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US 4,590,914 AGranted
Method for increasing fuel efficiency
AssigneeOptimizer, Limited
InventorsLeon Rosky, Gabriel T. Anslow, Daniel F. Spaniola, Marvin H. Weintraub
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Abstract
By contacting a combustible fluid fuels with a metallic medium, such as metallized pellets, the fuel efficiency of the fuel can be increased. The metallic medium is maintained at a temperature sufficiently low so as to not alter the fluid phase of the fuel, e.g. if liquid, it remains liquid. The metallic medium is, preferably, a noble metal, such as platinum.
Claims9
A device for increasing fuel efficiency of a liquid fuel comprising:
- a first hollow housing, the housing having an inlet port for the liquid fuel;
- a first metallic medium disposed in the housing and which contacts the liquid fuel permitting minute amounts of the medium to dissolve therein;
- a second hollow housing, having an outlet port for issuing liquid fuel therefrom;
- a second metallic medium disposed in the second housing and which contacts the liquid fuel permitting minute amounts of the medium to dissolve therein;
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- means for communicating between the first housing and second housing to permit the liquid fuel to flow from the first housing into the second housing, a source of heat for maintaining the temperature within the housings at a temperature ranging from about the ambient to about less than 100.degree. C., and wherein the fuel entering the device and exiting the device is in a liquid phase.
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