Dear Rolf Just checking, is UVO, used vegetable oil?
I have a new TDI Jetta. Do you think it could handle it? There is more H in straight diesel than VO. Maybe the H is mre labile in VO. Puzzled... Tom Reed Dr Thomas B Reed President, The Biomass Energy Foundation www.Woodgas.com On Jun 29, 2011, at 5:31 PM, Rolf Uhle <[email protected]> wrote: > F.w.i.w, > our Opel Astra prechamber (idi) Diesel runs on at least 50 % UVO and it makes > a difference! > Even 10 % of it in normal diesel gives a notable higher torque and smoother > running.I attribute this to the hydrogen content of the vegoil which > preignites the slower long carbon diesel. > You have the same effect with those hydrolizers peopel sell as fuel savers > for > Otto and Diesel engines, I have been told. > > salut > QRolf > > > > > Am Mittwoch, 29. Juni 2011 21:23:54 schrieb GF: >> Regarding H2 as an accelarent. for the power stroke of an IC. >> I have read that some research regarding the detonation of fuel air >> mixtures, using the addition of metal catalyst's permanently attached to >> the piston or cylinder walls, This accomplished a high temperature >> reaction which provides "extra" hydrogen derived from steam. This being a >> development originating from research carried out on WW 2 fighter aircraft >> engines, to obtain a power boost during combat operations, including the >> injection of a water/methanol mix during the required "boost" period. It >> now seems that we are to have this mixture imposed by Government mandate >> without the "catalysts" to run our gasoline engines, Perhaps we should all >> use platinum tipped spark plugs to help with the reaction. All thanks to >> the corn lobby. >> >> GF >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Tom Miles <[email protected]> >> To: 'Discussion of biomass pyrolysis and gasification' >> <[email protected]> Cc: 'Sridhar Gururaja Rao' >> <[email protected]>; gasification <[email protected]> >> Sent: Wed, Jun 29, 2011 12:09 pm >> Subject: Re: [Gasification] Producer Gas Engine Paper >> >> >> >> Tom, Sridhar, >> >> Is part of the solution to make producer gas with more hydrogen in it? >> >> Tom >> >> >> From: [email protected] >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Thomas >> Reed Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2011 6:26 PM >> To: Discussion of biomass pyrolysis and gasification >> Cc: Sridhar Gururaja Rao; <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: [Gasification] Producer Gas Engine Paper >> >> >> >> Dear Eric and all >> >> >> >> You commented on the lack of knock in engines running on producer gas. >> >> >> >> The Octane of a fuel turns out to be 10x the compression ratio at which the >> engine will knock on a fuel in that engine. >> >> >> >> Typical gasoline engines today have a CR of 8.5 and won't knock on 85 >> octane gasoline, but will knock on 80 octane gasoline. >> >> >> >> Small planes typically demand high test gasoline 100 octane and have a CR >> of 10:1. >> >> >> >> It is important to use the highest CR that a fuel will support. Both power >> AND efficiency increase linearly with CR. I believe the octane of >> producer gas is over 150, and I have been urging all to raise the CR of >> engines running PG. >> >> >> >> My company, CPC, ran PG in an engine with CR 15 and got no knock and >> spectacular power and efficiency. >> >> >> >> It took five years to get them to do it. >> >> >> >> Tom Reed >> >> >> Dr Thomas B Reed >> >> President, The Biomass Energy Foundation >> >> www.Woodgas.com >> >> >> >> On Jun 28, 2011, at 2:11 PM, "Erin Rasmussen" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> Sridhar recently forwarded us information about his paper about Producer >> Gas Engines. It is an interesting paper, and we've posted a link to it >> from the gasification web site, but you can also get it directly from the >> publisher with this link. >> >> >> G. Sridhar and Ravindra Babu Yarasu (2010). Facts about Producer Gas Engine >> , Paths to Sustainable Energy, Jatin Nathwani and Artie Ng (Ed.), ISBN: >> 978-953-307-401-6, InTech, Available from: >> http://www.intechopen.com/articles/show/title/facts-about-producer-gas-eng >> ine >> >> >> To sum up, they connected an engine that has been designed to run on >> producer gas, to a downdraft gasifier, and recording and analyzing the >> results. There may be some surprises here, like the lack of knock at >> higher compression ratios, and the information gathering is both sound, >> and beautifully presented. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Erin Rasmussen >> TR Miles Techical Consultants Inc. >> and BioEnergy Discussion Lists >> [email protected] >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Gasification mailing list >> >> to Send a Message to the list, use the email address >> [email protected] >> >> to UNSUBSCRIBE or Change your List Settings use the web page >> http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/gasification_lists.bioener >> gylists.org >> >> for more Gasifiers, News and Information see our web site: >> http://gasifiers.bioenergylists.org/ >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> asification mailing list >> to Send a Message to the list, use the email address >> [email protected] >> to UNSUBSCRIBE or Change your List Settings use the web page >> ttp://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/gasification_lists.bioenerg >> ylists.org for more Gasifiers, News and Information see our web site: >> ttp://gasifiers.bioenergylists.org/ >> > > _______________________________________________ > Gasification mailing list > > to Send a Message to the list, use the email address > [email protected] > > to UNSUBSCRIBE or Change your List Settings use the web page > http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/gasification_lists.bioenergylists.org > > for more Gasifiers, News and Information see our web site: > http://gasifiers.bioenergylists.org/ _______________________________________________ Gasification mailing list to Send a Message to the list, use the email address [email protected] to UNSUBSCRIBE or Change your List Settings use the web page http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/gasification_lists.bioenergylists.org for more Gasifiers, News and Information see our web site: http://gasifiers.bioenergylists.org/
