Thread: Cooled EGR
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Old 01-27-2011, 01:30 PM   #47 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by stovie View Post
i was thinking someone needs to see what happens when you put a jar of water inline of the egr supply line cause the water evaporates at 212 degrees and that should also act as a soot and particulate filter by putting the gritty stuff in the water and heating the water into evaporate so it's also like a water injection(by putting the jar of water right after the exhaust manifold it should almost eliminate the need to clean you egr valve and other parts!!!) also if you have to much gas bubbling through the water in the jar you could get to much water in the engine so get a tube thats the same diameter as the egr supply line and rap it in a spiral at the bottom of the jar and put like 1/8 inch holes every 1/2 inch around the spiral so that you will have the proper amount of eg through the jar without over bubbling and the smaller bubbles also allow more cleaning of the gases.
The problem with this approach is you would cool the water vapor in the exhaust gases below boiling point and condense it. This means you have to expend energy to over come the energy of enthalpy again to convert it back to steam during combustion.
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