Posted on 01/02/2009 11:37:56 AM PST by Red Badger
With the high cost of gasoline and diesel fuel impacting costs for automobiles, trucks, buses and the overall economy, a Temple University physics professor has developed a simple device which could dramatically improve fuel efficiency as much as 20 percent.
According to Rongjia Tao, Chair of Temple's Physics Department, the small device consists of an electrically charged tube that can be attached to the fuel line of a car's engine near the fuel injector. With the use of a power supply from the vehicle's battery, the device creates an electric field that thins fuel, or reduces its viscosity, so that smaller droplets are injected into the engine. That leads to more efficient and cleaner combustion than a standard fuel injector, he says.
Six months of road testing in a diesel-powered Mercedes-Benz automobile showed that the device increased highway fuel from 32 miles per gallon to 38 mpg, a 20 percent boost, and a 12-15 percent gain in city driving.
The results of the laboratory and road tests verifying that this simple device can boost gas mileage.
"We expect the device will have wide applications on all types of internal combustion engines, present ones and future ones," Tao wrote in the study published in Energy & Fuels.
Further improvements in the device could lead to even better mileage, he suggests, and cited engines powered by gasoline, biodiesel, and kerosene as having potential use of the device.
Temple has applied for a patent on this technology, which has been licensed to California-based Save The World Air, Inc., an environmentally conscientious enterprise focused on the design, development, and commercialization of revolutionary technologies targeted at reducing emissions from internal combustion engines.
(Excerpt) Read more at sciencedaily.com ...
I think it’s supposed to make smaller, and hence better more efficiently burning, droplets............
And klick the heels of your ruby slippers three times......
Isn’t that the same device they say turns hard water into soft water?
I just moved to a house where it’s downhill coming and going so I don’t even have to start the engine.
I dunno..............
The aggregation of the asphaltene (a.k.a. diesel sludge) which leads to the lowering of viscosity lasts for several hours, according to the abstract I linked above, which is plenty of time for the fuel to make it from this device attached to the common rail out to the injector.
Doesn’t 2 ounces or so of acetone per tank do the same?
Plus, it makes your injectors clean as a whistle!!
How is that possible?.............
I need to try that acetone............
I saw ads for something like that back in the 50s in my dads’s bathroom magazines (i.e. True, Argosy) and, as a result, view this gadget with more than a little suspicion.
Heating the fuel going into a mechanical diesel injection pump (like on older Mercedes Benz diesels) will reduce the viscosity of the fuel and very slightly reduce the power used by the injection pump (and therefore not available to the transmission to propel the vehicle). I'm not sure, but I think the laws of thermodynamics would prevent the power saved at the injection pump from exceeding the power consumed by the alternator to provide the electrical power to the heater/electromagnet.
This smells like BS.
I used to tell people that I had magnets on my fuel lines, the EN-Valve, a tornado, splitfire spark plugs, and a few other "fuel saving" devices. My fuel economy is so good, the car actually makes fuel as I drive it. I have to drain the tank periodically to prevent the fuel tank from overfilling.
OH, Ye of little faith!...............
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Why would they prototype and test this device on a diesel engine when gasoline engines makeup the largest share of the market?
The Do-It-Yourself-Kit comes with a re-usable tin foil hat.
Just what I always wanted. A device with high-amperage power from my car’s battery connected to the fuel system. What could possibly go wrong with that?
And I just put in extra leaf springs and jacked up the rear end of my car. That way, I'm always going downhill!
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