NEW FUEL INJECTION SYSTEM
03.11.10
Transonic Combustion successfully tested a new fuel injection system that gets 64 miles per gallon of regular gas during highway driving in a car weighing similar to a Toyota Prius. For comparison, the Prius is currently the most fuel-efficient car at 48 mpg highway. In your face, hybridouche.
By heating and pressurizing gasoline before injecting it into the combustion chamber places it into a supercritical state that allows for very fast and clean combustion. This in turn decreases the amount of fuel needed to run the vehicle. The gasoline is also treated with a catalyst to further enhance combustion. [Physorg]
Unless that catalyst is something cheap that can be dumped right into the tank, that’s a problem. You can’t get “gasoline plus catalytic unicorn essence” at a regular pump. Not until I get my gas station and unicorn farm franchises up and running anyway. Dream the dream, people.
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Not only is the Prius the most fuel efficient, but it will keep running well beyond what you wanted.
If they can make the catalyst “My psychological hatred MMO lolkids”, we might be able to save the rec center.
Honestly, though, do they say what the catalyst is? Whatever it is, I am sure Lindsay Lohan has a patent on it.
Cocaine?
You do realize a catalyst is something that lowers the activation energy for the reaction but isn’t used up in the reaction? It helps make the reaction more efficient but sticks around afterwards to be used again. So it’s not completely crazy to think that the catalyst would be a one-time addition (probably during production)…
“Unless that catalyst is something cheap that can be dumped right into the tank, that’s a problem. You can’t get “gasoline plus catalytic unicorn essence” at a regular pump. ”
Ever notice that you don’t need to replace your catalytic converter on a regular basis?
Catalysts aren’t consumed in a reaction.
That catalyst is probably a solid like in your catalytic converter?
Okay, the catalyst doesn’t get used up. You still can’t get catalytic unicorn essence at a regular pump.
Yes, but if it’s in the fuel during combustion, it’s being vented into the air with the exhaust, not being recaptured and added back in to the fuel cycle. Even if it were, the recapture rate would be less than 100%, requiring occasional refills.
But can this cars be maintained or fixed by the owner? How much does that cost. Gonna keep my 1956 carbed v8
Just thinking, if the catalyst is dispersed in the gasoline, then when the gasoline burns, the catalyst will be taken away with the exhaust, thus needing replenishment. Fuel companies actually used to use a solid metal catalyst to improve the performance of their gasoline, lead; maybe this “new” catalyst is something similar?
Forget the catalyst, I want to know were the energy to heat and pressurise the fuel comes from and whether that is factored into the fuel consumption.
Damn shady environmentalists … don’t even get me started on the Prius *cough* Worse environmental impact than a Hummer.
My BS meter just got pegged. Lots of unanswered questions: how powerful is the engine? How aerodynamic was the car? Rolling resistance?
Normal gasoline engines already do a very good job of burning all the available fuel. There is not a lot of room for improvement.
acetone. pure grade. even in a standard fuel injected vehicle 2 oz. per 8 gallons will increase fuel milage. its old technology. same with fuel heaters, if you go back and look into some of the gas milege contests and such during the fuel crisis back in the day they would heat the fuel in an expansion chamber coiled with copper wire coming off the radiator.