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Originally Posted by teoman
Thank you for the detailed answer.
As far as I understand it is not really for the average joe. You would need a lean burn enabled car to begin with, and then have the ability to chane the advance parameter of it.
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I have always wanted to construct a hybrid gasoline/electric drive train where the engine is a slow turning, over sized, lean burning only design. Most of the motivation to putter along at low speeds and also to accelerate would be provided by an electric drive. The engine would be a narrow speed ranged engine tuned for maximum efficiency at your normal cruising speed with final drive ratios tuned so the engine operated between 1600-1800 rpm. Heat exchangers to warm the incoming air as well as metered EGR allow us to run sub-critically of detonation. A POx ( partial oxidation process ) chamber would feed the intake with CO and H2 to provide the high octane syn-fuel.
Hold it! You are saying that syn-gas already had hydrogen? Why do you need the HHO generator?
Good question.
Several years ago, a discussion on the Physics.org forums hooked me up with a graduate student in India who was interested in making an electrolysis unit to provide OXYGEN to his ozone generator. He had high hopes of producing an effective unit to deodorizer and disinfect. Interestingly, he found a measurable amount of ozone already in the oxygen stream coming from the electrolyzer. The amount increased to several hundred parts per million (ppm) if impure tap water was used in the electrolyte. SwRI ( Southwest Research Institute ) did a paper a while back where ozone concentrations as low as 40 ppm measurably accelerated combustion in a natural gas mixture. Several hundred ppm would be significant.
I feel the majority of the combustion effects of these so called HHO generators comes from the oxygen stream and the accidental inclusion of ozone. Not to discount what hydrogen can and does do in railroading the production of reactive species, but you might see greater benefits if we sought to maximize the production/addition of ozone.
But at this point, Life and the Wife limit my time to experiment on this topic. Maybe someone out there might be inspired to do so.