[reptile202]

To my understanding once hydrogen is heated up to an extreme temperature, it becomes plasma. So what would happen if hot plasma traveled through hydrogen stored inside of a fuel cell? Would it cause the cell to explode? Would the stored hydrogen become plasma and therefore pass through the cell, leaving it? If not, what would happen?

Thanks.

[Borek]

If there is enough plasma it will evaporate fuel cell together with the lab and researchers doing the experiment.

You question is poorly stated so I doubt it will get much better answers. Where does the plasma originate from? How much energy does it contain?

[reptile202]

Thanks for pointing out my misfortune.


Generally speaking, I'm asking what happens when plasma comes into contact with hydrogen? Let's say the plasma isn't powerful enough to destroy the fuel cell, yet it has enough of power to travel throughout the fuel cell.

Would it be possible for a form of hot plasma to enter the cell, enter the hydrogen and then exit the cell without an explosion or the hydrogen escaping? Basically, could certain events error to make this possible?

[Borek]

You are still very far from defining question clearly.

Hot plasma mixed with hydrogen will most likely turn hydrogen into plasma - but it depends on the plasma properties (how hot it is) and on the relative amounts of both. This is simple heat balance.

[Mitch]

As long as the fuel cell didn't have oxygen, there is no real reason for the cell to explode. But it depends on a lot of other factors.

[reptile202]

Hot plasma mixed with hydrogen will most likely turn hydrogen into plasma - but it depends on the plasma properties (how hot it is) and on the relative amounts of both. This is simple heat balance.

(Well, if it's hot enough to convert the hydrogen into plasma, wouldn't the hydrogen then leave the cell, since plasma has the capabilities to travel through solids, and the hydrogen is now plasma too?)



As long as the fuel cell didn't have oxygen, there is no real reason for the cell to explode. But it depends on a lot of other factors.

(But wouldn't the plasma entering the fuel alone cause oxygen to enter when the plasma enters or exits it?)