Submarine oxygen generators ran at around 3000 psi. They kept things separate. O2 went to high pressure storage bank. H2 ejected overboard through an auxiliary sea water system, IIRC. A compact self contained package, roughly a cube 6 feet on a side. They had an A ganger in constant attendance. Ed Kelleher At 01:59 PM 10/31/2013, Henry Spencer wrote:
In real life, those are the hard parts. Given that you want high storage pressures to get sizable amounts of gas into small tanks, the temptation is to run the electrolysis cell at high pressure (since it's a lot cheaper to push water in against a high pressure than to compress gas), and that ups the ante on things like keeping the GOX and GH2 100% separate. (At 1atm, you can actually get away with generating and using mixed GOX/GH2; this is done in some little welding systems aimed at jewelers and such -- Google "Brown's gas" for details. At high pressure, that's suicidally dangerous.)