Aqua regia water positive?

I was asking if I understood correctly that oxygen would now come out of the bath, in addition to coming out of the electrolyzer, and so both need to be piped to the nitrogen monoxide mixer. Voiding it isn’t really good. Hrm…

Looking closely at the recipe, the 9750L of aqua regia contains 750L N, 3750L hydrogen, 2250L O, and 3000L Cl. The water accounts for 1500L O, and 3000L of hydrogen. The Nitrogen Monoxide accounts for 750L O and 750L N. The chloroplatanic acid accounts for 1125L H and 3375L Cl. So we appear to have deleted 375L of H and created an extra 375L of Cl.

The electrolyzer appears to ignore the extra Cl and return only 3000L of Cl in the form of HCL. 5125L H goes in but 6000L comes out, so this step is also creating hydrogen.

How did this get to be such a mess? It was balanced correctly before when the electrolyzer put out CL2 and some spare H2 instead of taking in water and putting out HCL wasn’t it? Maybe it just needs to go back to that.

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