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Originally Posted by rmay635703
Pistons can be designed for monoxide fueling, anything acid resistant from stainless to ceramic coatings.
Natural gas is cost effective in other countries where conversion costs are hundreds not thousands of dollars.
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Cummins tried coating. It ate through and around the coatings. They tried steel but that wore the cylinder bores out something like twice as fast and the increased reciprocating mass reduced efficiency and caused problems balancing the engine power assembles on some engines.
The best way to burn relatively untreated or lightly treated bio gas is in a gas turbine since they are made with high alloy steels that are very corrosion resistant or boilers, it also helps that boilers and gas turbines burn the gas as soon as it enters the engine.
I work with bio gas and I know people who work at the Cummins R&D plant here in clovis so I have a real good idea what it does.
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