Hypothetical Thermal Vaporization versus Mechanical Vaporization to effect higher Efficiency Automotive Gasoline Engines 03 31 2018
I won't tell you the chain of thoughts that led me to this following thought, "I wonder if some nut ever threaded a spark plug into his gas tank in an effort to heat up his gasoline pre combustion."
As it stands now your gasoline engine is a controlled explosion. In effect like a bomb. And today it is very computer controlled and censors monitor the variables of combustion.
Which gets me to the next couple of points.
1. Could it be done and would it make the gasoline engine more efficient? Could it be done meaning a secondary chamber between the cylinder and the gastank which heats the gasoline liquid in a very controlled and failsafe manner prior to being fed into the cylinders?
Okay so how do you reduce the risk of that engine and car going up like a claymore mine?
A. That chamber used to heat the gas would need to have no more gas than a cylinder in it and also be of the same material strength as a cylinder so that it could contain an explosion? Scratch that. That secondary chamber needs to be made more redundant and failsafe than that. It needs to be made so that if in heating the gas the gas ignites that chamber powers a control rod that would divert that energy into the crankshaft in some way? Get it? It has to be like a dead cylinder never expecting to ever be used. Just there in case the gas is heated to much?
Some other variables are. What range of heating would be required between liquid state of gasoline and vapor state?
Could an injector thereby work less like and injector and more like a control shutoff valve? I can hear an engineer bitching already. "Totally would have to redesign everything."
2. Would it be more efficient? I believe it would because the gas would be expanding on its own via thermal expansion versus mechanical. Thermal expansion meaning greater expansion.
Now lets get really scientific. Even more theoretical. Is there a way to heat gas to above its igniting point before control valve fed into the cylinder?
How much more efficient could something like this be? Has it ever been thought of before?
I will do a quick search with the term "Thermal expansion of gasoline injected into an engine." How about "Thermal vaporization based gasoline injection." Instead of a push into the cylinder of the fuel it is a gated barrier shutoff process?"
You would likely need at least three or more different valves because backflow could blow the whole thing up. One way pressure valves. (Like an anti-siphon valve?)
First search term didn't seem to yield much. The second one does. There are several patents on it and it has its own term. Vaporized Fuel Injection System (VFIS)
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-ab&ei=IyzAWrbiPIT2zgKeu6OADQ&q=Thermal+vaporization+based+gasoline+injection&oq=Thermal+vaporization+based+gasoline+injection&gs_l=psy-ab.3..33i160k1.160568.160568.0.161666.1.1.0.0.0.0.128.128.0j1.1.0....0...1.1.64.psy-ab..0.1.128....0.MrBzge8O0ZQ
https://www.scribd.com/document/80858238/Vaporized-Fuel-Injection-System
I am going to attempt to read that last link and see what they have discovered.
© 2018 Thomas Murphy
I won't tell you the chain of thoughts that led me to this following thought, "I wonder if some nut ever threaded a spark plug into his gas tank in an effort to heat up his gasoline pre combustion."
As it stands now your gasoline engine is a controlled explosion. In effect like a bomb. And today it is very computer controlled and censors monitor the variables of combustion.
Which gets me to the next couple of points.
1. Could it be done and would it make the gasoline engine more efficient? Could it be done meaning a secondary chamber between the cylinder and the gastank which heats the gasoline liquid in a very controlled and failsafe manner prior to being fed into the cylinders?
Okay so how do you reduce the risk of that engine and car going up like a claymore mine?
A. That chamber used to heat the gas would need to have no more gas than a cylinder in it and also be of the same material strength as a cylinder so that it could contain an explosion? Scratch that. That secondary chamber needs to be made more redundant and failsafe than that. It needs to be made so that if in heating the gas the gas ignites that chamber powers a control rod that would divert that energy into the crankshaft in some way? Get it? It has to be like a dead cylinder never expecting to ever be used. Just there in case the gas is heated to much?
Some other variables are. What range of heating would be required between liquid state of gasoline and vapor state?
Could an injector thereby work less like and injector and more like a control shutoff valve? I can hear an engineer bitching already. "Totally would have to redesign everything."
2. Would it be more efficient? I believe it would because the gas would be expanding on its own via thermal expansion versus mechanical. Thermal expansion meaning greater expansion.
Now lets get really scientific. Even more theoretical. Is there a way to heat gas to above its igniting point before control valve fed into the cylinder?
How much more efficient could something like this be? Has it ever been thought of before?
I will do a quick search with the term "Thermal expansion of gasoline injected into an engine." How about "Thermal vaporization based gasoline injection." Instead of a push into the cylinder of the fuel it is a gated barrier shutoff process?"
You would likely need at least three or more different valves because backflow could blow the whole thing up. One way pressure valves. (Like an anti-siphon valve?)
First search term didn't seem to yield much. The second one does. There are several patents on it and it has its own term. Vaporized Fuel Injection System (VFIS)
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-ab&ei=IyzAWrbiPIT2zgKeu6OADQ&q=Thermal+vaporization+based+gasoline+injection&oq=Thermal+vaporization+based+gasoline+injection&gs_l=psy-ab.3..33i160k1.160568.160568.0.161666.1.1.0.0.0.0.128.128.0j1.1.0....0...1.1.64.psy-ab..0.1.128....0.MrBzge8O0ZQ
https://www.scribd.com/document/80858238/Vaporized-Fuel-Injection-System
I am going to attempt to read that last link and see what they have discovered.
© 2018 Thomas Murphy
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