[Gasification] water gas and IC Engine exhaust gas temperatures

[William Carr]

On Nov 21, 2006, at 3:55 AM, Ken Boak wrote:

> This does not yet address the problem that vehicle exhaust is still
> approaching 80% nitrogen.
>
> I still think there might be value in the idea of  drawing air  
> through the
> reactor on the induction stroke, to put it more into the exothermic  
> state,
> and then blowing the exhaust gases through it returning it to the
> endothermic state.


Well, technically there are filters that you can use to separate out  
nitrogen, it's just that operating them requires power.


It makes me wonder, if there might be a method for separating  
nitrogen that would operate off waste heat.


William Carr