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Originally Posted by MARTINSR
However, BECAUSE the car had a turbo on it, doesn't mean the turbo was responsible for the better mileage. It could have been many other factors that happen to have gone along with the turbo on this particular car.
Brian
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A turbo make an engine act like one with a larger displacement when under high load. It also can improve the eff of a diesel, or FE by allowing the use of a undersized engine.
But this has nothing to do with heat recovery, so lets get back to the topic.
Steam injection has been shown to improve FE for some people, so as a very minimal way to use some heat is a very small, crude, low pressure, boiler. It's debatable if this helps FE, but it's a way to use the heat for something. The steam could also be used to cook some spinach as you drive, at least it's getting used.
As far as redirecting the energy of the heat back to the drive train, or accessories; that will take a considerably more complicated system. And we have discussed many of the ways in which this could be done. If a boiler is to be used (and i think it's the best option) it is seeming to me that a condensing system will be necessary, as it would reduce the needed amount of boiler fluid (water, or other). It keeps seeming like a A/C system could be scraped for a large amount of the needed parts for this project.