Internal-combustion engines – Charge forming device – Heating of combustible mixture
Patent
1985-12-26
1987-02-24
Wolfe, Jr., Willis R.
Internal-combustion engines
Charge forming device
Heating of combustible mixture
123557, F02M 2702, F02M 3114, F02M 3118
Patent
active
046449256
ABSTRACT:
A method and apparatus are disclosed for rapidly heating vaporized fuel to elevated temperatures prior to its injection into a combustion chamber to achieve negligible ignition delay and substantially instantaneous completion of the combustion process. Heating of the fuel is initiated by preheating each quantity of fuel with heat extracted from the engine exhaust, and the preheated fuel is vaporized and subsequently rapidly heated to a high temperature by being adiabatically compressed immediately prior to injection into the combustion chamber. The fuel activation effect of compressive heating is alternatively augmented by contact of the fuel with a catalytic material, to achieve hypergolic combustion by a combination of catalysis and heating.
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Chute Richard
Hoppie Lyle O.
Scharnweber David H.
Waichunas Kenneth P.
Benefiel John R.
Eaton Corporation
Lewis J. Gordon
Wolfe, Jr. Willis R.
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