facility and seem to have that now near Silicon Valley. That became easier once they found that quite modest proton energies were the key to making their process work.

They go out of their way to claim that this is not LENR or CF. This must be part of their IP strategy. Anyone here would recognize that it is really indistinguishable from CF / LENR, at least in terms of the goals to which those aspire.

I just scanned the document, but it is clear to me that this peer reviewed report contributes to the high pile of documents showing that there is a phenomenon that should further be studied: LENR.
It is a pity that the authors did not take the opportunity to investigate the by-products of LENR like transmutations and the release of Helium. That would have made the document even more valuable.

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One of the references from the above paper is:

http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10450-012-9445-8

Abstract:

Abnormally high heats, exceeding 2000 kJ/mol (20 eV) per molecule of O2, are generated by interaction of the oxygen with the hydrogen absorbed on palladium, gold and nickel particles at 25 °C to 220 °C. The highest heats were observed when the metals were treated with micromole quantities of argon, prior to absorption of hydrogen, as well as its interactions with metal particles reaching nanometer size. In the latter case the heat evolutions due to the interactions with hydrogen were approaching 5000 kJ/mol. The interactions with oxygen in inert gas environments, such as that of argon, yielded higher heat evolutions than those given by pure O2 pulses injected into nitrogen carrier gas.

The results revealed an important role of argon in increasing the intensity of atomic hydrogen-oxygen reactions to a level several times higher than the heat of water formation from molecular hydrogen and oxygen.

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Can Argon be the catalyst in E-Cat as well ? And also the O2?

Another reference shows a patent (granted) which also mentions Argon as a catalyst. The patent is for an engine driven by LENR.
https://www.google.com/patents/EP2026357B1?cl=en

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Well, certainly with that perspective a re read of the abstract and key parts of the paper can be understood differently, but excess heat is indeed discussed in absolute terms (units of temperature vs amount of reactants without a time frame of reference or rate).

This is true, the paper does seem to report energy produced as Kj/mol H, however the spikes shown in the central graph in figure 3, are followed by subsequent dips - meaning the area under the line (total heat) is not increased?

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Upon further reading and tips from discussions on other websites it appears that this is more about an anomalous heating rate ("heat evolution") rather than actual anomalous heat "production".

Actually the author clearly says that the heat energy generated is more than the normal H2-O2 reaction. Its measured in energy per mole. I could not see any mentions of variation in rates of heating.

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My understanding is that they injected O2 in pulses until all the H2 recombined to H2O. With smaller 0.09 μmol O2 pulses they observed a higher (anomalous) energy per mol of O2 than with 0.45 μmol ones, up to more than twice the expected value.…

That is correct. On summing up over the pulses, the heat does not exceed the standard value for the water formation. It seems that the anomalously high heat evolution is being caused by only a small fraction of the total of hydrogen species that react with oxygen.

I would like to ask the following question to the authors: do you think that there is a connection between the heat anomalies that you found and the so called "epicatalysis" phenomenon described in the following papers (expecially the H2 dissociation experiment) ?

http://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/MAR14/Session/A2.11

http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10701-014-9781-5

And what about Casimir-Lamb shift hypothesis for Hydrogen atom ?

http://www.jovion.com/

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One question to Erwin Lalik, is there a planning to do this?

Quote from Gerard McEk: “I just scanned the document, but it is clear to me that this peer reviewed report contributes to the high pile of documents showing that there is a phenomenon that…

Thanks for your suggestion to detect He. We have not done this as yet. It seems relatively easy to connect a mass spectrometer (MS) to the microcalorimeter that we use in our lab, but then the MS results are not always reliable. First, it is difficult to tell D2 form He, both having the mass of 4, and so the "standard" MS results seem unlikely to provide a strong evidence of transmutation. At any rate, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and so a detection of He requires a very thorough study, possibly not limited to MS experiments. We are planning, however, experiments with using D2 instead of H2 for the recombination reaction.

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Quote from David Nygren: “One question to Erwin Lalik, is there a planning to do this?

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My friend Robert Godes had this to say after reviewing your document in an emai yesterday, thought this might be helpful. ". These speeds are notoriously running in fits and
starts. It could very well be LENR reactions taking place but under those
conditions they should use a high res amu 1 to 6 mass spec to look for helium
to see if there is LENR occurring. It would also be very interesting to run
highrise icp-ms on the catalytic beads before and after the apparent
observation of excess heat. If they find silicon after that is a good
indication of aluminum absorbing a neutron.

The explosion at Sri that killed a researcher was due to the temperamental
nature of these recombination beads. I also lost at least 12 rupture discs
before solving the problem of the temperamental nature of these beads."
Jim Rovnak

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On summing up over the pulses, the heat does not exceed the standard value for the water formation.

Thanks for clearing it. Does this mean that there is no LENR here ?