Fuel additive for enhancing combustion efficiency and decreasing emissions

a technology of additives and fuels, applied in the direction of fuel additives, liquid carbonaceous fuels, fuels, etc., can solve the problems of increasing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, acid rain is toxic to both animals and plants, and the jet engine or heating furnace is a hazard to the ecosystem of the world, so as to reduce the emissions of toxic exhaust and increase the efficiency of burn

US20120102822A1Inactive Publication Date: 2012-05-03HOLCOMB ROBERT R +1
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2012-05-03
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Abstract

A fuel additive comprising a sol containing particles of at least one inorganic-metallic component and at least one organo-metallic component stabilized in a suitable hydrocarbon medium. The components are formed as a metal complex wherein the metallic element comprises at least one metal selected from the elements of Groups VIII to XI in the Periodic Table, preferably platinum, cobalt, nickel, copper, gold, rhodium or, most preferably, palladium. The organo component is an alkyl carboxylate, preferably acetate, and the inorganic component is derived from silicon, titanium, aluminum, and preferably silicate. The additive is preferably formed by (a) forming an aqueous solution of at least one metallic component; (b) forming a colloid of organo-metallic and inorganic-metallic components from said solution; and (c) extracting at least some of the metallic colloidal components from the aqueous solution using a suitable hydrocarbon medium under controlled PH, temperature and time.
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[0001] This application claims priority under 35 U.S.C. §119 to U.S. Provisional Patent Application Ser. No. 60 / 662,421, filed Mar. 1, 2005, and titled “A Liquid Hydrocarbon Based Fuel Additive For Enhancing Combustion Efficiency And Decreasing Emissions From An Internal Combustion Engine, Heating Chamber Or Jet Engine And Method Of Making Same.”FIELD OF THE INVENTION

[0002] The present invention relates to improved combustion of fuels in internal combustion engines, heating chambers and jet engines.BACKGROUND

[0003] Burning a fossil fuel in an internal combustion engine, jet engine or heating furnace presents a hazard to the ecosystem of the world due to the emissions of hazardous carbon monoxide, oxides of nitrogen, oxides of sulfur and incompletely burned fossil fuels. Sulfur dioxide and oxides of nitrogen are major components of acid rain. Acid rain is toxic to both animals and plants. The burning of carbon based fuels also releases carbon diox...

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[0076]Without limiting the invention to specific theories of operation or to the specific embodiments disclosed herein, the inventors' preferred embodiments, as well as the inventors' present understanding of the theory of operation, will now be described.

[0077]With respect to the active moiety of the fuel additive, it is the inventors' belief that the aqueous colloid, such as a silica colloid, is a processing aide and a carrier to the combustion chamber wall such that adhesion occurs through an electrostatic charge on the palladium silicate, palladium silicide and palladium acetate bound to the silica colloid of the invention. The palladium silicate colloid complex is moderately soluble in kerosene and soluble in pH 4.35 aqueous (partition coefficient ˜1 / 10). PdO is insoluble in aqueous at pH 4.35 and kerosene. Palladium (II) acetate is insoluble in water and at least substantially insoluble in organic, but is soluble in acetic acid.

[0078]In the practice of the preferred method of ...