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Originally Posted by freebeard
Twelve years ago. At ?t=149 they compare plasma to fender benders on the freeway. Unhelpful, so I went looking and found this:
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Is the 'burn-in time' once, or at each startup? How much of the exhaust get recirculated? Where is fuel added? How are the four check valves modulaled?
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I believe the North-South burn in time is a one off thing to get the magnetic field established. Apparently...
There may be something to this? Maybe not.
A magnetic field will cause twist and agitation in the mix IF there are ions formed during the pyrolosis and steam reformation process...
NB that with oxygen in the mix the reaction is no so much pyrolysis as partial oxidation, which is an exothermic reaction akin to a very mild 'burn'.
Fuel:
Is in the bubbler.
Weather gas or diesel or old chip oil.
Then to complicate things the fuel is floating on top of water, or coca-cola or orange juice or whatever you feel like experimenting with.
(Carbo-hydrates are just 'the poor cousin' H wise, of Hydro-carbons... So should pyrolyse and steam reform ok too...)
NB the use of an air filter semi submerged in fuel and wicking, mentioned in one of my posts elsewhere, as an alternative to the bubbler.
As for EGR:
Some adopters do that diagram and some adopters draw fresh air into the bubbler and just exhaust the exhaust.
Some have valves to do a bit of both with adjustability.
Remember you're looking at a fixed rpm engine here which makes things much simpler, allowing a lot of tinkering and fiddling with the numerous valves to get the engine running sweetly.
All those valve and fuel water ratio variables do nothing for repeatability of the 'experiment' however and keeps the Geet in the Unicorn Corral.
Your interest in the plasma side of things further complicates matters.
What field? What Ions? Wheres the electro side of EM field? Charge separation?
With a genset or other constant speed engine it matters not. As long as, after much tinkering with valves, the engine runs, with good power per liter of fuel used.
With magnets of known strength polarity etc and a known PD between electrodes you can apply the right hand rule and the laws governing steam reformation and plasmas etc and come up with a repeatable experimental apparatus as MIT etc did.
With the Geet; not so much.
In many of these type of inventions a small amount of pyrolysed CH4 type gasses and any steam reformed H2 produced are used to provide enough high H, 'exotic fuel' to idle the engine.
Then that bit of gas is enough? to improve (faster burn) the std combustion process from a std fueling system, where the std fueling system still gives you the control you need to operate a vehicle.
(The liquid fuel also means more space for air (O2) in the cylinder which is why engines that run on liquid fuel tend to produce more power than gas powered engines)