Ecosceptor - Fuel Economy Technical Report

The attached document covers a variety of different technologies and techniques used in order to obtain gains in fuel economy.  It helps to give a general overview of how these techniques work and the practicality of implimenting them into modern day vehicles.

Listed below is a brief summary of the topics discussed.

1. Is improved fuel economy possible?
1. How efficient are today's vehicles?
2. Has anybody ever done it before?
1. Pogue
2. Ogle
3. Others
2. How did they do it?
1. Vaporizing the fuel
2. Merely heating 
3. Chemical additives
4. Tuning
5. Engine Modifications
6. Hydrogen (and variations thereof)
7. Thermal Catalytic Cracking (TCC)
8. Plasma
9. Magnets
10. Turbocharging
11. Water injection
3. How combustion works
4. Can it be improved?
1. Improve flame propagation speed
1. Better vaporize the fuel
2. Better homogenize the fuel with the air
3. Add a combustion accelerant
4. Increase combustibles turbulence velocity
2. Improve combustion rate
1. Better vaporize the fuel
2. Better homogenize the fuel with the air
3. Add a combustion accelerant
4. Increase combustibles turbulence velocity
3. Improve themal-to-pressure / kinetic conversion efficiency
1. Engine design parameters
2. Expansion medium
3. Controlling moment of peak cylinder pressure
4. Increasing peak pressure at CCA while lowering overall temperature
5. How does the HHO improve efficiency?
1. Add hydrogen / oxygen blend to the combustion process
2. Tuning
6. Conclusion