EXPLANATION OF PRINCIPLES/CONCEPT BEHIND OUR TECHNOLOGY.
The motivation of the people involved in this form of combustion enhancement was the acceptance that the largest consumers of refined fossil fuels are boilers and internal combustion engines. It was obvious that the combustion process i.e. the mixing of fossil fuel and air to produce a combustible product was the common factor linking these two applications.
This approach had never been considered before and has provided the basis for the considerable amount of research, development and market ‘proving’ that has taken place over the last 30 plus years.
The original principles of hydrogen ion production by the ‘pulsing’ of air through a water/oil interface were proven on large oil and gas burning boilers. It was shown that the effect on the combustion process was beneficial both in terms of reduced fossil fuel consumption and noxious stack emissions.
There was, at this point, an underlying realisation that it was the ‘in situ’ production of a hydrogen feed in to the combustion process that resulted in the benefits obtained.
The logical step was then taken to design and prove equipment which would produce similar effects in internal combustion engines however it soon became obvious that the methods utilised on boilers to produce hydrogen were not practical in an internal combustion engine configuration.
It was at this point that a major step forward was made and the decision taken to treat the products of combustion (i.e. the exhaust) rather than the pre-combusted fuel mix (inlet) to produce the hydrogen.
The above decision was only possible because it was known that a certain amount of exhaust gas is drawn back in to the cylinders (exhaust gas reversion) therefore hydrogen released from the exhaust gas mix (by steam reforming etc.) would also be drawn back in to the cylinders.
The exhaust mounted equipment to achieve this function was designed to produce the necessary pulsations by being operated by the positive and negative waves generated in the exhaust manifold, introducing miniscule amounts of atmospheric air, over catalysts, in to the exhaust manifold.
It is the above concept of pulse air technology and means of operation that makes the Catalytic Fuel Reformer and Emissions Reducer (CFR-ER) an unique system. Patent Pending.
D. P. Jones
