Anomalous heat effects induced by metal nano-composites and hydrogen gas

Collaborative research among Technova Inc., Nissan Motor Co. Ltd., Kobe Univ., Kyushu Univ., Nagoya Univ. and Tohoku Univ. was done from Oct. 2015 to Oct. 2017. For this collaborative work, a new accurate oil mass-flow calorimetry system was developed at Tohoku University to replicate anomalous heat generation experiments reported by Technova and the Kobe Univ. Group. In this paper, we present evidence of anomalous excess heat effects obtained from experiments at our laboratory at Tohoku University. Excess energy experiments were done using nano-sized metal composites with H₂ or D₂ gas. Anomalous excess heat generation were observed for all the samples at elevated temperature (150-350°C) except for the palladium nanoparticles embedded in mesoporous SiO₂ (PSn1). The amount of anomalous heat generation per hydrogen atom ranged from 15 eV/H or D to 2.1 keV/H or D, which is too much to be explained by any known chemical process. Coincident burst events of pressure and gas temperature were observed for all the experiments using the CuNi₇Zr_15-O_x with H₂ gas, which suggested sudden energy releases in the reaction chamber. These observations suggest large local energy bursts. Excess heat experiments using the same material at Kobe and Tohoku Universities showed similar experimental results. Qualitative reproducibility between the Kobe and Tohoku experiments was good.