Originally Posted By: Shannow
It's nothing new or magic...Universities were working on emulsion fuels in the 70s to help with smog. Was typically a coconut based surfactant, and 10% water, emulsified....and it did the job, dropping NOx CO, HC in exhaust systems.
However, it was a workaround for carbed engines, nothing to gain on FI engines.
As an aside, having read the articles in the 70s, in the 80s, I would ring detergent manufacturers to find which dish washing liquids had coconut derived surfactants, and make my own "napalm" gel.
As to fuel/water emulsions, and nothing being new under the sun...
http://www.emfuel.com/elib/elib003.pdf
http://www.egcfe.ewg.apec.org/publications/proceedings/CFE/Austrailia_2012/4D-3_Wibberley.pdf
http://dice-net.org/index.php/faqs#faqnoanchor
http://cs.trains.com/trn/f/111/t/102524.aspx
As to the magic of the water, link posted for information only, not endorsement
http://www.masaru-emoto.net/english/water-crystal.html
So, a coconut surfactant will emulsify water and gasoline? Interesting. I was leading to a alcohol, acetone combined to another inorganic additive(s) to do the emulsification task, but a natural detergent is another animal. Thanks for the links and thoughts on the matter, Shannow.
Thinking back, wouldn't a vibrator fuel tank & line make the water/gasoline combination, during engine running phase? You could start the engine and run the vibration process all the way to the injectors and be done.