Around 1950, Bulgarian electrical engineer Ilia Valkov escaped to Australia, albeit indirectly. A US major, Yull Brown, helped him. Out of gratitude (or perhaps other reasons), Ilia took his name and studied electrical engineering in Sydney. He discovered that when the hydrogen and oxygen gases produced during electrolysis are burned exclusively together, an exceptionally hot flame can be created, the temperature of which depends on the material it encounters. This can reach temperatures of around 6000°C, resulting in ionization, a so-called plasma. Without fuel, it is a so-called cold flame of approximately 100°C.
Independent of welding technology, developers in the USA continued to investigate the inhalation of both gases in the 1980s, and research teams, initially led by Japanese Professor Shigeo Ohta, among others, continued to research hydrogen inhalation, or rather the inhalation of hydrogen and oxygen, starting in the mid-2000s, and have documented this in over 1,000 studies with numerous scientists.
The term “Brown’s Gas” was adopted. Research on this topic continues. The team at BestElements Germany has been providing such inhalation devices with further developed models worldwide for several years, researching and documenting user experiences.