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There's a lot to be said for both the brute-force experimenter and the mathematician. The good thing about Edison was while he may or may not have been a mathematician himself, he had some working for him...that way he could prove the theories behind what he was doing.
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Electricity rules???
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I am an industrial pipe/steamfitter/welder/alloy metal specialist... by trade...till my health would not allow me to continue. Thermal heat exchange is how I made my living. I have worked with people that can weld aluminum cans together using a lincoln 200 pipeliner portable welder....the edges. I also was on crews that built and rebuilt refineries, chemical plants, food processing plants, smelting refineries, resort casinos, hydralic crane operator, etc etc etc I did electrical re-fits for Best Buy Stores...all over the USA...from the main panels to the display cases. Began my construction career by building free span bridges over rivers....before hardhats and safety harnesses were an OSHA requirement. I put myself through college. had a very active social life as well. I did vehicle mechanics as a hobby. I am one of the few people still alive that witnessed the Papp noble/inert gas engine demonstrated in Oklahoma in early 1980's...private invitation only. I came to this forum to notify. Best to you, Robert |
DC rules
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pure dc does not go positive to negative during the cycling...if you ever "got bit by a dc component" it had AC voltage capabilities. But then, you can argue that with my friend, a retired proffessor of electrical design and engineering....I sure won't. The electricity produced during those times still had some AC involved at the end product... as the filtering was not as advanced as today. The only way 300V traveled through those tubes is because they are vacuumed sealed and some have exotic gases and metal hydrides to stabilize/reduce the heat generation of the electron flow. NUFF SAID!!! Robert |
This is a strange post....
I've done some simple B.S. catcher number crunching: given: 200 ft-lb torque, 134 cubic inches, @1300 RPM HP=(torque*RPM)/(5252) HP=(200*1300)/(5252) = 49.505 HP Specific Power = HP/Displacement 49.505 HP ~ 36915.87 W and 134 cubic inches ~ 2.195867 Liters SP = 36.91587/2.195867 = 16 kW/L What's important about specific power? Well, it shows B.S.... 16 kW/L is really low actually, race cars are upwards 80 kw/L. So I suppose this is well within the realm of possibility, but makes me wonder at what engine loading was this found. All engines make very little power at cruising speed/loading. This engine seems as if it was tested while at cruising speed... we need to see real dyno curves for the entire power band. Furthermore, 6. something compression ratio is extremely low. Sounds like a tractor engine from the 1950's. The higher the compression ratio the more efficient the engine. https://www.tpub.com/content/altfuels...4/28340011.htm There's a graph to show that (very common graph, Google it if the link fails). So, considering how low the compression ratio is the low specific power isn't really a surprise. But why would this indicate an extremely efficient revolutionary new engine design? What kind of fuel are you burning? What is the brake specific fuel consumption? What engine loading was tested at the dyno? This all seems very fishy to me.... |
This is why I ask the question if its generating a whole different source of energy other then the gasoline. Maybe the gasoline is just enough to keep the energy moving in a rotational manner?
The numbers I crunch into my home brew spreadsheet say that this thing is running at a BSFC of .05 lbs/hr(<thats not a mis-print thats .05 not .5) or 30.41 g/kWh in which is way beyond the fuel itself. Plus what I'm getting with these numbers of 48oz per/hr is a fuel mileage of 155mpg @ 60mph.:eek: All this sounds out of this world. But I'm all for trying to keep an open mind and learn anything new to me. Magnetic fields are pretty french to me so I have to go with i don't know on this one. Heck i would put a fork through a toaster and tie it to my car antenna if i knew it could some how help with efficiency.;) |
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Wierd numbers no doubt
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Good work you posting. I repeat...no new engine design !!! YUPPER...the numbers do come out wierd. The engine is rated at 28-30 hsp...when made in 1957. The best it did was at 2200 rpm's when the torque began to fall off quickly. The engine never has been over hauled....compression tests at 110-115 psi How am I able to get the same torque with less fuel at lower rpm's Reduce fuel consumption at the same time??? Why would I ever want to rev past 2000 rpm much less to 5252 rpm? the engine has never been tested at 5252 rpm...never will be. The higher the compression ratio the more efficient the engine... rule of thumb...applies only if at each compression ratio the fuel has specifically controlled octane values...that is how they get the higher kw/l in "racing engines" Are you aware that in the late 70's a couple of guys designed an atomizing mixer below the carburator...and found that fuel with 72 octane worked very well up...better than 87-92 octane... to 4000 rpm's...improved fuel efficienies ...which was about 45 mpg...almost eliminated the bad exhaust gases...and Ford did the testing...and improved the low rpm torque so that the gutless inline 6 cylinders would actually smoke the tires just with hard accelleration... no popping the clutch. Had they changed the driveline slighly...they would have gotten better mpg. After 4000 rpm's the A/F and thermodynamics got all wrong...and fell flat. That was an 8.0-1 compression ratio engine.(?) No turbo invloved either. When you want to state compression ratios and efficiencies and include exhaust emissions with octane numbers...then the BS numbers matter. Ford proved it to themselves it worked very well indeed... then refused to put it into market because the oil refineries make mega bucks making you believe that the higher octane gasolines are what you have to have. Higher octane rating equals slower burn times....that simple. Lower compression equals lower cylinder temperatures...which do not make the harmful exhaust gases...in such quanities....that simple. Robert |
5252 is a conversion factor you need when using English values for calculating horsepower.
Thermodynamic efficiency refers to (how much you get)/(how much you put in). The graph is for an ideal Otto cycle, fuel has nothing to do with it... only the ideal cycle. Remember that's an ideal cycle, the real cycle doesn't get that efficiency. Then on top of that there are losses from friction, heat transfer, etc... real cars actually get 30% efficiency if they are really nice engines. I really don't buy into the oil company conspiracy theory stuff. Here's why... when the U.S. economy took a dive recently so did the oil prices. Supply and Demand wasn't violated. I really don't think the oil companies have us by the balls as many people think. We use gasoline because it's cheap and there's plenty of it. If Ford could SUCCESFULLY create a 45 MPG carbureted car, market it to the public, and make money from it they would. The oil companies will sell crap on a stick to us if it burnes well and makes them money. |
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What a good starting point...magnetic fields...as I posted earlier...I manipulate the strength of the magnetic fields of the ICE. magnets you buy have a static gauss value...constant...limited reactions. Not to be insulting...heat will lower the gauss measurement of any magnet made...pure physics. Everything we know that is measurable has a guass value...in relationship to our constant earth magnetic field and maintains its shape. Simplistic overview??? Why noone has ever approached the efficienices of the ICE from this viewpoint was a puzzle to me. Then I had the lightbulb moment. Magnetic field strengths change over a much slower time frame. The expectations of reaction times is quite different. noone took the time...as I have. A required discipline of patient observations...combined with the ability to re-tune...changing A/F ..tuning by ear???...by feel??? Had I been trying to win races...I would have simply passed by all the good information. The gurus of ICE designs have never done as I have done. They are not authorities..so all their rules and data do not exactly apply. Noone had operated engines at 100 F coolant temps and improved efficiencies...when in reality...the coolant temps are a very poor measurement/guide of the inner cylinder tempratures...until long after the fact. Technology to go to space and back...and we do not drive 100+ mpg vehicles? That is going to change..more quickly than the powers that be want. Ain't that a shame? Robert |
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