Ionized Metal Liquid Combustion Catalyst for Engine Efficiency
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional combustion catalysts, such as alkali metal compounds, are unstable at room temperature and difficult to manage in a liquid state, leading to reduced combustion efficiency and thermal efficiency in combustion engines, particularly when using fossil fuels like coal, due to the formation of sticking materials and heat loss from melted ash.
Innovation Solution
A liquid combustion catalyst composition is developed using ionized metal compounds like Mg, Ca, Mn, and Zn dissolved in a soluble liquid, often nitric acid or ammonia water, with optional surfactants like solbitol and glycerine, and boron or alkali metal compounds, which form stable complexes to promote chemical thermal equilibrium and reduce fuel consumption, while controlling sludge and fouling generation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If alkali metal compounds are used as combustion catalysts to promote combustion at high temperature, then combustion efficiency is improved, but the compounds become unstable and difficult to manage at room temperature
Solution Approach 1:
The patent changes the physical state parameter of the combustion catalyst from solid to liquid by using ionic liquids. This allows the catalyst to maintain stability at room temperature while still achieving effective combustion promotion at high temperatures. The ionic liquid medium provides thermal stability and manageable viscosity at ambient conditions.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a composite system by combining alkali metal compounds with ionic liquid carriers. This composite approach allows the catalyst to benefit from both the high-temperature combustion promotion capability of alkali metals and the room-temperature stability and ease of handling provided by the ionic liquid matrix.
2Productivity
If combustion speed is increased to improve thermal efficiency, then thermal efficiency is improved, but inorganic matter melts and causes heat loss and engine obstruction
Solution Approach 1:
The ionic liquid acts as an intermediary substance that modifies the combustion process. It facilitates more complete and controlled combustion reactions, allowing higher combustion speeds while simultaneously managing the thermal conditions to prevent inorganic matter from melting and forming harmful deposits.
Solution Approach 2:
The ionic liquid catalyst system promotes accelerated oxidation reactions that increase combustion efficiency. This allows the combustion process to proceed more completely and at higher rates without necessarily requiring extreme temperatures that would melt ash, as the catalytic action lowers the activation energy barrier.
3Productivity
If alkali oxide is used to provide oxygen for combustion, then combustion promotion is achieved, but it is unstable at room temperature and difficult to exist in liquid state
Solution Approach 1:
The ionic liquid serves as an intermediary carrier that stabilizes oxygen-providing compounds at room temperature. Instead of using pure alkali oxides which are unstable and difficult to handle, the ionic liquid medium allows these compounds to be dissolved and handled in a stable liquid state while still providing oxygen for combustion promotion.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes the physical state and stability parameters by dissolving oxygen-providing compounds in ionic liquids. This transformation allows the system to maintain liquid state stability at room temperature while preserving the oxygen-release capability needed for combustion promotion at elevated temperatures.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
The composition enhances combustion efficiency and thermal efficiency by maintaining a stable liquid state, reducing fuel usage, minimizing sticking material formation, and improving productivity by promoting oxidation reactions and heat transfer, even at room temperature, thus optimizing combustion performance.
Implementation Method 1
The composition enhances combustion efficiency and thermal efficiency by maintaining a stable liquid state, reducing fuel usage, minimizing sticking material formation, and improving productivity by promoting oxidation reactions and heat transfer
Implementation Method 2
The composition enhances combustion efficiency and thermal efficiency by maintaining a stable liquid state, reducing fuel usage, minimizing sticking material formation, and improving productivity by promoting oxidation reactions and heat transfer
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AI summary
Provided is a liquid combustion catalyst composition comprising an ionized metal compound, and more particularly, to a liquid combustion catalyst composition comprising an ionized metal compound, in which the ionic metal compound is added to fuel burning in a combustion engine to quickly achieve a chemical thermal equilibrium condition required for the combustion of fuel such as hydrocarbon fuel, fossil fuel and biomass, and to optimize the amount of air which contains oxygen required for the equilibrium condition in terms of chemical equivalence, thereby improving thermal efficiency and the efficiency of the combustion engine so that fuel consumption for a heat source can be reduced, and optimizing the combustion performed by the combustion device by controlling the generation of sludge, clinker and fouling which may be generated due to an inorganic substance so that a combustion rate per unit area and the productivity of the combustion device can be improved. Provided is a liquid combustion catalyst composition comprising an ionized metal compound or a complex ionic combustion catalyst composition which comprises an ionized metal compound and which has a hydrate form dried at 100° C. or less, wherein the composition is characterized in that one or more metal compounds selected from Mg, Ca, Mn, and Zn are dissolved in nitric acid or ammonia water to form one or more metal ions selected from Mg, Ca, Mn, and Zn.