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Originally Posted by aerohead
My SWAG is: perhaps only gaseous diffusion in a centrifuge, using the mass differential of the two gases, could separate them. Or cryogenics. One would 'liquify' before the other.
If you managed to get enriched oxygen into the engine, it might just immediately oxidize the first lubricant hydrocarbon it came into contact with.
BOOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Like oiling an oxygen regulator on an oxyacetylene welding unit.  |
I believe cryo processing is how the bottled oxycen one buys is made aerohead.
NOT practical or cheap.
But one may just be able to get the O2 percentage up a bit with properly arranged magnetic fields or a centrifuge of some sort, or a combination of the 2.
So something simple and light that increases the % of O2 inducted into an engine would be nice.