Engineering Research Methods Article 2022

Running head: ENGINEERING RESEARCH METHODS
Topic: An investigation of applying Seawater Powered Engine to start a Vehicle
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Abstract
It has been a long time since seawater has been utilised as a main topic of research for various
researchers and scientist about been utilised in manufactured automobiles as a fuel.
Therefore, the following research proposal is established to have a proper Idea developed
idea about researching about the above-mentioned topic in the most feasible manner
describing the methodology and the proper way of establishing a proper research about the
topic.

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Table of Contents
Part 1: Proposal..............................................................................................................3
Introduction................................................................................................................3
Background............................................................................................................3
Methodology..........................................................................................................4
Time-line................................................................................................................5
Analysis..................................................................................................................5
Conclusion..................................................................................................................5
References......................................................................................................................7

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Part 1: Proposal
Introduction
Water fuelled cars are being researched about over some period of time. The idea was
delivered from a hypothetical derivation that requires the driving of energy directly from
water. However, it is still under a lot of experimentations required to provide proper
justification and rationale behind the research procedures to find out if sea waters can also be
utilised to fuel cars (Rezaei et al. 2018). Therefore, the following proposal would also be
using the idea of establishing research based on cars running on sea water.
Background
Fuel cell in a car run by a salt water fuel is right now primary matter of interest among
the entire world. Many science magazines and news coverage articles and even website have
been found to be extremely interested in this recent technological idea. The devices that I've
been thought about is being researched about throughout the world and also considered as an
inclusion to pseudoscience. As the hypothetical Idea has already established that water is
actually oxidized hydrogen therefore, hydrogen can be considered as the main matter of
implementation behind the thinking of salt water fuelled cars. Hydrogen itself is high in
energy and is an extremely flammable substance. However, chemistry established the fact
that hydrogen only realises its true energy when water is formed. Water, on the other hand,
cannot burn. The process of electrolysis can help water be disintegrated into hydrogen and
oxygen but water molecule release needs much energy for hydrogen to oxidize and form
water. The operation of fuel is thought to be implementing the idea of salt water by
converting the fuel cell in a car into electrochemical cell which will help in converting the
energy from fuel into electrical energy. The idea has been derived from various researches
that fuel cell has the potential of operating continuously as a reactant and oxidant in a much-

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maintained flow (Solomon and Bakpo 2018). However, sea water also contains salt and
apparently it also has magnesium and their mixed into it which the scientist are trying to put
together to create electricity. This is the background idea for establishing the research is
about cars fuelled by saltwater and their utility.
The idea is to make the salt water dissolve a magnesium sheet present within the fuel
cell to produce hydrogen ions that would slowly migrate to the carbon cathode and therefore
create electrical current. The carbon surface would become blocked due to the migration of
hydrogen to the cathode and most probably would be polarized, exceptional to the case where
carbon would be porous (Larcher and Tarascon 2015). The air would diffuse down the carbon
and this would make oxygen to combine with hydrogen and form water so that the electrical
effect can continue to produce power to the engine. This basic idea is what the researchers are
being going on about for helping the automobile manufacturers to build salt water fuel cell
for cars and conserve energy and also contribute to the corporate social responsibility of
providing a clear environment.
It would not be much problematic for researching about the different ways by which
the utility of sea water can be established as an energy efficient fuel for any car and easily
starting it by the ways that researchers have established the chemical functioning of sea water
as a fuel (Yan 2018).
Methodology
The methodology that has been followed for this particular research purpose for
continuing with identification of issues to the problems and figuring out hidden information,
qualitative research methods are used. The qualitative data collection method are utilised for
this particular study so that there would be a provision of researching the works done by
different authors. This food formed the base of the entire study as collection of qualitative

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data through secondary sources by researching the works done by previous authors would
create a basis to the research as their findings would establish the idea of having this study
being conducted. This would help in finding out for the information from primary sources
using the qualitative data collection method by interviewing different people from the
automobile manufacturing research background and automobile manufacturing organisations.
The idea behind the development and how the perception of these people appearing for the
interview have an impact on the manufacturing of salt water fuel cell for cars for the
conservation of energy and how efficiently do they think that this advanced technology
would work.
Time-line
The timeline required to complete this entire research work on the investigation for
applying sea water powered engine for starting a particular vehicle would be completed
within a time span of 6 months including all the data collection methods and the research data
analysis identified collected through the primary and secondary research procedures.
Analysis
The analysis of the data would be done by collecting them from the primary and
secondary sources and utilising the content analysis technique so that the collected data from
primary and secondary sources can be done by inferences taken from valid and replicable
sources interpreting the textual information gathered. This should be helpful for the
systematic evaluation of the text and data collected through qualitative processes converting
into quantitative data.
Conclusion
Therefore, in conclusion it can be said that the above research proposal has been
developed to make sure that it is a research for investigating the utility of seawater for

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starting any vehicle is considered to be established in the most feasible and effective way
possible. This is done by collecting all the background study for the selected research topic
and presenting the same in the most analytical way possible. The above proposal states how
the data collection processes would be conducted depending upon the research methodology
and data collection procedure. It has been described the timeline required for presenting the
investigation and also establishing the effective way of the analysis process. Abiding all the
procedures as mentioned above, it would be easier and extremely helpful for any researchers
to continue with the research process as developed by the proposal presented in detail as
above.

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References
Larcher, D. and Tarascon, J.M., 2015. Towards greener and more sustainable batteries for
electrical energy storage. Nature chemistry, 7(1), p.19.
Rezaei, M., Mostafaeipour, A., Qolipour, M. and Arabnia, H.R., 2018. Hydrogen production
using wind energy from sea water: A case study on Southern and Northern coasts of
Iran. Energy & Environment, 29(3), pp.333-357.
Solomon, L. and Bakpo, M.T., 2018. Hydrogen and microbial fuel cells as alternate sources
of clean energy. Journal of American Science, 14(11), pp.20-27.
Yan, Y., 2018, April. (Energy Technology Division Research Award Address) Hydroxide
Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells for Affordable Zero-Emission Cars. In Meeting
Abstracts (No. 30, pp. 1747-1747). The Electrochemical Society.