In reply to David Roberson's message of Tue, 13 Oct 2015 19:38:25 -0400: Hi, [snip] > >>Due to breakup of medium to large hydrocarbon >molecules in a gasoline engine, >the number of particles increases there too. >Also, formation of water molecules >results in a single O2 molecule becoming two >water molecules. > >Typical reaction:- > >2C8H18 (octane) + 25O2 => 16CO2 + >18H2O > >2 + 25 => 34< > > >Robin thanks for posting the reaction taking place in a typical gasoline >engine. I realized that a small increase to the total number of molecules >would occur, but if you consider that most of the gas molecules within the >system are nitrogen, then that increase is not overly significant.
Agreed. >I guesstimate the total increase is less than 10% when burning the fuel. With >the Papp process I am suspecting more like a 100 % change...is that too >optimistic? I suspect so. I doubt that all the atoms are going to be ionized at once, though some would lose more than one electron. > > > >>Stirling engines don't have an >exhaust either do they?< >That is a good point. In a normal ICE a large amount of heat escapes the >system along with the exhaust. The Papp device does not seem to suffer that >loss from what I understand. But, always keep in mind that the Papp engine >might not be real. F9! :-) ..so Feynman pulled the plug on a non-existent engine, that then can't possibly have exploded (because it didn't exist), and hence there was no ensuing court case? ;) Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html
