Can This Special Clay & Water Make Energy? 

This video is from Robert Murray-Smith in the UK.

In this short video, he mixes zeolite clay with water to create heat or energy. 

Now for full disclosure, this has to be done with zeolite clay prepared in a specific way. Pouring water onto regular zeolite clay won’t produce steam like that.

Zeolite particles may or may not generate heat on their own when mixed with water, but they can be utilized in certain systems to facilitate the generating of heat.

One such application is zeolite-based adsorption heat pumps.

You might be thinking, “Do you mean absorption? What is adsorption?”

Yes, it’s actually adsorption.

Instead of something being “absorbed” into another substance, it is when a substance sticks to another substance.

So imagine you have a shiny, smooth table, and you spill some water on it. When you quickly wipe the water with a towel, it comes off easily because the towel absorbs the water. Now, imagine that the table is made of a special material that likes to hold onto things.

When you spill the water on the table, instead of wiping it off, the water sticks to the table’s surface.

That sticking is called adsorption.

The table is like the adsorbent, and the water is like the adsorbate. The table’s surface has tiny spaces where the water molecules can hold on. It’s like the surface is covered in tiny hooks, and the water molecules get caught on those hooks.

So, adsorption is when some things stick to the surface of another material because that material has special spaces or hooks where the things can hold on.

It happens with different materials, like when certain gases stick to some rocks or when dirt sticks to a wet sponge.

It’s a way for things to attach to other things and stay there.

So those zeolite-based heat pumps use the adsorption and desorption properties of zeolites to transfer heat.

When water vapor is adsorbed by the zeolite particles, heat is released, and when the water vapor is subsequently desorbed, heat is absorbed from the surroundings.

This cycle allows the zeolite-based adsorption heat pump to provide heating or cooling effects.

In that instance, water vapor is used as the working fluid, and the zeolite particles act as the adsorbent material that facilitates the heat transfer process.

The high surface area and pores of zeolite particles enhance their adsorption capabilities, making them effective for heat exchange applications.

Also, different zeolite types may have varying degrees of effectiveness for heat transfer.

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