. . . when you can wake up and ogle pretty machines while sipping my coffee! Thanks pgfpro and iveyjh.
Good assessment report.
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Originally Posted by pgfpro
So IMHO I can see where HHO could possibly help with combustion efficiency? If you can increase flames speed you can increase engine efficiency. Whats even more cool is with an increase in flame speed you could increase the compression of the engine (North Star Cad engine).
Also if you increase flame speed it would help a ton with lean burn.
So I don't have any testing with HHO but I can see where it could help. Now the big $$$ question is how much HHO and would it be cost effective???
I don't have a clue?
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We should wait on the HHO as I am not sure how it would react in yours and iveyjh's build since you are both boosting. My experience with it is only in the unboosted balanced burn and lean burn regimes. In stoichiometric (balanced burn of lambda = 1) it caused detonation in an iron headed Dodge 5.9 l gas engine at a volume mix of 1:700 HHO/air. Again, I do not think it is all the hydrogen's doing. The oxygen produced during electrolysis often has O3 as a byproduct and the effect of that is much like you found in your N2O2 "experiment". I was in touch with an electrical engineering student in India who was doing graduate work on ozone production. He used a small Hoffman Apparatus (electrolyzer) to produce an oxygen stream to introduce into his ozone device. A test of the oxygen purity revealed that it already contained a small portion of O3. He further surmised the amount of ozone could be due to small amounts of impurities in his electrolyte. I am still unable to find the link to a paper by a government lab on ozone in combustion. The summary was that ozone in quantities as small as 40 parts per million could measurably accelerate the combustion rate of a hydrocarbon fuel. Again, that is parts per million.