Improvements and Optimisation of Water Electrolysis for Hydroxy Gas Production for Metal Cutting Applications

目前的金属切割技术主要使用氧气-乙炔火焰，这意味着对于澳大利亚大量偏远社区来说，氧气和乙炔瓶必须从大城市运来。这导致了大量的运输成本和相关的环境排放，并引起了重大的安全问题。利用电解水的羟基火焰可以缓解这些问题，并且通过利用可再生电力，本研究中开发的新技术将使成千上万的澳大利亚金属车间变得更加环保，更安全，更具成本效益，从而有助于澳大利亚环境可持续发展的发展。

The current technique for metal cutting mainly uses oxygen-acetylene flames, which means for the large number of Australian remote communities oxygen and acetylene bottles have to be transported from major cities. This incurs significant transport costs and associated environmental emissions and presents major safety concerns. Hydroxy flames using electrolysis of water can alleviate these problems and, by utilising renewable electricity, the new technology to be developed in this research will transform tens of thousands of Australian metal workshops to be more environmentally friendly, safer and more cost-effective, thus contributing to the development of an environmentally sustainable Australia.