BLP | Electrical Power from Water Vapor Fuel. Yull Brown - The Father of Brown Gas and the Hydrogen (HHO) Generator. Yull Brown History and Controversy. Yull Brown has been a controversial figure for years even after his death in 1998. Yull Brown was born in Bulgaria as Ilya Velbov. Brown made his mark in life after moving to Australia and taking on a job as a laboratory technician. Yull Brown developed a way to electrolyze water into HHO gas in an exact stoichiometric mix that allowed the substance to be used for welding. Ten years before Brown made his discoveries in Australia, William A. Rhodes, an American filed for international patents for a similar method of creating HHO gas (or oxyhydrogen or hydroxy as it is sometimes called) that would also be used in the welding industry.
But unlike Rhodes, Brown was a heavy promoter of what he called "Brown's Gas" and in honor of his work, many people still use this name today. Brown found that by electrolyzing water (H2O) into an exact mix of hydrogen and oxygen that HHO gas would be formed, which was highly flammable, but not combustible, when used properly. Oxyhydrogen. Oxyhydrogen is a mixture of hydrogen (H2) and oxygen (O2) gases. This gaseous mixture is used for torches to process refractory materials and was the first[1] gaseous mixture used for welding. Theoretically, a ratio of 2:1 hydrogen:oxygen is enough to achieve maximum efficiency; in practice a ratio 4:1 or 5:1 is needed to avoid an oxidizing flame.[2] This mixture may also be referred to as knallgas (German; "bang-gas"), although some authors define knallgas to be a generic term for the mixture of fuel with the precise amount of oxygen required for complete combustion, thus 2:1 oxyhydrogen would be called "hydrogen-knallgas".[3] Brown's gas[4] and HHO are fringe science terms for a 2:1 mixture of oxyhydrogen; its proponents claim that it has special properties.
Properties[edit] Oxyhydrogen will combust when brought to its autoignition temperature. Production[edit] electrolysis: 2 H2O → 2 H2 + O2 combustion: 2 H2 + O2 → 2 H2O Applications[edit] Lighting[edit] Oxyhydrogen blowpipe[edit]