Method for providing and using an alcohol and use of the alcohol for increasing the efficiency and performance of an internal combustion engine
AssigneeSilicon Fire AG
InventorRoland Meyer-Pittroff
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Abstract
A method for providing and consuming a storable and transportable, alcohol-containing cooling fluid comprising the following steps: providing a gas with carbon dioxide fraction as a carbon supplier; providing a hydrogen fraction; producing a gaseous starting material by mixing the carbon dioxide fraction and hydrogen fraction; passing of the starting material through a reactor with a catalyst to synthesize a cooling fluid mixture of alcohol and water; and using the cooling mixture for cooling intake air, and/or compressor air or/and a fuel-air mixture of an internal combustion engine by evaporating the cooling fluid.
Claims14
A method for providing and using a methanol containing fluid comprising the steps of:
- mixing carbon dioxide gas with hydrogen gas to form a gaseous starting material;
- introducing said starting material into a reactor having a catalyst
- to synthesize by way of catalytic synthesis a methanol fluid containing between 5 and 50% by mass methanol and the remainder water;
- using said methanol fluid for cooling intake air, compressor air, charge air and/or a fuel-air mixture supplied to an internal combustion engine;
- and,
- after use as a coolant, combusting said methanol fluid with a primary fuel to power said internal combustion engine.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.