WO2008072942A1

WO2008072942A1 - System and method for obtaining a high-energy fuel, by means of ozonization of fuel vapour, and fuel obtain ed thereby

Info

Publication number: WO2008072942A1
Application number: PCT/MX2006/000142
Authority: WO
Inventors: Andrés Abelino CHOZA ROMERO
Original assignee: Choza Romero Andres Abelino
Priority date: 2006-12-13
Filing date: 2006-12-13
Publication date: 2008-06-19

Abstract

System and method for obtaining a high-energy fuel, by means of ozonization of fuel vapour, and fuel obtained thereby. The invention consists in generating compressed air with a compressor (1), drying it with a drying filter (3), purifying it with a zeolite filter (4), thereby obtaining only oxygen which is conducted to a high-voltage ozone reactor (5) in order to generate ozone and mix it with the vapour (10) of the liquid fuel (11) in a first closed container (7) which is connected to a second container (9) for storage of the liquid fuel (11). The ozone-fuel vapour stoichiometric mixture is sent to the combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine (14). The system also includes a first non-return valve (15) located between the ozone reactor (5) and the first container (7) and a second non-return valve (8) located between the first container (7) and the combustion chamber, and also hoses (2) for connecting the components to each other.

Description

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OBTAINING A HIGH FUEL

ENERGIZED, THROUGH THE VAPOR OZONIZATION OF THE

FUEL, AND FUEL SO OBTAINED

TECHNICAL FIELD OF THE INVENTION

The present invention has to do with the technical fields of automotive mechanics, more specifically with the substances used as fuels to move cars, since it provides a system and method to obtain a highly energized fuel, by means of vapor ozonation of said fuel. This results in a fuel that, in small quantities, provides vehicles with greater energy, reducing, in addition, the generation of pollutants caused by the combustion of such combustible substances currently used.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

The problems of environmental pollution and the scarcity of natural energy resources are currently leading us to the search for new fuels that help us mitigate these problems. That is why, we seek to get fuels that do not pollute, that have high energy efficiency, less dangerous and that are economical. As a result of such a search, the following alternatives have been found (Environmental Protection Agency of the United States of America) -:

-Electricity, battery-powered vehicles do not emit practically pollutants, however, power plants that produce electricity do pollute even if they are located in rural areas, in addition, the distance that an electric vehicle reaches is limited by the amount of energy that the battery is capable of supplying.

-Ethanol (grain alcohol) is the main fuel for cars in Brazil. In its pure state it offers excellent performance, less emissions of hydrocarbons and toxic substances. This substance can be obtained in addition of the grains, of cellulosic waste materials. But the current cost and technology structures, ethanol is more expensive than gasoline. In the United States of America they have used mixtures of ethanol and gasoline.

- Methanol (wood alcohol), such as ethanol, is a high-performance liquid fuel that produces low levels of toxic compounds and ozone. It can be produced at comparable prices, to natural gas, coal and wood gasoline. In fact, cars that burn pure ethanol and mixed with gasoline have already been manufactured, but the range of the vehicle is limited.

- Natural gas (methane), this gas is abundant, widely known and used, it costs a little less than gasoline and causes low levels of toxic substances and hydrocarbons that form ozone. However, such gas has to be stored under pressure in heavy tanks, so the cost of accommodating those tanks must be considered, another drawback is that the vehicle has little reach.

- Propane, or liquefied petroleum gas, is a byproduct of oil refining and natural gas production. It burns cleaner than gasoline, but its supply is limited. Vehicles driven with this substance are already common in many parts of the world.

-The reformulated and oxygenated gasoline are gasoline formulations that emit less hydrocarbons, nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide and toxic substances, than conventional gasoline. These gasoline can be introduced without major modifications to the fuel distribution system of existing vehicles. But this has resulted in the rising cost of the product.

An internal combustion engine is a machine designed and constructed to extract the thermal energy contained in a fuel and transform it into usable mechanical energy. The fuel for these engines are the hydrocarbons mixed with air, the most used is gasoline, followed by diesel and to a lesser extent, methane, alcohol, methanol, etc.

A kilogram of gasoline generates in physical-chemical terms about 7350 kilocalories, which is equivalent to the thermal energy required to carry 105 liters of water from a temperature of 0 to 100 ° C.

An engine that could take advantage of all this energy without any loss, something that is far from being achieved, could move a vehicle of about 1200 kilograms at a speed of 150 kilometers per hour and consume on average only 3.8 liters of gasoline per 100 Km of travel However, our modern engines have barely achieved an average efficiency of only slightly more than 30%, even with the application of modern electronic fuel dosing technology.

To fulfill its function as fuel and generate the highest possible thermal efficiency in a given engine, the gasoline must be burned inside the combustion chamber according to a precise combination of air and gasoline, called stoichiometric mixture, which should be of 14.7 parts in weight of air for each part in weight of gasoline; that is, to efficiently burn a gram of gasoline, 14.7 g of air will be required, the mixture dosed in this proportion allows two things to be achieved, generating maximum energy and minimum pollution.

In order to save fuel in a vehicle, devices and methods for such purpose have already been invented, for example, those devices and methods that are based on the magnetization of the fuel, which are placed in the hose that conducts the fuel to the engine. . But the efficiency achieved is low.

In the patent EP 1672049 an apparatus for the gasification of a fuel is described, which comprises a first reactor circuit that includes a thermal generated, to heat a reactor at a certain temperature to start the gasification of the fuel, the reactor has an input for receive at fuel and an outlet to expel the synthesis of gases, characterized in that the reactor is provided with a secondary reactor circuit, which comprises a flow control device for regulating an amount of ozone provided for a reactor comprising a circulation chamber " toroidal "gas, arranged around the periphery of the reactor, said gas chamber has perforations that allow the flow of gas to the reactor. This device is of a very complicated construction, in addition to that it is designed to gasify solid fuels, such as wood, plastics, etc.

The patent EP 1672049 also describes a gasification process, which consists in heating a reactor at a certain temperature to start the gasification of a fuel stored by a thermal generator; inject a fuel into the reactor; expel the synthesis of gases from the reactor; characterized by regulating an amount of ozone provided for the reactor; suffocate the synthesis of expelled gases; reduce an acid content of the synthesis of expelled gases; recirculating a portion of the expelled gas synthesis.

Technologies have also been developed that use ozone to energize combustible substances in cars, such is the case of US patent 2194887, which describes a method to increase the combustion of a liquid hydrocarbon fuel, specifically gasoline, with the purpose of increasing efficiency and energy when used in internal combustion machines of cars and airplanes. Said method consists of applying ozone directly to the fuel passage line, then said ozone fuel, passes to the carburet to be atomized and finally reaches the internal combustion chamber. In patent application WO 02/42629, reference is made to a method of ozonation of a mixture of air and fuel, for internal combustion machines, where the method provides ozonation to at least one of the components of such a mixture. In US Patent 4519357 it refers to an air ozonator to be installed in the internal air path of an internal combustion machine, to produce ozone and other oxidizing agents within the machine. While patent 5762655 describes a first method for producing an improved fuel for internal combustion machines and turbines, the method consists of forming a common liquid fuel and bubbling an ozone-oxygen mixture; a second method that consists in enriching the liquid oxygen fuel and subjecting it under ultraviolet light radiation, to ozonize it.

For its part, patent application L) S 2004/0219404 carving an arrangement for applying ozone to a fuel cell, which comprises an internal chamber of a material translucent to ultraviolet light, provided with inputs and outputs; mechanisms to admit O2 under pressure; an external chamber that covers the internal chamber and that has ultraviolet light walls; mechanisms to form an arc of mercury inside the external chamber to generate ultraviolet light; and mechanisms for feeding ozone to the fuel cell.

As it can be seen, all technologies that use ozone, to energize a liquid fuel, are by means of direct mixing of ozone with liquid fuel, which, according to the experiments and tests carried out in the present invention, does not give the results as Io obtained, which are more superior.

With the purpose of eliminating the aforementioned drawbacks, a novel system and method was developed to obtain a highly energized fuel, by means of ionization with ozone, of the vapors emitted by the fuel in a liquid state; Which results in fuel savings, greater vehicle engine efficiency and less pollution. Said system and method I describe below. DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

The characteristic details of the system and the method for obtaining a highly energized fuel, of the present invention, are clearly shown in the following description and in the accompanying figure, which is mentioned by way of example and should not be considered as limiting to the present invention.

Brief description of the figures:

Figure 1 is a schematic diagram of the system for obtaining a highly energized fuel, of the present invention. Figure 2 is a schematic diagram of an embodiment of the system for obtaining a highly energized fuel, of the present invention.

The system for obtaining a highly energized fuel, by means of the ozonation of the steam of said fuel, is designed to be coupled to the combustion machine of an existing vehicle, for which only small changes are made; However, it should be clarified that this system can be included from the construction of a new engine.

According to Figure 1, the system of the present invention is constituted by: a conventional air compressor 1, such as that used by an internal combustion engine of a vehicle, which is obviously placed in the vehicle's engine 14 to generate compressed air that is conducted through a hose 2 to a conventional drying filter 3 to remove moisture from the compressed air; at least one conventional zeolite filter 4 to purify the compressed air and obtain only the oxygen from said air and then pass the O2 to a high voltage ozone reactor 5, which in turn is provided with an electronic circuit 6 to increase a frequency of 60 to 1000 Hertz and invert a voltage of 110 to 12 volts, to provide the energy necessary for the oxidation of oxygen and generate an amount of ozone, which is received by the input top of a first closed container 7, which contains an amount of liquid fuel of 1 to 2 Liters 11.

In turn, this first container 7 is provided with: electro-levels (not shown) to keep that volume of fuel 11 constant; of a lower perforation to receive the fuel 11, by means of a conduit 12 that comes from a second container 9 that stores said fuel 11; and of a superior lateral perforation where the mixture that is formed of the ozone with the steam 10 produced by the fuel itself moves. The stoichiometric mixture rich in ozone obtained (ozone + fuel vapor) continues through the hose 2 towards the combustion chamber of the vehicle engine 14, so that it can be used in said combustion. An option to this first reservoir 7 is that a tube with perforations made at 45 ° with respect to the axis of the tube (not shown) is placed internally and in a horizontal position, so that it distributes ozone evenly within the space where the fuel vapor

It should be noted that it is necessary to place a first non-return valve 15 between the ozone reactor 5 and the first vessel 7; and a second non-return valve 8 between the first vessel 7 and the internal combustion chamber 14, to prevent the stoichiometric mixture from returning and avoid undesirable explosions.

One of the variants that the present system has is that in the oxygen admission chamber 16 a second zeolite filter 17 is added to purify the air entering the combustion chamber 14, allowing only the entry of oxygen into said chamber. To the oxygen admission chamber 16 of Ie, an inlet is conditioned to receive the hose 2 that carries the stoichiometric mixture. This eliminates the carburetor or fuel injectors in a conventional vehicle (see figure 2).

The invention also includes all other variants that can be made to the present system, to name a few, the compressor can be the same as the vehicle engine The fuel 11 α ozonize is gasoline, diesel, butane gas, or the like.

In this way it is possible to obtain a new stoichiometric mixture enriched with highly energized ozone, which makes Ia highly explosive and propitiates the vehicle's engine that produces enough energy to make said vehicle work. For example, this means that with 1 L of gasoline, a car travels 50 to 60 km per hour, depending on the weight of the vehicle.

The invention also comprises a method for obtaining a highly energized fuel, by means of the ozonation of the vapor of said fuel, said method comprises the steps of: generating compressed air with a conventional air compressor 1, such as that used by an internal combustion engine of A vehicle; drying the compressed air by means of a conventional drying filter 3; purify the compressed air with at least one conventional zeolite filter 4 and obtain only the oxygen from said air; generate an amount of ozone through a high voltage ozone reactor 5, which in turn is provided with an electronic circuit 6 to increase a frequency of 60 to 1000 Hertz and reverse a voltage of 1 10 to 12 volts; and obtain a stoichiometric mixture, constituted with ozone and steam 10 produced by the fuel itself.

The uses that can be given to the mixture (ozone + fuel vapor) obtained by the method described above, are several, for example:

1. As fuel for internal combustion machines of land, air and sea mobiles.

2. As fuel electricity generating plants. 3. As fuel for torches used in the blacksmith's, in liquid heaters that use gas, stoves, etc.

4. As explosive fuel in mining activities.

5. As a fuel in other industrial activities, where heating is required, such as ovens, smelters, etc.

Claims

CLAIMS Having fully described my invention, which I consider a novelty, I come to claim as my exclusive property, the matter contained in the following clauses:

1. A system for obtaining a highly energized fuel, by means of the ozonation of the vapor of said fuel, characterized in that it is constituted of: i) a conventional air compressor, such as that used by an internal combustion engine of a vehicle, which is externally placed in the vehicle's engine to generate compressed air that is conducted through a hose to; ii) a conventional drying filter to remove moisture from the compressed air; iii) at least one conventional zeolite filter to purify the compressed air and obtain only the oxygen from said air and then pass the O ₂ to;

V) a high voltage ozone reactor, which in turn is provided with an electronic circuit to increase a frequency from 60 to 1000 Hertz and reverse a voltage of 1 10 to 12 volts, to provide the energy needed for the oxygen oxidation and generate an amount of ozone, which is received by the upper input of; v) a first closed container, which contains 1 to 2 liters of fuel; said container is provided with electro-levels to keep that volume of fuel constant; of a lower perforation to receive the fuel, by means of a conduit that comes from a second container that stores said fuel and from a superior lateral perforation where a hose is connected to move the mixture that is formed of the ozone with the steam that produces the fuel itself; vi) a second container that stores said fuel vii) a first non-return valve between the ozone reactor and the first container; and a second non-return valve located between the first vessel and the internal combustion chamber, to prevent the stoichiometric mixture from returning and avoid undesirable explosions; and viii) conductive elements, such as hoses or the like.

2. A system for obtaining a highly energized fuel, by means of the ozonation of the vapor of said fuel, according to claim 1, characterized in that in the vehicle's oxygen admission chamber, a second zeolite filter is added to purify the incoming air to the combustion chamber, thus allowing only the entry of oxygen into said chamber; and said air intake chamber is conditioned an inlet to receive the hose that carries the stoichiometric mixture.

3. A system for obtaining a highly energized fuel, by means of vapor ozonation of said fuel, according to the claims

1 and 2, characterized in that the compressor can be the same as the vehicle's engine.

4. A system for obtaining a highly energized fuel, by means of the ozonation of the vapor of said fuel, according to the preceding claims, characterized in that the first tank has internally and in a horizontal upper position, a tube with perforations made at 45 ° with respect to the axis of the tube, so that it distributes ozone evenly within the space where the fuel vapor is located.

5. A system to obtain a highly energized fuel, by

The ozonation of the vapor of said fuel, according to the previous clauses, characterized in that the fuel to be ozonized is gasoline, diesel butane gas, or the like.

6. A method to obtain a highly energized fuel, by

The ozonation of the vapor of said fuel, which comprises the steps of: generating compressed air with a conventional air compressor, such as that used by an internal combustion engine of a vehicle; drying the compressed air by means of a conventional drying filter; purify the compressed air with at least one conventional zeolite filter and obtain only the oxygen from said air; generate an amount of ozone through a high voltage ozone reactor, which in turn is provided with an electronic circuit to increase a frequency from 60 to 1000 Hertz and reverse a voltage of 1 to 10

12 volts; characterized in that an amount of ozone is mixed with a quantity of steam from a fuel; and obtain a stoichiometric mixture, constituted with ozone and the steam produced by the fuel itself.

7. A highly energized fuel, consisting of a mixture of ozone and steam that produces a liquid fuel, characterized in that it is obtained by the method described in clause 6.

8. A method for saving fuel in land, air and sea mobiles using internal combustion chamber, by means of the ozonation of the steam of said fuel, which comprises the steps of: generating compressed air with a conventional air compressor, such as the one uses an internal combustion engine of a vehicle; drying the compressed air by means of a conventional drying filter; purify the compressed air with at least one conventional zeolite filter and obtain only the oxygen from said air; generate an amount of ozone through a high voltage ozone reactor, which in turn is provided with an electronic circuit to increase a frequency from 60 to 1000

Hertz and reverse a voltage of 1 10 to 12 volts; characterized in that an amount of ozone is mixed with a quantity of steam from a fuel; and obtain a stoichiometric mixture, constituted with ozone and the steam produced by the fuel itself.