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US 4,112,889 AGranted
Fuel system and vaporizer for internal combustion engines
AssigneeEnergy Research Corporation
InventorWebster B. Harpman
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AssigneeEnergy Research Corporation
InventorWebster B. Harpman
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A fuel system for an internal combustion engine of the piston type vaporizes a liquid fuel and water and mixes the resulting gaseous fuel and water vapor with air in a metering valve which communicates with the internal combustion engine. A device operating at a very high temperature, for example 1800.degree. F. is used in the vaporization of the fuel. The high temperature gaseous state of the fuel represents molecules of the greatest degree of separation from each other providing the greatest opportunity for contact of the reacting species in the gaseous condition as chemical reactions occur only between particles at the atomic or molecular level and it is necessary for the reacting species to be in actual contact at the time of reaction. The fuel system therefore enables complete combustion and the elimination of the atmospheric pollutants common in the operation of internal combustion engines.
An improved fuel system for an internal combustion engine having an inlet manifold;
The method of forming a gaseous fuel for an internal combustion engine comprising the steps of delivering liquid fuel onto a heated surface in a first chamber to form a hot gas, controlling the temperature and pressure of said hot gas in said first chamber independently of the operating temperatures of other regions of said internal combustion engine, permitting the hot gas to flow through a mechanical pressure regulator so as to reduce the pressure thereof, permitting the hot gas to flow through mechanical valves for regulating the volume thereof, delivering hot water vapor into said hot gas downstream of said pressure regulator, and delivering said hot gaseous fuel into the inlet manifold of said internal combustion engine.
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