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US 2012/0067304 A1Published application
Economical hybrid fuel
OwnerRobert Jon Littmanninventor
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Abstract
One embodiment of an improved method for reducing engine system (10) fuel requirement comprised of recovering engine (12) waste energy (30) and of converting (60) engine waste energy (30) into usable energy (64)(66); and, a means of re-introducing usable energy into engine (12), whereby engine primary fuel requirement is reduced and air emissions diminished. Other embodiments are described and shown.
Claims20
A system for use in connection with an engine operating in an open-loop energy cycle, said system comprising:
- an engine, an waste energy conduit extending from said engine, a generator that receives energy from the from the waste energy conduit, an electrolysis unit that separates water into hydrogen and oxygen that is powered from the generator;
- wherein the oxygen generated by the electrolysis unit is provided to the engine for fuel combustion and wherein the hydrogen generated by the electrolysis unit is provided to the engine for combustion with the fuel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.