My company has several trucks with H2O injection. Let me ask our fuel economy manager for his take on it.
Luther On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 22:37:20 -0600, OK Don <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes - water that's in liquid form, whether fog or mist, or what ever > should give more cylinder pressure when heated by combustion (or even > compression). I don't think that just high humidity would improve > performance though - perhaps some imperial testing is in order? > > On Dec 17, 2007 9:29 AM, MG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Don, >> >> The water to steam conversion should hold in any case, and it should >> make a bit of difference though how much I don't know (my cars both >> diesel and gas seem to run a bit better with more power when it is >> foggy). The fog droplets are still water and when heated to above 100deg >> C will expand. Something like 10 times in volume I think. >> >> The steam that we see from a steam locomotive is that same high volume >> vapor recondensed to water droplets in the cooler, below 100Deg C, air >> after it has done the job in the cylinder. There were some steam >> locomotives that even collected and recondensed that used steam in the >> tender using big radiators. The water was then reused to produce steam >> again. The train didn't have to stop so often to get more water as only >> leakage had to be replaced. >> >> So as long as you can see it it can be heated and the expansion to a >> higher volume made use of. >> >> Probably more than anyone wanted to know about steam and water! >> >> Manfred > > -- Luther KB5QHU Alma, Ark '87 300SDL (272,xxx mi) head case '85 Ford F250 6.9 diesel (x58,xxx mi) '82 300CD (166 kmi) '82 300D (74 kmi) getting donor engine-sold '85 300D (280,176) parts car sans engine _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
