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I forgot to mention one important point. Consistency. With fuel vapor, fresh fuel vaporised better compared to older fuel. I use variable valve to inject fuel vapor into air intake. With fresh fuel, I need to allow tiny amount of air into fuel bubbler to get vaporize. After few minutes, I need to adjust again to allow even more air into fuel bubbler. This shows the energy content becomes lesser over the period.
While with water/methanol, so far I don't see much changes in the energy content over period of time. With water/methanol, I don't use variable valve to control the amount of vapor to enter air intake or intake manifold (vacuum). I didn't do extensive test with water/methanol mix but if someone has done this experiment may contribute your findings.
It makes sense why some people uses fuel drops or fuel injecting for fuel vapor technology. Everytime new fresh fuel enters into vaporiser canister so the consistency can be maintained.
Statistics: Posted by kumaran — Fri May 16, 2008 1:15 am
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Or tick some sort of flag in this stupid forum software to enable long-time members to be able to fix their stuffups.
You've probably figured out by now that i'm not a spammer.
Statistics: Posted by biggeorge — Thu May 15, 2008 4:54 am
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Let's say a hydrogen generator produces 10% better fuel economy. Now let's add a vaporizer to the mix for an additional 10%, now we're getting somewhere!
I'd like to learn where your at and maybe give input as to what I've been thinking as well.
Please look at this link, very simple stuff but some experimentation on a cold vaporization might apply to what your doing?
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I don't know what your goals are but mine are:
1. Find a cheaper fuel source to run a car on. In Australia, petrol costs $1.50 a litre which works out to be about us$5.50 a gallon.
2. If the alternate fuel source is a hydrocarbon, then next goal is to clean it up, hydrogen would be the ultimate.
3. Secure a patent so it can't be stolen, and then release it into the public domain so everybody can do it, and no big fat bastard can take it away or line his pockets with the profits from my ideas.
I've been doing some reading lately on distillation, such as ethanol production and so forth. It would not be silly if you were to build a mini still to crack the fuel into gases to run your car on. 1 litre of jet fuel contains a lot of BTUs of energy, if you can crack it down into hydrocarbon gases for a car engine you're halfway there.
The trick is to make it efficient to do so, as well as cost effective.
Now we have electrolysers that break the water atoms into hydrogen and oxygen, but we all know water doesn't readily "crack" into it's base atoms.
Maybe something like ethanol could be cracked in an electrolyser (rather than a still), to get it to release it's hydrogen. There are plenty of hydrocarbon liquids to chuck in an electrolyser for experimental purposes.
Just a passing thought, I have no idea whether it'll work, or if it's even nonsense or outright bloody dangerous. Could be worth trying though....
Statistics: Posted by biggeorge — Thu May 15, 2008 4:52 am
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