US20080172928A1 - Water containing car fuel - Google Patents

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US20080172928A1
US20080172928A1 US12/006,044 US604407A US2008172928A1 US 20080172928 A1 US20080172928 A1 US 20080172928A1 US 604407 A US604407 A US 604407A US 2008172928 A1 US2008172928 A1 US 2008172928A1
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    • C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C10—PETROLEUM, GAS OR COKE INDUSTRIES; TECHNICAL GASES CONTAINING CARBON MONOXIDE; FUELS; LUBRICANTS; PEAT
    • C10L—FUELS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; NATURAL GAS; SYNTHETIC NATURAL GAS OBTAINED BY PROCESSES NOT COVERED BY SUBCLASSES C10G, C10K; LIQUEFIED PETROLEUM GAS; ADDING MATERIALS TO FUELS OR FIRES TO REDUCE SMOKE OR UNDESIRABLE DEPOSITS OR TO FACILITATE SOOT REMOVAL; FIRELIGHTERS
    • C10L1/00—Liquid carbonaceous fuels
    • C10L1/32—Liquid carbonaceous fuels consisting of coal-oil suspensions or aqueous emulsions or oil emulsions
    • C10L1/328—Oil emulsions containing water or any other hydrophilic phase

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  • the present invention relates to an emulsion of water, a car fuel, such as petrol, diesel oil or a type of vegetable oil and an emulsifier.
  • Emulsions can be used as a new car fuel and may contain at least 77 percent water by weight.
  • Object of the invention is to provide a payable car fuel that pollutes less than the usual fuels, to be realised by mixing water, at least in an amount up to 77 percent of the mixture weight, a usual car fuel and an emulsifier.
  • This invention concerns an emulsified mixture of water with a motor fuel such as gasoline or diesel, and also concerns an emulsified mixture of vegetable oil. Emulsions can be used as motor fuels.
  • a motor fuel such as gasoline or diesel
  • Emulsions can be used as motor fuels.
  • the addition of water to gasoline is known in the United States where the fluid known as “dry-gas” is added to the gasoline to mix the water present in the tank with the gasoline to form a useable fuel. This concerns only small quantities of water.
  • Characteristic of the emulsions according to this invention is also that the quantity of fuel can be as low as 23 percent of the total weight of water and fuel, which means that the water forms more than 77 percent.
  • An example of a successful automotive fuel combination is an emulsion consisting of 10.7 percent gasoline, 19.3 percent vegetable oil and 70 percent water. Mixtures with more vegetable oil are also suitable for using as a motor fuel. Assuming that gasoline, octane, has a carbon content of 82%, this implies that the amount of CO2 emitted by the mixture is only 324 grams per kilogram of emulsion. This is a 90% reduction of emissions compared to the use of gasoline alone.
  • Emulsions that separate can be reconverted to homogeneous fuel by stirring or shaking.

Abstract

Emulsions of mineral automobile fuel, such as gasoline and diesel oil, and containing at least 77 percent by weight of water, are described as a usable motor fuel. When vegetable oil is worked into the mixture, the automotive fuel can contain a percentage of water that can vary over a wide range.
The advantages in using fuel mixtures are lower fuel consumption, lower CO2 emissions, affordable automobile fuel, and a lengthening of the period for which the increasingly scarce reserves of mineral oil will be available.

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    BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
  • 1. Field of the Invention
  • The present invention relates to an emulsion of water, a car fuel, such as petrol, diesel oil or a type of vegetable oil and an emulsifier. Emulsions can be used as a new car fuel and may contain at least 77 percent water by weight.
  • 2. Brief Summary of the Invention
  • Object of the invention is to provide a payable car fuel that pollutes less than the usual fuels, to be realised by mixing water, at least in an amount up to 77 percent of the mixture weight, a usual car fuel and an emulsifier.
    • DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
  • This invention concerns an emulsified mixture of water with a motor fuel such as gasoline or diesel, and also concerns an emulsified mixture of vegetable oil. Emulsions can be used as motor fuels. The addition of water to gasoline is known in the United States where the fluid known as “dry-gas” is added to the gasoline to mix the water present in the tank with the gasoline to form a useable fuel. This concerns only small quantities of water.
  • The Austrian patent in the name of Gerhard Auer Int. WO 95/25154, predominately describes the creation of alcohol-water and gasoline-diesel-water emulsions containing less than 70% water by volume.
  • Furthermore, the American patent U.S. 2004/0121202 A1 gives the compositions of emulsions for improving fuel cell functioning.
  • The American patent U.S. 2004/0005622 A1 describes an emulsion that improves the combustion of carbon particles. It has been shown experimentally that mixtures containing by weight only 20 percent conventional mineral automobile fuel and 80 percent water can be used as automobile fuels.
  • Characteristic of the emulsions according to this invention is also that the quantity of fuel can be as low as 23 percent of the total weight of water and fuel, which means that the water forms more than 77 percent.
  • When vegetable oil is mixed with mineral fuel water and emulsifier, the percentage can vary over a wide range.
  • An example of a successful automotive fuel combination is an emulsion consisting of 10.7 percent gasoline, 19.3 percent vegetable oil and 70 percent water. Mixtures with more vegetable oil are also suitable for using as a motor fuel. Assuming that gasoline, octane, has a carbon content of 82%, this implies that the amount of CO2 emitted by the mixture is only 324 grams per kilogram of emulsion. This is a 90% reduction of emissions compared to the use of gasoline alone.
  • Emulsions that separate can be reconverted to homogeneous fuel by stirring or shaking.
  • Assuming a mixture of 80% water and 20% gasoline, leads to the estimate that the engine cylinder pressure can rise to more than 80 kg/cm2. This is higher than the pressure occurring in normal gasoline engines. However, the ignition temperature is lower than in gasoline engines.
  • The advantages in using fuel mixtures are lower fuel consumption, lower CO2 emissions, affordable automobile fuel, and longer use of the increasingly scarce oil reserves.

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1. Emulsions of water and fuel, such as gasoline, diesel oil, and oil, can be used as fuels in motors, with the characteristic that the water content is more than 77 percent of the total weight of the emulsion.
2. An emulsified mixture of water, a mineral automotive fuel and a vegetable oil can be used as an automotive fuel.
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US10308885B2 (en) 2014-12-03 2019-06-04 Drexel University Direct incorporation of natural gas into hydrocarbon liquid fuels

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US6368367B1 (en) * 1999-07-07 2002-04-09 The Lubrizol Corporation Process and apparatus for making aqueous hydrocarbon fuel compositions, and aqueous hydrocarbon fuel composition

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US9493709B2 (en) 2011-03-29 2016-11-15 Fuelina Technologies, Llc Hybrid fuel and method of making the same
US10308885B2 (en) 2014-12-03 2019-06-04 Drexel University Direct incorporation of natural gas into hydrocarbon liquid fuels

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