05-24-2008, 07:31 AM
I have a call out to my friend with the fuel system. I hope to report his up to date experience soon.
As for how it works, I am not an expert but this is my understanding:
A container of water (about a quart maybe) is mounted under the hood. The container has electrodes powered by the cars battery and electrical system.
An electrolysis process causes the water (H2O) to separate the hydrogen on a small scale. A tube takes the hydrogen gas from the container and delivers it to the injection system.
An electronic device is added to the computer system of the car to reduce the gasoline delivery in proportion to the hydrogen delivery.
The hydrogen is burned concurrently in the cylinders with gasoline.
Various claims are made about this system. There is reason to be skeptical. There is also a history in automotive engineering of general improvements and advances coming from small scale private efforts rather than big industry or government.
Hopefully I can share a local report later today.
Later today......
I talked to our friend and he has a mixed review. He reports that his small pickup initially got about 5 mpg better milage (18 to 23) and the engine ran well and cool.
Then he says the system stopped functioning well. Lines were getting plugged and the electronics was not perfectly suited to his car.
A few weeks of trying to get this resolved took place with the requisite lack of communications and frustration but the folks providing the system did not quit on him and today showed up and installed new (and improved?) components which hold the promise of better performance. The glass water reservoir has been replaced with a stainless steel one. The hydrogen feed tube is a larger diameter. There are now monitor lights in the cab to show the system is working or is low on water.
So basically the experiment continues. He says he was not expecting to become an experiment but that it may all work out. We'll see.
More later
As for how it works, I am not an expert but this is my understanding:
A container of water (about a quart maybe) is mounted under the hood. The container has electrodes powered by the cars battery and electrical system.
An electrolysis process causes the water (H2O) to separate the hydrogen on a small scale. A tube takes the hydrogen gas from the container and delivers it to the injection system.
An electronic device is added to the computer system of the car to reduce the gasoline delivery in proportion to the hydrogen delivery.
The hydrogen is burned concurrently in the cylinders with gasoline.
Various claims are made about this system. There is reason to be skeptical. There is also a history in automotive engineering of general improvements and advances coming from small scale private efforts rather than big industry or government.
Hopefully I can share a local report later today.
Later today......
I talked to our friend and he has a mixed review. He reports that his small pickup initially got about 5 mpg better milage (18 to 23) and the engine ran well and cool.
Then he says the system stopped functioning well. Lines were getting plugged and the electronics was not perfectly suited to his car.
A few weeks of trying to get this resolved took place with the requisite lack of communications and frustration but the folks providing the system did not quit on him and today showed up and installed new (and improved?) components which hold the promise of better performance. The glass water reservoir has been replaced with a stainless steel one. The hydrogen feed tube is a larger diameter. There are now monitor lights in the cab to show the system is working or is low on water.
So basically the experiment continues. He says he was not expecting to become an experiment but that it may all work out. We'll see.
More later
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