Lorentz Force Fuel Ionization for Rapid Combustion
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional fuel injection systems in engines face challenges in achieving efficient and rapid combustion, particularly in diesel engines, which result in higher nitrogen-based emissions and particulate matter contributing to environmental and health issues.
Innovation Solution
The use of Lorentz forces and Lorentz-assisted corona discharges to ionize fuel and oxidant particles, accelerating them into the combustion chamber to initiate and complete combustion more quickly, thereby enhancing combustion efficiency and reducing emissions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If conventional fuel injection systems are used to deliver metered fuel to combustion chamber, then fuel delivery function is achieved, but combustion efficiency is insufficient and nitrogen-based emissions increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces the conventional mechanical fuel injection system with an electromagnetic field-based ionization and acceleration system. Electromagnetic fields ionize fuel molecules and accelerate ions to high velocities, creating a plasma jet that initiates rapid combustion. This substitution eliminates the need for mechanical injectors and enables much faster combustion rates, thereby improving combustion efficiency and reducing nitrogen-based emissions.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent fundamentally changes the state of fuel from neutral molecules to ionized plasma particles. By applying strong electromagnetic fields, fuel molecules are ionized and accelerated to velocities far exceeding conventional injection speeds. This parameter change in fuel state and velocity enables rapid combustion completion before nitrogen-based emissions can form, resolving the contradiction between combustion efficiency and emissions.
2Quantity of substance
If fuel is dispersed through small orifices in conventional injectors, then fuel dispersion is achieved, but combustion completion time is extended
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces mechanical dispersion through small orifices with electromagnetic field-based ionization and acceleration. Instead of forcing fuel through physical restrictors, the system uses electromagnetic fields to ionize fuel molecules and accelerate them to high velocities, creating a dispersed plasma jet that mixes rapidly with air and combusts almost instantaneously, dramatically reducing combustion completion time.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent employs periodic pulsing of electromagnetic fields to create repeated ionization and acceleration cycles. This periodic action ensures continuous fuel ionization and acceleration, maintaining high-velocity plasma jet formation that achieves rapid and complete fuel dispersion and combustion, minimizing the time required for combustion completion.
3Use of energy by moving object
If diesel engines operate with compression heated air and direct fuel injection, then fuel efficiency is improved, but nitrogen-based emissions and particulate matter are produced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent changes the fundamental parameters of fuel delivery by ionizing fuel molecules and accelerating them to high velocities through electromagnetic fields. This creates a plasma state that combusts extremely rapidly, allowing complete combustion before particulate matter can form. The high-velocity ionized fuel injection maintains the energy efficiency benefits of direct injection while eliminating harmful emissions through accelerated combustion kinetics.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent effectively creates conditions for accelerated oxidation by ionizing fuel molecules, which makes them more reactive. The ionized fuel particles oxidize much faster than conventional fuel, enabling complete combustion in a shorter time frame. This accelerated oxidation process improves fuel efficiency while preventing the formation of incomplete combustion products like particulate matter and nitrogen-based emissions.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
This approach enables accelerated and stratified combustion, improving fuel efficiency, reducing emissions, and allowing for faster initiation and completion of the combustion process, while minimizing wear on engine components.
Implementation Method 1
ionizing the fuel by generating an electric field between the electrodes to produce a current of ionized fuel particles
Implementation Method 2
producing a Lorentz force to accelerate the ionized fuel particles into the combustion chamber
Implementation Method 3
ionizing the oxidant by generating an electric field between the electrodes to produce a current of ionized oxidant particles
Implementation Method 4
producing a Lorentz force to accelerate the ionized oxidant particles into the combustion chamber
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AI summary
Methods, systems, and devices are disclosed for injecting a fuel using Lorentz forces. In one aspect, a method to inject a fuel includes distributing a fuel between electrodes configured at a port of a chamber, generating an ion current of ionized fuel particles by applying an electric field between the electrodes to ionize at least some of the fuel, and producing a Lorentz force to accelerate the ionized fuel particles into the chamber. In some implementations of the method, the accelerated ionized fuel particles into the chamber initiate a combustion process with oxidant compounds present in the chamber. In some implementations, the method further comprises applying an electric potential on an antenna electrode interfaced at the port to induce a corona discharge into the chamber, in which the corona discharge ignites the ionized fuel particles within the chamber.