Skip,
A couple of additional notes.
It was reported the the 1,500cc Honda F1 Turbo motor
used exhaust heat around the intake ports, probably
to help vaporize the fuel (5% Gasoline, 95% ???).
Good old Smokey Y. built a small engine that ran at very
high temperature, and never pinged. The fuel air mix
went through a small turbo that produced a homogeneous
fuel air charge. Boost was only a pound or two, it was
a mixer. It ran very strong and got good mileage.
It had spark ignition.
If HCCI improves the efficiency 40%, the HP should also
increase at least 30%.
Bryan
Skip Higginbotham wrote:
> Bryan,
> I have read some about HCCI and while it is interesting, relatively
> high power outputs don't look like they are in the cards without a
> considerable amount of manifold pressure. So far experimenters have
> been heating the intake air with a heater.....the same could be
> accomplished through compressing the intake air but not using an
> intercooler. It also seems to me that a homogeneous fuel air charge
> needs to be created at a relatively slow pace. While the detonation
> characteristics are positive, it looks like significant power may not
> be. It will be fun to see where this goes (probably up in smoke) as I
> will first try to load up the cylinder with pressure and pick a fuel
> to match it in burn characteristics while using the heat generated by
> the intake air compression. Or inject the fuel into the hot intake
> air stream and homogenize it that way. Then to control it! Really not
> much different than multiple sparkplugs...just more of "them". Oh,
> likely not black oil.(-:
> Thanks,
> Skip
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