The Next
Step
Revisiting the use of home heating fuel in a conventional
boiler previously, leads us to the conclusion that a more efficient extraction of energy could be through "burning"
the diesel in a genset. However, as a diesel internal combustion engine, it is as prone to particulate emissions and an
equal contributor to acid rain production as a boiler is, since it pollutes our atmosphere with the same combustion
products from burning fuel, although the boiler has substantially lower energy conversion efficiency.
Ways to extract more energy
1) Generate electricity with
the fuel combustion by "Burning" it in a diesel motor hooked up as an AC power plant. (A 100% increase in energy
efficiency)
2) Generate even more electricity
by improving the fuel efficiency of the motor. (25% + more torque)
3) Achieve a much more efficient
heat extraction. (95% + heat extraction)
4) Further utilizing all
applicable science to the utmost. During preliminary testing of the "Steam Assisted Internal Combustion Engine Adaptation",
it was discovered that the water 'disassociated' to its preliminary elements of hydrogen and oxygen. (Increasing the energy
released by 100%)
My
starting point for investigating this, is right where and when the explosion energy is released, in the combustion chamber
of the engine. When immediately after the ignition of the fuel/air charge, and during the resulting explosion, that all
of the heat is released. It is at this very time, while the fuels’ energy is in its’ transitory “release”
phase, before it has been absorbed bythe cooling system or exported down the exhaust to our atmosphere, that it is most effectively
influenced.
To cause an effect in parallel to the engines role of producing torque from the explosion of the fuel/air mixture
would require a separate, additional and subsequent explosion.
Although the detonation energy from the fuel has already dissipated, the heat energy from the combustion is available
and is further harnessed to cause another explosion on the piston. Accomplishing this by injecting a precisely metered
amount of water into the cylinder during the time the fuel charge is exploding and exerting its force. The
water in the cylinder now absorbs the heat energy and then explodes to steam immediately after the 'crank' of the motor
has driven to 90 degrees after 'top dead center'. This provides the subsequent “steam” explosion and is the the required "additional
explosion" that increases the torque energy result by 25% out of the same amount of fuel.
Remembering that the fuel usually produces only the first explosion and its’ work, this is 25% more work done
is free. (Applies to 2)
The exhaust is made up of the products of
the motor fuel combustion and saturated with the steam from the second explosion, so it still contains most of the
heat originally released.
Extracting the heat for home heating through a heat exchanger, results in condensing the water vapor out of the exhaust
which causes the (steam) water to absorb all of the same “Green House Gases” (GHGs’) that Acid Rain does
while falling through our earths’ atmosphere. In this case, though, the system will scrub the exhaust gases much
more effectively of its’ pollutants, since they are still in confinement and due to that are in
higher concentration. Cooling the exhaust to near room temperature while doing this will increase the heat extraction
efficiency to about 98%. (Applies to 3)
A discovered bonus
Because of the way, an internal
combustion engine burns fuel, it allows for a unique principle of science to be applied to it also.
Namely, the water molicule will dissasociate to it primary components under high temperature and high pressure.
Both conditions are present
in the motor cylinder, and when this happens with water in there too, disassociation occurs which causes abundant
oxygen to be available for the hydrocarbon explosion, causing the carbon combustion to become much more rapid
(instintaneous) and complete. This results in a further 100% increase in energy release and fuel efficiency. Refer to the
"Why water burns page on this web site for the chemistry. The following chart also graphicaly shows the results of direct water injection
(Applies to 4)