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Originally Posted by gto78
The Intercharger is one of those devices that supposedly captures the toxic fumes that are being sucked into the intake/coming out of the PCV valve.
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What's the PCV valve, and what's a CDR valve ?
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So of course they use tons of testimonials with ginourmous claims of mileage increases and emissions cut in half etc.
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If it sounds too good to be true, it all too often is
Let's see, a catalysed chemical reaction with hydrocarbons that isn't an oxidation (which would produce heat).
Could be a catalysed dehydrogenation - splitting off hydrogen - which then gets burned off in the ICE.
Lets see how this fits into what they claim on their website :
This reaction is endothermic (requires external heat input to keep going) - check !
It's a catalysed reaction - check ! - by metals (Platinum) -check ! - used in the petrochemical industry - check !
"Modifications to saturated (i.e. fully hydrogenated)
hydrocarbon molecules" ; well, that's basicly what dehydrogenation does - check !
Slight power increase from burning the hydrogen being split off - check !
You wouldn't find (as much of) the original hydrocarbons anymore, as they'd have been modified, then burned - check !
Catalytic Dehydrogenation - Encyclopedia of Chemical Processing
At least in theory, it could work.