Water Injection for power?

[Jim Zurlo]

At 07:31 PM 9/8/96 -0400, you wrote:
>
>I just looked at the current issue of "Midnight Engineering," and saw an 
>article that may be of interest.  The author suggested that, instead of 
>the usual fan/radiator/et al, the cylinders be cooled by injecting water 
>(diesel style) during the latter part of the power stroke.  The H2O would 
>flash into steam, thereby changing the heat (normally exhasted) into 
>mechanical power.
>

Southwest Research Institute did this I think sometime in the '60s or early
'70s.  They could inject enough water to eliminate the radiator, but if
memory serves me there was a problem with mineral build up inside the combustion
chamber.  It's all documented in an SAE paper.

Jim Zurlo
zurlo at execpc.com