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Originally Posted by freebeard
Set aside the physics, I can't even interpret the drawing. Am I to presume the 12x1/2" rod is magnetized? The fuel comes in somewhere on the left? The cross-sectional areas of the reactor seem disproportionate. The outer left-to-right flow is slower than the constricted flow right-to-left?
Nah, I'm good.
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The rod is said to become ...weirdly magnetized after the initial North-South orientation/conditioning.
https://www.youtube.com/results?sear...rod+magnetised.
This is where the pseudo science elephant enters the room..??
Yes the rod will restrict flow, but NB that, that is the fuel, not the air intake, which is to the left, after the reactor.
It will speed up the flow velocity and turbulence and force the gasses closer to the hot tube surface.
Plus (if) any magnet acting on ions; swirl and turbulence.
The fuel is on the right in the bubbler. The engine is on the left.
The bubbler can contain:
Just fuel:
Will give you pyrolyzed, CH4 and the like, gaseous fuel.
Fuel floating on water:
Will give you the same pyrolysed, CH4 and the like, gaseous fuel and, if you're lucky, some steam reformed hydrogen. (and burnable CO)
Other crazy mixtures of fuels and oils and water based whatever, depending on how mad scientist you're feeling that day. 
Air is mixed in with that processed gaseous fuel via the valve on the left, after the reactor, before the intake.
Some people modify the drawing so you can draw fresh air into the bubbler, or exhaust, or any combination of the 2.
ie: You can choose between pure EGR into the bubbler and pure air into the bubbler and anywhere in-between.
(If there's air coming into the system before the reactor you will get partial oxidation rather than pyrolysis in the reactor)
As you can imagine there's a hell of a lot of fiddling with those valves!
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