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Originally Posted by t vago
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That's because it's undefined. Water has a critical point of 373 C and 22064 kPa.
So how would you go about preventing ignition quenching?
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again, I don't care about one gram of exhaust gas.
so I went to a kpa to psi conversion thingy, and it says 22064 kpa is 3200 psi.
that seems like a lot to me.
It seems like if I could put a bit of water in, and limit the temperature to a MAXIMUM of 373, I would not have any Nox, and have some decent pressure to drive the piston down.
It also seems like if the max combustion temp was 373, I might lose less to the piston and cylinder walls (delta T and all that.)
Is it possible combustion temps rise above 373 C?
forgive my ignorance. I'm trying to understand it, and I'm probably a bit dense.