i was refering to a woodgas set up, where beleive it or not you can throw anything but rocks glass metal in and it will burn into syngas that fuels the engine, and all your left with is ash,
its large, and bulky. the reason (ill say it again) is because of larger engines, and because wood has relatively low energy content to gasoline, wayne said 16lbs wood= a gallon of gas or something close to that, so what my "idea" is use hydrocarbons that have lots of potential energy instead of something with less energy. this means i dont need 55gal drums, i just need something just large enough to heat waste oils or other flammables up to a temperature that the will "crack" or partially oxidize, or smoke. this is what will produce syngas,
so if i do it right, by the time these oils poured into my fuel tank, then sent to a carb, then heated, then atomized+mixed with hot air+steam, then heated further, then get into the cylinder, they will burn. and make the engine do what it is supposed to do run. without smoke
others have just poured it in the tank and ran plasma ignition like you saw in the videos, they get smoky exhaust, the oil wasnt hot enough or vaporized enough to burn cleanly, i dont want that, but if its minimal i might just deal with it. i will do anything i can to make it appear as if its normal exhaust with out using a catalytic converter.
others have heated the oils up with a heat exchanger and it didnt smoke marcello has run a generator with waste motor oil and small amount of gas when warm and he just runs his intake charge past the exhaust pipe! just getting it hot enough and no smoke! nothing else and he got a spark engine running on waste oils cleanly, and he shows diesel, veggie oil, wmo, atf it all works. now i want that for my truck and im building something similar.
so im going to heat them up, add steam for smooth combustion and making sure detonation doesnt occur, and start up and shut down on something that will easily start the engine. thats the plan. it might change if i have a lot of tailpipe smoke, i might add things to fix that. but my goal is to get an engine thats happy burning a WIDE VARIETY of liquids i pour in the tank. i believe with a gas engine i will have a greater variety than a diesel. IP's and injectors for diesels are expensive. a quadrajet is way cheaper. ive thought about this along time, and im so close to having it ready to test.
if you get oil hot enough, or gasoline, or ethanol, ANYTHING
you get smoke
that smoke will run your spark engine, and no smoke will exit the tailpipe.
same thing as woodgas, just different fuel, you get to pour what ever oil/hydrocarbon/alcohol into your fuel tank and run it if you build it right.
and quite often around the point it smokes, if oxygen is present it could ignite, marcello shows it didnt effect the engine, but i still want to use flame arrestors so when it happens in my carb spacer it will be stopped by a certain point, and wont reach the carb either.