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Originally Posted by cRiPpLe_rOoStEr
Most of the info about it is in Portuguese, and still not so much on the internet. But I remember the "reactor" was reported missing in 2011 when the police depot where the Corcel and the Mercedes-Benz truck had been stored for a long time was finally reopened in order to clear it.
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Hmmm... that woke the 'conspiracy theorist' in me...
I had another look and found:
https://www.econology.info/Chambrin-...ection-engine/
It's a direct translation that makes little sense.
But
scientifically sound, mature, in use industrial processes happen at a
"...temperature range of 100–600 °C, the ratio of C2H5OH to H2O in the range of 1:3–1:6..."
https://link.springer.com/article/10...44-021-01945-6
That's 75% to 91% of your fuel is water...
Here one can
see the difference between a liquid fuel burning and the same fuel burning when heated to a gas:
https://youtu.be/FQ81XLRFuFw?t=884
My point being that even if there is little to no Steam Reformation happening in an onboard system;
you are still adding waste energy (value) to your fuel
and
Any un-reacted steam will do what steam does for economy, which is generally good things.
The challenge is getting enough air into the engine when the fuel, as a gas, takes up so much volume.
Some sort of direct gas into cylinder injection system will be required and I doubt current systems will work with, or can be modded to work with, a gas.