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- From: ems@michael.apple.com (E. Michael Smith)
- Newsgroups: sci.environment,sci.energy
- Subject: Re: Nuclear Power and Climate Change
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.001538.13520@michael.apple.com>
- Date: 12 Jan 93 00:15:38 GMT
- References: <a0yrjcf@dixie.com> <1993Jan7.195051.2803@michael.apple.com> <94zr6t=@dixie.com>
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- In article <94zr6t=@dixie.com> jgd@dixie.com (John De Armond) writes:
- >ems@michael.apple.com (E. Michael Smith) writes:
- >
- >>>A demonstration and anything in production with a proven track record
- >>>is very different.
- >
- >>There are also available commercial production conversion kits to
- >>convert a diesel to use propane and natural gas as well.
- ...
- >Go ahead and post. I hope this is something mainstream and not the
- >diesel equivalent of some of these home-shop electric car conversions.
- >I'm very interested but dubious.
-
- They are production stuff from folks who do diesel for a living.
- Not whacko back room conversion sunshine uber alles stuff.. I'll
- see if I can find it in The Archives ...
-
- >For the last year or so I've been
- >researching diesels relative to power generation because I plan on
- >co-generation for my house to get out from under our Plant-Vogtle inspired
- >electric rates using our still relatively cheap natural gas supply.
- >
- >The scientific literature says basically that NG or propane can be
- >burned via intake introduction but that starting, particularly
- >in adverse conditions still requires cylinder injection of a suitably
- >high cetane fuel.
-
- You got it. Start on diesel. At about 25% power, begin NG induction.
- Continue to full power. You might be able to back off the diesel to less
- than 25%, but I'm not sure what the lower bound would be. I priced a
- kit about 2 years ago. It was about $2k from a company back East.
-
- >I picked up some SAE papers in December on the
- >topic. One paper describes some recent developments on electronically
- >controlled direct cylinder injection for NG but it is definitely
- >still in the experimental stage.
-
- Right again. Direct injection of NG is a pain, at best.
-
- If you have a small diesel available, just start it up and set the
- throtle at about 25%. Valve some propane or NG into the air intake
- and see what happens.
-
- --
-
- E. Michael Smith ems@apple.COM
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