Rabbit wrote:sen-no-sen wrote:"Move along, there's nothing to see!
There is no such thing as overgrowth. But there is something. My knowledge
in chemistry are insufficient to understand, would it be possible
that the dissociated water optimizes the combustion of the oil?
Part of the energy produced by the combustion of the oil is
can be recovered to dissociate water. Oxygen and hydrogen
thus available will react with the oil vapor to produce
gases with better combustion efficiency.
Since the efficiency of the engines is far from Carnot's maximum, any modification, even at random, like adding a little water, has a XNUMX/XNUMX chance of improving as much as reducing the efficiency of an engine with very complex combustion.
So perfectly possible to improve the yield a bit, depending on the chance of the conditions.
But you have to measure with precision, a measurement rarely made by just looking at consumption over hundreds of km, under conditions never the same.
A priori, dissociate the cost steam water from the energy which is fully recovered by reforming it by burning the H2 and 02 formed.
So no change in the overall energy balance, if not too much water, but the change in combustion conditions, less violent can be, can improve the performance, with luck, as much as decrease it with bad luck, for combustion very complex (turbulence with chaos, full of more or less rapid and complete chemical reactions, etc.).