Consider A Hydrogen Fuel Injection System To Raise Fuel Mileage
Gas is now costing above $4.00 a gallon today. Consequently drivers are searching for affordable ways to reduce their fuel costs and increase their mileage.
This raise in prices has prompted some to look again at forgotten technologies from the past. Hydrogen fuel injection systems, aka hydrogen boosted gasoline systems, is one of these ideas.
NASA in 1977 released the research paper “Emissions And Total Energy Consumption Of A Multicylinder Piston Engine Running on Gasoline And A Hydrogen-Gasoline Mixture”. This essay proposes including small amounts of hydrogen to gasoline before it is introduced into the combustion chamber. Hydrogen’s higher flame speed causes the fuel to combust hotter and more efficiently. As a result increased gas mileage and reduced emissions.
The paper continues to say that “Onboard generation of hydrogen was selected as a feasible way to use hydrogen in a mobile application.” This leaves the challenge of how to generate the onboard hydrogen.
The easiest way is using electrolysis. Electrolysis uses the current from the vehicle’s electrical system to break up water, H2O, into HHO (two atoms of free hydrogen and one atom of oxygen). The HHO mixture is then introduced straight into the car’s intake system where is burned along with the gasoline.
The results are less gasoline being consumed thus rising mileage and decreasing pollution. HHO burns cleaner then gasoline with the only byproduct of water vapor.
A lot of experts are saying that hydrogen fuel cells are the final solutions to our energy needs. Hydrogen fuel injection systems at present have several advantages over fuel cells.
1) Fuel cells are currently costly. Over time their price should drop but that does not help our present energy problems.
2) Currently there is no hydrogen distribution system in place to refuel fuel cell vehicles.
3) With hydrogen fuel injection systems there is no storage of explosive hydrogen. The hydrogen is created as needed and burned right away.
4) Retrofitting hydrogen fuel injection system to our current vehicles is easy.
5) Hydrogen fuel injection systems can be applied for just a few hundred dollars and a few hours of work. Do-it-yourself books can be purchased or ready to install system are obtainable.
Currently thousands of cars are using hydrogen fuel injection and the number will only grow. These people are benefitting from greater mileage, less pollution and at the same time saving on gasoline.