System and method for using concentrated oxygen for gas intake into an internal combustion engine
AssigneeH2Diesel, Inc.
InventorsJohn S. Petterson, John L. Haller
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Abstract
Methods and systems for enhancing fuel combustion in an engine (which may be a standard gasoline engine, a diesel engine or a hydro-diesel engine) by using an oxygen concentrator to remove nitrogen from the air to produce a concentrated oxygen gas that is fed into a gas intake of the engine's combustion chamber. The concentrated oxygen gas and liquid fuel are combusted within the combustion chamber. In hydro-diesel embodiments, hydrogen gas is mixed into the liquid diesel fuel to form a homogeneous mixture of hydrogen gas and liquid diesel fuel entering the combustion chamber. Filler gases may also be added into the combustion chamber.
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A method of enhancing fuel combustion in an engine, comprising:
- (a) providing an engine having,
- (i) a combustion chamber,
- (ii) a gas intake into the combustion chamber,
- (iii) a fuel intake into the combustion chamber, and
- (iv) a gas exhaust out of the combustion chamber;
- (b) providing a hydro-diesel system including:
- (i) a diesel fuel source,
- (ii) a hydrogen gas source,
- (ii) an infuser configured to mix hydrogen gas received from the hydrogen gas source into diesel fuel received from the diesel fuel source into a homogeneous mixture of hydrogen gas and liquid diesel fuel;
- (c) providing an oxygen concentrator, wherein the oxygen concentrator receives air therein and removes nitrogen from the air to produce a concentrated oxygen gas;
- (d) supplying the concentrated oxygen gas through the gas intake into the combustion chamber;
- (e) supplying liquid fuel into the combustion chamber;
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- (f) combusting the concentrated oxygen gas and liquid fuel in the combustion chamber.
A system for enhancing fuel combustion in an engine, comprising:
- (a) an engine having,
- (i) a combustion chamber,
- (ii) a gas intake into the combustion chamber,
- (iii) a fuel intake into the combustion chamber, and
- (iv) a gas exhaust out of the combustion chamber;
- (b) a hydro-diesel system including:
- (i) a diesel fuel source,
- (ii) a hydrogen gas source,
- (ii) an infuser configured to mix hydrogen gas received from the hydrogen gas source into diesel fuel received from the diesel fuel source into a homogeneous mixture of hydrogen gas and liquid diesel fuel;
- (c) an oxygen concentrator, wherein the oxygen concentrator receives air therein and removes nitrogen from the air to produce a concentrated oxygen gas that is fed into the gas intake into the combustion chamber;
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- (d) a liquid fuel source, wherein the liquid fuel is fed into the combustion chamber.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.