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US 5,394,852 AGranted
Method and apparatus for improved combustion engine
OwnerRoy E. McAlisterinventor
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Abstract
A process for operating a combustion engine which comprises the steps of thermoelectrochemiclly regenerating waste heat rejected by the combustion engine by adding waste heat to an electrolysis cell, generating hydrogen by an amount of electricity that is reduced as a result of additions of waste heat and using the hydrogen as a stratified-charge combustant within each combustion chamber of the engine.
Claims7
An internal combustion engine, said engine including:
- a fuel injector for directly injecting fuels selected from the group consisting of liquid hydrocarbons and gaseous fuels including methane and hydrogen into a combustion chamber of the engine, said fuel injector having sensing means located within an injector housing for sensing information from fuel injection and combustion chamber events selected from the group consisting of compression, fuel pressure, fuel flow period, ignition, combustion, expansion, exhaust, and intake;
- said engine further including control means for adjusting operation of said engine responsive to said sensed information.
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