Scientists have developed a new laser-based spark plug which will increase a car’s fuel efficiency and make it easier to start it in cold conditions.
The collaboration between scientist at Liverpool University and engineers at Ford Motor Company has developed the new spark plug which could help to cut harmful emissions from car engines by replacing the 90 year old technology of traditional spark plugs.
According to the team at Liverpool University, traditional spark plugs impose severe constraints on our ability to achieve ultra lean burn by manipulating combustion: they ignite the charge in a fixed position, so they can’t cope with a stratified charge.
Igniting the charge using optical energy generated by lasers, known as Laser Ignition (LI) could circumvent spark plugs’ limitations but when the idea emerged, lasers were too big to fit in an engine compartment and our understanding of the technology was still in its infancy. Since then, we’ve learned how to harness lasers in myriad applications and make them a lot smaller.
Engineers in the US and Europe have already demonstrated successful LI in gas turbines and rockets, but automotive engines were a very different proposition and previous research in this area was limited to preliminary studies on basic combustion processes. “That’s not surprising”, comments the head of the Powertrain Laboratory at Liverpool University, Dr Tom Shenton, “since it was obvious it would be a risky enterprise.”
A successful outcome could bring significant benefits, however: a LI system should reduce not only fuel consumption, but also emissions. With increasingly stringent limits on emissions from new vehicles due to come into force in the EU over the decade, the time is right to push carbon-reducing technologies forward.
This month the team has expanded to include Paul Dickinson and Jack Mullett – and is to embark on the next phase of the research, funded by the Carbon Trust. Their aim is to develop LI systems for next-generation car engines based on efficient, downsized gasoline direct injection (GDI) technologies. In the process, they expect to increase engine efficiency and further reduce exhaust emissions.
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From 14 years exists the revolutionary patent on the plasmic ignition about the name FireStorm Spark Plug — in spite of efforts of the inventor nobody wants to produce him. The motor industry entered into the crisis but nobody aroused sie with this patent!
New spark plug -plasma spark plug reduce 70% fuel reduce CO2 zero-O-
emissions CO2 !!!!!
For years now, I have wondered where and when the next Edison with a
bright idea will appear and invent a “lean, green, driving machine”.
I have finally found such a man. He lives in Farmington Hills,
Michigan, and his name is Robert Krupa
We have all heard the saying, “If something sounds too good to be
true, itsually is”. The amazing new spark plug designed by Mr Krupa,
which he named “FireStorm”, is the exception to this rule.
named “FireStorm”, is the exception to this rule.
I know that when it comes to buying spark plugs, they are all
basically the same except for the price. So, why make the same except for
the price. So, why make
a big deal about another new spark plug?
Fire Storm Capabilities
First, let look at what Krupa FireStorm spark plugs give an
internal
combustion engine:
More horsepower;
44-50% increase in mpg;
Dramatic decrease in emissions.
Second, let see what FireStorm plugs eliminate:
Smog pump;
Catalytic converter;
Radio frequency interference (RFI) and the use of resistors in the
centre
electrode;
Gap growth;
Exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) systems;
Misfire/hesitation/detonation/stutter and stumble.
How, you may ask, is all this achieved? In a word, plasma. The
revolutionary design of FireStorm spark plugs creates an electric
plasma
that fills the entire combustion chamber like a firestorm. It allows
you
to take an internal combustion engine from the standard 14.7:1
air-to-fuel
ratio to an incredibly lean 24:1,30:1,40:1. At this ratio, all the
air/fuel mixture
is burned much more efficiently without increasing heat, thus
giving
an
engine more power and fuel economy while creating much less
pollution.
The bad news is that you can buy a set of FireStorm spark plugs
anywhere right now.
http://www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=87928
Radio interview with the inventor
http://odeo.com/episodes/22575785-Robert-Krupa-Jun-02-2008
http://web.archive.org/web/20051216110959/www.robertstanley.biz/firestorm.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abwXApkLhbc
Comment by Henryk Mongiało — February 5, 2010 @ 10:13 am
Solution on now !!
The FireStorm Plasma iPlug is a new entry in the formerly mundane area of Spark Plugs. All Spark Plugs produce “sparks” to ignite the Air Fuel Mixture in the combustion Chambers. FireStorm is different, it produces “PLASMA”. By doing that, it eliminates the Catalytic Converter and EGR Systems and can still pass future emission requirements in California.
Here is a clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abwXApkLhbc
Further testing after that clip was shot in Detroit proved a 70% savings in fuel all while affording a 125 More Horsepower.
It is a Paradigm Shift in Air Fuel Ratio as this plug operates at 30 to 1 Air to Fuel Ratio. All current IC engines operate at 14.7 to 1 and require a Cat and EGR.
FireStorm can even crack water right in the Combustion_Chamber thereby eliminating so-called HHO Generators. Can I hear fill your car up at the side of your house with the garden hose? YES!!!!
http://contest.techbriefs.com/component/content/article/134
Comment by Henryk — June 10, 2010 @ 5:58 am
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