Gasification

[Ken-Arne Jensen]

> These threads which have discussed injecting on the back of valves and
> preheating the mixture remind me of a project I started many years ago, and
> never finished. Maybe I could resurrect it?
> 
> The premise was that the most efficient combustion would be of a gas. This
> would mean transferring the vapour into a gaseous state, which I believe has
> infinitely small droplet size. Heating the liquid to give it energy would
> approach this, but is impractical for obvious inlet temperature reasons.
> 

I talked to an marine tech guy some time ago, and he said that in fact
a carburetor does a fairly good job of vapourizing the gaz.
Of course EFI is better totally, but the vapourizing is good for a carb.
He also mentioned one problem with EFI and the use of the back of the
valves to vaporize, is that this might crack the valves under extreme
conditions. Anyone who wants to comment on this?


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