Future of engines in this new tech?
http://www.technologyreview.com/Energy/18304/ idea in a nutshell is: burn 98% gasoline in a very high compression & turbocharged engine via old fashioned multi-port injection, but directly inject another 2% ethanol in the cylinder at just the right time to prevent detonation In several ways this MIT idea is just a logical follow-on to the approach taken by US EPA researchers who reported 5 years ago on this spark plug converted VW TDI engine burning ethanol and methanol in a highly technical article full of 'geek speek' but well worth reading 2-3 times to get the gest of most of it: http://www.epa.gov/otaq/presentation...02-01-2743.pdf Daniel Cohn, Leslie Bromberg and John Heywood at MIT have gone the way of the EPA idea, but made it 98% better (so to speak) by realizing that only 2% injected ethanol is necessary. I read a lot of engine technology articles but this is the first one I have read in awhile that could really give a 50% boost in horsepower and a 25% boost in MPG. Since the USA imports about 62% of it oil (about 20% of that from Canada and another 17% from Mexico) this type of engine tech could allow the USA to reduce consumption enough to import all its oil from its neighbors while not requiring unreasonable amounts of food to be turned into ethanol. |
RE: Future of engines in this new tech?
thats incredible... but would automakers buy into it? I think it would lessen our dependance on foriegn oil. I am not sure how signifiacntly though... we would still be burning 98% of what we do now...
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