Make your own alkaline water with hydrogen gas for drinking
Would you like to make and drink alkaline water at home? We'll show you the two basic options available to you in your private home.
Water is the basis of human life - after all, our body consists of around 75 percent of it. But not all water is the same: In addition to the various minerals dissolved in it, the pH value also influences the edibility and effect of water on the body. Water with a pH above 7 (alkaline) is commonly referred to as alkaline water.
How to make alkaline water yourself: electrolysis devices
The first way to produce alkaline water yourself is to purchase an electrolysis system specially developed for this purpose (also Water Ionizers called). Such devices are now available in extremely compact formats and at affordable prices. They are usually connected directly to the water pipe and deliver alkaline water practically “from the tap”.
Carry out electrolysis yourself using simple means
If you don't have one Water Ionizers If you want to purchase one, you also have the option of making a small amount of alkaline water yourself using a few utensils. For this you need:
- an airtight plastic container with a hole cut in the lid
- a bucket
- Stainless steel electrodes, two alligator clips plus cable
- a battery (12 or 24 volts).
Place the sealed can in the bucket and fill both containers with water. Place the anode loosely in the bucket and insert the cathode through the hole in the plastic container. Increasingly alkaline water forms in this during the electrolysis process. Finally, after switching off the power, take the can of ionized water out of the bucket.
Lecture by Karl Heinz Asenbaum, author and researcher
The current basic lecture with the latest research experiences by the author Karl Heinz Asenbaum
Video: Connection between H2, pH value and redox potential
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History and preparation Basic hydrogen water
Catalytic treatment of water was discovered around the same time in Japan and Russia over 60 years ago.
Since then, both the basic catolyte and the acidic anolyte have been used industrially and medically in hospitals for internal and external treatment.
The spread of household ionizers for the production of alkaline activated water (BAW) among the Japanese population began as early as 1996.
Currently, around 17 million Japanese people drink this unique, clean, antioxidant-rich water.
> …Continue reading in the article by Karl Heinz Asenbaum about the history of water ionizers…
> Studies prove the effectiveness of alkaline water
The Japanese Ministry of Health has even certified that alkaline active water is beneficial to health in general and can help regulate intestinal problems, hyperacidity, chronic diarrhea and poor digestion in particular.
In Japanese studies, alkaline activated water (BAW) was found to enhance the effects of antioxidants. For example, it was shown that the antioxidant capacity of vitamin C in alkaline activated water (BAW) was several times stronger than in tap water.
In several further studies, the damage to DNA caused by free radicals was demonstrated, as well as the subsequent protective antioxidant effect of alkaline activated water by neutralizing the free radicals.
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Installation water ionizer | Production of alkaline water
What is alkaline water and what benefits does it have?
The fact that you are interested in the question of how to make alkaline water suggests that you have heard the term “alkaline water” from someone.
This person may have told you that drinking alkaline water is healthy—and that you can do it yourself.
This page describes two ways of producing activated alkaline water, the so-called alkaline active water.
Unactivated alkaline water can be made very easily by stirring a pinch of baking soda or potash into the water or dissolving an Alka Seltzer tablet.
This can be a good thing if you have a “bad stomach” or temporary, non-chronic heartburn.
Activated alkaline water can also help in such cases. The key difference is that it is not created by adding a chemical base, but by removing acid from the water.
Lecture by Karl Heinz Asenbaum, author and researcher
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Acid mineral salts are removed from water using the electrolysis described here. It separates the alkaline and acidic water components and creates the alkaline drink.alkaline active water“. The fact that it is alkaline is not its only special property:
What is much more significant is that the electrical energy from electrolysis is largely converted into the chemical energy of hydrogen gas (see also: > What is hydrogen water?) was inserted. This gas is present in dissolved form in the alkaline activated water and is noticeable in an extraordinary electrical potential.
Such water is able to release the energy stored in the hydrogen gas in the form of electrons, which is discussed in today's science under the topic of “selective antioxidant”. This is a special ability that non-activated alkaline water without hydrogen does not have at all.
Our numerous FAQ articles Find out how you can best make alkaline activated water yourself.
Herrmann K.: Alkaline water, alkaline activated water, ionized water, electro-activated drinking water, electrolyte water, hydrogen-rich water... I'm starting to no longer know my way around. Which water do you recommend and which is which?
- Since the nature of electro-activated water was not understood until a few years ago, around 1931 different names have emerged for what is good to drink since it first appeared in 50. The inventor Alfons Natterer originally spoke of acidic, alkaline (basic) and neutral electrolyte water. Since then, electrolytic production has been crucial, as opposed to what I call chemical water ionizers. A complete overview of the individual terms and procedures can be found in the e-book DVD-ROM of this FAQ book at www.wasserfakten.com
- Since in Japan initially only the alkaline and acidic varieties were produced due to a different cell design, the term “alkaline ionized water” was developed for the drinkable alkaline part of the water. This is actually a dirty term because it says the same thing twice. The water becomes alkaline, i.e. basic, because some of the water molecules are broken down (“ionized”) into acidic and basic water ions, which are then separated so that basic water (by OH ions) on the one hand and acidic water on the one hand Water (from H+ ions) is created on the other side of the electrolytic cell separated by a membrane. The opposite term to alkaline activated water is acidic activated water (“acidic ionized water”). Here we often speak of oxide water.
- The term “ionized water”, which was later used by the doctor Dina Aschbach in a book, was also unfortunate because it only focuses on water ions. The electrical activity of the “active water” is not based directly on the basic or acidic character that arises from the water ions OH- and H+, but rather on the enrichment of dissolved oxygen in the acidic water and the enrichment of dissolved hydrogen in the basic water . These dissolved gases create exceptionally high (positive) redox potentials of up to 1200 mV (SHE) on the oxygen side and exceptionally low (negative) redox potentials of up to (-) 800 mV (SHE) on the hydrogen side. These are the values that can be measured with a SHE electrode (hydrogen electrode). Since in practice measurements are almost exclusively made with CSE electrodes (silver/silver chloride electrode), there are values of up to + 993 mV (CSE) on the oxygen side and (-593 mV) on the hydrogen side. These are the values at 25°C, where the difference between SHE measurement method and SHE measurement is + 207 mV. The following overview illustrates the connection at other temperatures. (Source: http://www.anwickele-geologie.geol.uni-erlangen.de/paramete.htm)
Alkaline active water
Shortened video for the book “Trink Dich alkalisch” by Karl Heinz Asenbaum, Dipl.Ing., which was first published in 2008. Dietmar Ferger and Dr. med. Walter Irlacher.
When water is electrolyzed in an electrolytic cell with a diaphragm membrane, the two water ions H+ and OH- are not only formed from water molecules. Oxygen and hydrogen are also released, the difference on both sides is explained by the fact that oxygen gas and hydrogen gas have different solvency in water.
Solubility of oxygen mg/l at 1 atmosphere pressure 101,325 Pa
15 degrees C 2,756
20 degrees C 2,501
25 degrees C 2,293
30 degrees C 2,122
35 degrees C 1,982
Solubility of hydrogen mg/l at 1 atmosphere pressure 101,325 Pa
15 degrees C 1,510
20 degrees C 1,455
25 degrees C 1,411
30 degrees C 1,377
35 degrees C 1,350
The following amounts of gas are released from 2 molecules of water H2O during electrolysis:
2H2O —> 2 H2 + O2
This means that twice as much hydrogen gas is produced as oxygen gas.
However, O2 can dissolve in water around 25 times better at 1,6 degrees C, for example. So what to do with the significant excess of H2?
Hofmann's water decomposition apparatus is one of the most popular school experiments among chemistry teachers and students. Thanks to the clever construction, the equation 2H2O —> 2 H2 + O2 can be clearly demonstrated. However, the chemistry teacher has to “trick” to show that the two gases are actually created in a ratio of 2:1. If the water is not yet saturated with the gases, a ratio of around 1: 2,5 (oxygen to hydrogen) initially arises due to the different solubility and dissolution speed.
At the end of the experiment we have pure oxygen and hydrogen for the popular oxyhydrogen effect, but also acidic water with saturated oxygen and basic water with saturated hydrogen, depending on the air pressure and temperature.
Why does the redox potential in basic, hydrogen-rich water drop to very high negative values?
The water molecule H2O now consists of two reaction partners, namely H2 and O. Oxygen (O) has a positive redox potential of +2 mV compared to H1230, so it is “greedy” for electrons. This voltage difference of 1230 mV is constant for all pH values and measuring methods, even if the values of the two reactants shift downwards as the pH value increases.
Alkaline activated water contains more hydrogen than oxygen. Therefore - to put it very simply - +1230 mV is missing: the redox potential must decrease.
In the drinking range of alkaline activated water, at pH 8,5 to 9,5, the standard potential of H2 has also fallen from 0 to approximately -450 to -550 mV. This results in low measured values of redox potentials. Since very large amounts of free OH ions are present due to the basic character, the following electron-releasing reaction can occur, for example:
2 H2 + 4 OH- ———> 4 H2O + 4 e-
This reaction produces water full of energy: alkaline activated water.
There are three basic parameters that determine the value of alkaline activated water:
- A maximum saturation with dissolved hydrogen
- A high excess of OH ions
- Removal of oxygen gas as completely as possible
These 3 parameters complement each other. Their simultaneous presence can only be achieved with an electrolytic water ionizer with diaphragm electrolysis. Neither through —> Chemical water ionizers Compliance with these parameters can still be achieved using electrolysis devices without a diaphragm, so-called hydrogen-rich water generators.
As far as I know, the first person to use the term “basic active water” in Germany was Dipl. Ing. Dietmar Ferger in his 2006 publication: “Basic activated water – how it works and what it can do.” This book is now in an expanded version Form available under the title “Fountain of Youth Water”. This better expresses the activity of the water, which is not just simple “alkaline water” with a high pH value. Dr. med. Walter Irlacher and I adopted this term in our “Service Manual for People,” which also first appeared in 2006. In 2008 we delved into the topic in the book “Drink yourself alkaline – The breviary for alkaline active water” written together with Ferger.
Until 2008, interest was dominated by an electrochemical measurement that alkaline activated water also has in addition to its increased pH value: the negative redox potential. Russian researcher Vitold Bakhir believed he had proven that it was abnormally low and could not be explained by the equations of classical redox chemistry. At the same time, the redox potential of the acidic activated water was “abnormally” high and also seemed unexplainable. These extraordinary redox potentials were believed to be the main cause of the effects of alkaline activated water (antioxidative) and acidic activated water (oxidative).
In 1997, Sanetaka Shirahata hypothesized that only atomic hydrogen could be the cause of the antioxidant effect of water. He was also able to detect such an effect in types of water that did not have an abnormally negative redox potential, but did contain atomic hydrogen. However, research by Shigeo Ohta and many other researchers worldwide since 2008 has shown that the molecular, i.e. gaseous, hydrogen in water, which causes the low redox potential, also produces such an antioxidant effect. Since then, research into hydrogen-rich water has been one of the most promising new areas of medicine.
Due to the new findings about the importance of H2 (hydrogen gas) in alkaline activated water, the question of storage and shelf life is also moving into a new focus. While in times of the redox discussion it was still believed that metal vessels should not be used for storage so that the electrons would not flow away, from today's perspective metal vessels, such as double-walled stainless steel bottles, are the first choice for storing alkaline activated water as efficiently as possible. Just like thick glass (especially blue glass), they prevent the hydrogen from escaping and thus the loss of the antioxidant effect. In contrast, the hydrogen moves through the plastic bottles that were previously used very quickly, so that the water relaxes more quickly and reduces its maximum benefit to the purely alkaline effect.
Excerpt from the book by Karl Heinz Asenbaum: “Electro-activated water – An invention with extraordinary potential. Water ionizers from A – Z”
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