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Originally Posted by P-hack
meh, very band-aidy. Reminds me of emissions era carbs, where the obvious answer is already available, plus a hydrogen gimmick.
Lots of talk about reducing costs and efficiency and complexity, not seeing it.
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Partial Oxidation (POx) reactors external to an engine are cumbersome and wasteful. They waste the heat and pressure the reactor produces during operation. This design uses the heat and pressure from the reaction cylinder to produce mechanical work. The output of the reaction cylinder will be limited by its cyclic nature, but it should easily meet and exceed the 4% by volume hydrogen gas needed to take advantage of classic research mechanisms.
The engine used in this test car is one that already had a turbocharger and an EGR system so the only real addition is the routing and retuning. I would expect it to be robust and comparable in cost to the originally configured engine.