Ultra-Efficient Gas Engine Passes Test Transonic Combustion, a startup based in Camarillo, CA, has developed a fuel-injection system it says can improve the efficiency of gasoline engines by more than 50 percent. A test vehicle equipped with the technology gets 64 miles per gallon in highway dCommentsview comments in forum You need to be a member of CKA and be logged into the site, to comment on news. |
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There is an hybrid car with a gas engine that is mostly an electric with a small gasoline engine that charges the battery. I can't think of the name of it, but that is nneat as well.
Should make for some fast sports cars, a lot more power out of a smaller package!
Oh yea, the fuel efficiency thing is good too...
And something in a 4x4 version with a box. Can't see getting an elk in the back of that thing.
Yeah, but you can still fit a nice beaver, fox or cougar in the front seat....
They are going to have to build much heavier (stronger) engine blocks to burn gas like diesel. No spark, just combustion due to the high temp of compression.
Should make for some fast sports cars, a lot more power out of a smaller package!
Oh yea, the fuel efficiency thing is good too...
Diesel requires stronger engine blocks because a diesel engine uses a much higher compression ratio to ignite the fuel. It sounds like this system doesn't need those higher compression ratios.
There is an hybrid car with a gas engine that is mostly an electric with a small gasoline engine that charges the battery. I can't think of the name of it, but that is nneat as well.
If all the gas engine does is charge the battery, why not just use a gas-electric, or better diesel electric system like our trains do? The carbon fuel engine creates the electricity that runs the electric motor(s). You could have the motors driving the wheels directly, wouldn't need a transmission, drive shafts etc.
They are going to have to build much heavier (stronger) engine blocks to burn gas like diesel. No spark, just combustion due to the high temp of compression.
Should make for some fast sports cars, a lot more power out of a smaller package!
Oh yea, the fuel efficiency thing is good too...
Diesel requires stronger engine blocks because a diesel engine uses a much higher compression ratio to ignite the fuel. It sounds like this system doesn't need those higher compression ratios.
Hmmm, you are literate. Your problem must be comprehension.
Hmmm, you are literate. Your problem must be comprehension.
Once the fuel is injected into the piston, the heat and pressure are enough to cause the fuel to combust without a spark ( to what happens in diesel engines),
Similar doesn't mean identical. I take from this article that the supercritical, heated, fuel ignites very easily, and so won't need super high compression. If you know better, let us know.
Company engineers have doubled the fuel efficiency numbers in dynamometer tests of gas engines fitted with the company’s prototype SC fuel-injection systems, Rocke said. A modified gasoline engine installed in a 3200-lb (1451-kg) test vehicle, for example, is getting 98 mpg (41.6 km/L) when running at a steady 50 mph (80 km/h) in the lab.
Do you think they modified the engine by giving it a diesel-like block? Wouldn't that just be a diesel engine modified to run on gasoline?
See, not only literate, but I have reasoning skills too.
Hmmm, you are literate. Your problem must be comprehension.
Once the fuel is injected into the piston, the heat and pressure are enough to cause the fuel to combust without a spark ( to what happens in diesel engines),
Similar doesn't mean identical. I take from this article that the supercritical, heated, fuel ignites very easily, and so won't need super high compression. If you know better, let us know.
Company engineers have doubled the fuel efficiency numbers in dynamometer tests of gas engines fitted with the company’s prototype SC fuel-injection systems, Rocke said. A modified gasoline engine installed in a 3200-lb (1451-kg) test vehicle, for example, is getting 98 mpg (41.6 km/L) when running at a steady 50 mph (80 km/h) in the lab.
Do you think they modified the engine by giving it a diesel-like block? Wouldn't that just be a diesel engine modified to run on gasoline?
See, not only literate, but I have reasoning skills too.
First of all wouldn’t this make the gas much more volatile?
Where is it treated, in the storage tanks at the gas station or in the vehicle?
What is the catalyst?