[Gasification] ETHANOL GASIFICATION FOR DIESEL ENGINES
Benjamin Domingo Bof
benjaminbof at yahoo.com.ar
Fri Mar 7 13:06:10 CST 2008
Greg & April; i wish to explain why your proposal is happy for me.
In 2005 we arrange one motor to use E 85 from gasoline motor.
We set an heater at carbureter base with water cooling system.
Also change nozzles and reduces venturi dimension.
Ethanol needs to mix with air an important amount of heat due it have very high vaporization coefficient.
34 percent of its energy is to distill.
Under carbureter base it have vaccum producing to cool air into inlet manifold
. This fact is worst to mix ethanol to air near dew point.
At low temperatures heat transmission is not good and liquid path is very short.
With your proposal is all favourable; high air temperature, long path to homogeneous charge obtained and efficient cooling allowing to increase fresh air amount into cylinders.
This week my friend Paulo Alcover bought one Deutz FL 913 diesel engine and we are thinking to set ethanol devices to boost it.
SAE have guidelines for improve this motor to reduce emissions.
This is the way.
Thank you very much again.
Regards, Ben
Greg and April <gregandapril at earthlink.net> escribió:
Why not use it to cool the air post turbo ( in conjunction with or instead
of an intercooler ), then it does double duty, both to cool the incoming air
and as a fuel?
Greg H.
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Subject: [Gasification] ETHANOL GASIFICATION FOR DIESEL ENGINES
DIESEL ENGINES Because of the fact that diesel engines do not use
conventional spark ignition systems, it's difficult for pure alcohol to
ignite within the combustion chamber. This, coupled with the fact that
diesel injector pumps won't tolerate water, could be a problem ...
especially if the alcohol used was not nearly pure.
Fortunately, there are several other ways to utilize homemade ethanol in a
diesel engine by introducing vaporized alcohol to the engine along with
diesel fuel. Probably the simplest way is to mount an automobile carburetor
right on the diesel's air intake manifold and supplement the diesel fuel
with alcohol metered through that piece of equipment. Of course - just as in
a conventional gasoline engine - as incoming air rushes down the air inlet
tube, it will pick up alcohol vapor metered through the carburetor ... which
should have a controllable throttle to match tractor load.
Another way to use ethanol in a diesel engine is to install fuel injectors
into the intake manifold to accomplish the same result. This system would
require a separate pump that would have to be timed in order to inject
alcohol at the proper moment.
A vaporizer - like those found on propane fuel systems - can also be used to
add alcohol to the diesel fuel system. This, again, provides the diesel
intake manifold with ethanol vapors that help combustion.
Since a diesel engine has closer tolerances and is more costly to repair
than a conventional gasoline engine, you should take extreme care when
altering and running diesel equipment on other than pure diesel fuel. If you
don't consider yourself competent to work on diesels, find someone who is
... since the diesel fuel injector pump must be adjusted to provide less
flow when alcohol fuel is used, plus the fact that a lean mixture
condition - and even increased horsepower outputs - can damage a diesel
engine in short order.
Turbocharged diesels can be equipped with what is known as an "aquahol"
injection system, to be marketed by the M & W Gear Company of Gibson City,
Illinois early in 1980. This setup injects a fine mist of alcohol and water
in a 50/50 ratio directly into the engine's air intake, which results in a
lowering of fuel consumption and a tolerable increase in horsepower.
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