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To: Red Badger

It doesn’t look to me like they’ve solved an important issue in natural gas-diesel engines. Surprisingly, it’s soot. Liquid fuel disperses quite evenly in a diesel combustion chamber. Gas doesn’t disperse evenly. This leaves pockets of gas rich zones which have insufficient oxygen, and create soot. You know, the black stuff you see coming from diesel trucks when they accelerate. It seems like some in the “Green” community don’t like this.


8 posted on 09/12/2013 8:52:05 AM PDT by norwaypinesavage (Galileo: In science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of one individual)
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To calculate the CO2 emission from a fuel the carbon content of the fuel must be multiplied with the ratio of molecular weight CO2 (44) to the molecular weight Carbon 12 -> 44 / 12 = 3.7

Carbon Dioxide emission can be calculated as

qCO2 = cf / hf CCO2/Cm (1)

where

qCO2 = specific CO2 emission (CO2/kWh)

cf = specific carbon content in the fuel (kgC/kgfuel)

hf = specific energy content (kWh/kgfuel)

Cm = specific mass Carbon (kg/mol Carbon)

CCO2 = specific mass Carbon Dioxide (kg/mol CO2)


11 posted on 09/12/2013 9:09:24 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( ==> sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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