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Title: Method of improving fuel combustion efficiency

Patent ·
OSTI ID:6202759

This patent describes a method of operating an internal combustion engine. It comprises: vaporizing a gasoline-alcohol fuel mixture by heating it in a chamber to above the final boiling point of the gasoline at one atmosphere pressure in the absence of air to form a vaporized gasoline-alcohol fuel mixture and immediately mixing the vaporized gasoline-alcohol fuel mixture with air in a carburetor without forming liquid droplets in the mixture and then immediately combusting the mixture in the engine in substantially a vaporized state. The gasoline comprises a mixture of hydrocarbons: the mixture having an intermediate carbon range relative to c{sub 4}-C{sub 12} fuel.

Assignee:
Talbert Fuel Systems, Inc., Allentown, PA (USA)
Patent Number(s):
US 4955332; A
Application Number:
PPN: US s 7-347753
OSTI ID:
6202759
Resource Relation:
Patent File Date: 5 May 1989
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English