[Gasification] water injection of producer gas fired ic engines

[Ken Boak]

Jim and List

You wrote

relatedly, has anyone here yet to notice that all this fuel we are
burning to make process heat to run the gasification reaction is
largely the same thing happening next door in the ic motor?

Yes - I posted something to this list last week but I fear that it was
widely missed.

I have CO2 rich exhaust gases coming out of my diesel at 350 C.   By
increasing the load, the exhaust gas stream can be raised to 400 C or more.

This process heat could be put to some use surely,  and is every atom of
carbon not crying out for some hot CO2?.



On another front:  I tried the water vapour injection on my diesel this
morning. The spout of a boiling kettle was placed close to the air intake.

Ambient temperature was around 16.5C  62F.

I noted that the exhaust temperature rose by about 5 C when I tried this.
>From about 350C to 355C

This is the same response I get when the engine is put on a heavier load.
There was no appreciable change in the voltage output of the alternator, nor
the frequency, but I do have to wait for some better instrumentation.


Ken