Fuel Treatment System and Method
AssigneeThrival Tech, LLC
InventorsGarrett Hill, Scott Lazar, Dustin Stonehouse
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Abstract
The inventive subject matter provides apparatus, systems and methods for treating a fuel prior to ignition in a combustion engine in order to improve efficiency. In one aspect of the invention a throttle valve system that entrains a flow of gas, which can include a fuel, into a structured flow pattern via the inclusion of topological on a surface of the valve body and/or the flow chamber. The topological features can be arranged in a pattern configured to produce movement and/or structured turbulence in a stream of gas that is introduced to the throttle valve. An excitation source that ionizes or cracks species in the gas stream can be optionally utilized.
Claims6
A throttle valve for an internal combustion engine comprising a combustion chamber that combusts a fuel to produce power, comprising:
- a flow chamber configured to direct a stream of mixture comprising gas and fuel to the combustion chamber of the internal combustion engine;
- and
- a valve body having a concavity that spans across a circumference of the valve body, the valve body disposed within the flow chamber and axially translatable with respect to the flow chamber for controlling a flow volume of the stream of mixture,
- wherein the valve body has a shape and a surface topology configured to entrain the stream of mixture, to produce an axially-symmetric coherent downstream flow pattern,
- wherein the surface topology comprises a pattern of features selected from the group consisting of bumps, dimples, cavities, ridges, grooves, and wedges,
- wherein the features are large enough to be identifiable to naked eyes.
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A method of preparing fuel for use in an internal combustion engine that combusts a fuel to produce power, comprising:
- entraining, by using a valve body having a concavity that spans across a circumference of the valve body, a stream of mixture comprising gas and fuel to produce an axially-symmetric coherent downstream flow pattern;
- and
- directing the stream of mixture into a combustion chamber of the engine.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.