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BernieQ2 wrote: ↑Sun Jan 21, 2024 12:29 pm
It would have to be set up like car's, start with diesel then turn the gas on and diesel off.???
At the moment it just gives it a bit of gas to give more HP for hills, with no way to turn diesel off
Bernie.
I was thinking more along the lines of the LPG providing some of the power the diesel was providing, so basically the injector pump runs at a reduced throttle position so less diesel was fed into the engine but the LPG filled in the required power at lighter throttle positions .....
T1 Terry
A person may fail many times, they only become a failure when they blame someone else John Burrows
Those who struggle to become a leader, rarely know a clear direction forward for anyone but themselves
Morning everyone.
DAM it's hot...already in the high 20s and only 5am...QLD..
Still to finish unloading the motorhome...maybe today...
I bought some veggie seedlings when away...I planted them out yesterday.
Nothing much going on around here...Carol will be off to Bingo with here mate's today...give me some quite time
Old girlfriend from back in the 60s...(before Carol) got InTouch with me...via facebook messenger...had a good chat...her and hubbie have a cuppla hundred acres.
keep safe and cool people.
Bernie.
Good morning All. 21* and 25* forecast.
We were visited by 5 Magpies, 3 Crimson Rosellas, 2 King Parrots, 3 Rainbow Lorrikeets and 2 Crested Pigeons, all fighting over the food supply.
Tomorrow's forecast is for 24* so I should get some mowing done today or tomorrow, better get some fuel and also, while I'm out, some hearing aid batteries.
All the birds have had their fill and departed.
George
George, Julie, Leonie & Sean - Kotara, Newcastle
DIY 11.5M 1979 Bedford, Nissan/UD FE6T motor
BernieQ2 wrote: ↑Sun Jan 21, 2024 12:29 pm
It would have to be set up like car's, start with diesel then turn the gas on and diesel off.???
At the moment it just gives it a bit of gas to give more HP for hills, with no way to turn diesel off
Bernie.
I was thinking more along the lines of the LPG providing some of the power the diesel was providing, so basically the injector pump runs at a reduced throttle position so less diesel was fed into the engine but the LPG filled in the required power at lighter throttle positions .....
There was a period where they attempted to integrate LPG into the single rail computer controlled diesel injection to increase power, but emissions suffered and the single rail injection engines already made big power compared to the old mechanical injection.
Later discoveries lead to adding LPG rather than Ad Blu to get the same emissions improvements and a cost saving as well, Ad Blu is expensive and a slight fuel economy advantage was seen by burning LPG and diesel together.
The earlier mechanical diesel injection is a different breed, all the fuel goes in at once rather than the staggered timed injection the computer can deliver with single rail injection. The LPG increases the heat per cycle by burning the fuel faster and cleaning up the black exhaust smoke caused by to partly burnt diesel. If added as a liquid in each intake runner, it also acted as a cooling agent, allowing more air per cycle and a denser fuel/air mass, this greatly increases the torque.
Still tossing up between LPG injection and building an electrolyser to feed hydrogen and oxygen into the intake stream.
The electrolyser idea got a bad wrap because the alternator required more power to produce the electrical energy required, than burning the hydrogen/oxygen mix provided.
In a diesel engine, it is not hp gain but rather torque improvement gives the best results. The hydrogen/oxygen mix recombines to water droplets when ignited, this becomes supper heated steam and acts on the piston on the down stroke, improving torque, by advancing the diesel injection a few degrees, the intense heat from the initial diesel detonation is absorbed by the water droplets but the whole air/diesel mix is heated to improve the atomisation of the diesel, resulting in a more complete burn ..... the single rail computer controlled injection does just that, a small pre injection just before the main fuel load in added to get the heat up in the cycle.
The other advantage is only beneficial if a turbo charger is used. The water droplets added to the exhaust increases the density and improves the driving force that powers the turbo charger, and in turn, as soon as the heat energy is converted to mechanical energy by the exhaust turbine, the exhaust leaving the turbo is cooler because the water droplets are trying to turn from steam back into water. The turbo works on the difference of pressure between the exhaust entering the turbine compared to the pressure of the exhaust leaving the turbine, the cooler the exhaust, the lower the pressure.
The elephant in the room not addressed yet, is the generation of the electrical energy required to power the electrolyser, and this is where a motorhome comes into the equation. The solar and house battery energy storage comes at zero fuel cost, so instead of using energy generated by the alternator that was driven by the crankshaft, the energy is supplied by the solar and battery storage, solar energy turned into a fuel .....
All theory at the moment, no idea if I'll ever act on it ....
T1 Terry
A person may fail many times, they only become a failure when they blame someone else John Burrows
Those who struggle to become a leader, rarely know a clear direction forward for anyone but themselves
Morning all n Dot.
Yesterday I said DAM...what I should have said was DAM DAM it was bloody hot...hit 40degs at 1 pm...and it was 37 inside the motorhome...under the shade shed
So yesterday was a TV day, I wasn't going out in that heat...when I don't have too.
It's 28.2 here at the computer right now. And I'm just back from a cuppla Ks walk and sweaty.
Carol off to Childers this morning for blood tests. I'll keep the aircon company
Keep safe and cool
Bernie.
Good morning everyone. We are heading back up to Mulwala today after a big weekend of racing. We went down to Portland for a look around and a feed yesty. The Bowls club down near the free camp puts on a pretty decent feed at a reasonable cost. It's been cool and windy, not really looking forward to 30°+ temps.
Bernie, if half the things I'm reading are correct it's gunna get windy and wet before the weekend up your way.
Anyone hear from Tanks in the past few days?
Safe travels everybody.
Cheers
David
David and Terrie 2006 Winnebago Alpine Not all who wander are lost.