GB2422841A - Fuel mousse/emulsion - Google Patents

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GB2422841A
GB2422841A GB0524237A GB0524237A GB2422841A GB 2422841 A GB2422841 A GB 2422841A GB 0524237 A GB0524237 A GB 0524237A GB 0524237 A GB0524237 A GB 0524237A GB 2422841 A GB2422841 A GB 2422841A
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    • C10LFUELS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; NATURAL GAS; SYNTHETIC NATURAL GAS OBTAINED BY PROCESSES NOT COVERED BY SUBCLASSES C10G, C10K; LIQUEFIED PETROLEUM GAS; ADDING MATERIALS TO FUELS OR FIRES TO REDUCE SMOKE OR UNDESIRABLE DEPOSITS OR TO FACILITATE SOOT REMOVAL; FIRELIGHTERS
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Abstract

A stable fuel mousse/emulsion comprises a fuel component, preferably biofuel, and preferably an oxidant, water and a surfactant. The surfactant may be starch. The mousse may be used in an IC engine. In use, the mousse is injected into an IC engine cylinder, and on compression, the fuel bubbles compress, heat up, and burst, releasing fuel into the oxidant. The fuel is then ignited. Also disclosed are a means of transport, a means of fuel storage, a means of fuel production, a means of fuel enrichment, a means of improving the thermodynamic efficiency of an engine, and an electrolysis fuel-oxidant pipeline.

Description

fl 2422841 Fuel System -9 This invention relates to a fuel system with a
safe, clean and versatile method for producing, enriching, transporting, storing, dispensing detonating and combusting LPG- propellant based liquid bio-fuel mousse hybrids.
With the prospect of limited future availability and rising cost of conventional fossil fuel oils, the low calorific value and octane of biofuels, lowered C02 and particulate emission requirements, hazardous and challenging hydrogen storage technology and the drive for greater fuel economy in existing internal combustion IC engines, more versatile vehicle fuel systems will be required.
Vehicle IC engine trends have also been evolving to run at higher speeds with shorter strokes, utilising new ceramic materials for efficient "leanburn" diesels, to take full advantage of rapidly-combusting light fuel oils of lower carbon chain length which can be easily pumped or transported'. Faster-running on short chain carbon LPG including methane also benefits from this, but suffers from increased engine wear over time.
Large engines running on heavy long chain fuel oil to include marine diesels require a high octane fuel to slow down' combustion rates, volatility and processing low-grade fuels can also include cracking (reforming) the heated fuel into shorter carbon chain constituents. Medium speed marine diesel engines have also got faster, increasing engine stresses and wear.
To overcome these problems, existing and future vehicle IC engines require to run on a range of compatible fuels containing increasingly bio- derived sources, to include alcohol, water, hydrogen and straight vegetable oil SVO without requiring dual fuel switch-over systems for engine startup and shutdown.
Because of the lower energy density available in bio-fuels, including bioLNG, liquefied natural gas containing mostly methane as derived from biodigestors and landfill, heat and power CHP Solutions combined with biofuel mousse hybrids and oxy-hydrogen enrichment can provide a flexible way forward.
The fuel system has multiple requirements and aspects therefore:- safety as with tyre repair and fire extinguisher mousses, foam encapsulation stored in compressed colloidal form will resist leakages by foaming on contact with ambient air at ntp and resist detonation by presenting a watery foam shell firewall' to resist hot mixing with the ambient air oxidant, cleanliness the use of exhaust moisture in centrifugal exhaust filters to spin-out' the particulate ashes can reduce this aspect of pollution along with freedom from waxing persisting in the jets either from vegetable oil or in cold weather, versatility a novel hybrid fuel that can run in an IC engine designed to run on LPG or liquid fuel oil without modification or leaving deposits in fuel injectors, enrichment fuel enriching as obtained by catalytic exhaust heat driven fuel reforming to produce hydrogen on demand thus avoiding the H2 storage bottleneck, similarly fuel pipeline electrolysis, chemical or particulate additions to include starch macro-molecules in a pressurised emulsive suspension or gel colloid with water can increase its' energy density to levels comparable with light fuel oil with the pressurised colloid also acting as an effective pressurised gas absorber to dissolve or emulsify the LPG, transportation the fuel injector pump provides metered quantities or shots of pressurised fuel as colloid which expand in the individual cylinder fuel feed pipes during injection as the injectors needle valves open, partially inflating the gas-enriched mousse whilst acting as a semi-closed venturi tube downstream n from the pump. The expanding mousse draws the LPG bubbles in suspension along the pipeline, transporting the liquid fuel base enrichers along with it whilst reducing the viscosity of the fuel base propellate which may contain viscous flow- resisting water-based gels which would under normal circumstances in existing engines be difficult to pump, storage and production the liquid bio-fuel propellate can be added and compressed by a gas propellant from a bulk gas strore on demand as storing and producing PG fuel in liquid bulk form requires substantial gas chilling and compressing facilities and can be hazardous, expensive and subject to leaks. Bulk storage in foam-containing blimps at a slight ntp overpressure is inexpensive and safer and safer hydrogen storage obtained from solar-powered electrolysis is provided by the same means. Oxy-hydrogen stores can be combined or kept separate depending on the durability of the fuel mousse in its foam phase, the mousse forming a semi-conductor. Mousse production is kept under a back pressure to form the colloid in a dual electrolysis pipeline, fuel mousse hybrids fuels consisting of an propellate emulsion with water contains a surfactant to include starch which is part-soluble in fuel oil, SVO, alcohol and water.
Pressurizing the emulsion at a few atmospheres with LNG propellant causes the colloid to form on mixing-up the contents. A method of LNG storage in emulsive pre-mixed colloidal form to include bio-ethanol, however is required and described, dispensing a pressurised fuel colloid can be exposed to air briefly at ntp without it exploding into foam billows which aids its dispensing and improves safety compared with LPG forecourt browsers, detonating foam re-compression in the cylinders to collapse into the oxidant In approaching engine TDC, combustion the low calorific value CV and Octane number of bio-methane can be compensated by adding alcohol, hydrogen, giant particulate molecules such as starch, peat and enriching the air to provide safe oxy-hydrogen oxidant- fuel enrichment, and CHP applications by adding water to the fuel as an emulsion to lower NOX emissions mean exhaust temperatures and make combustion slower and cooler, the fuel carries its own water coolant with it which serves several purposes; to convey heat as superheated exhaust steam to an exhaust turbine, gas mass enhancement to couple said turbine with said expander via said IC engine, improved particulate emission scrubbing from the moist exhaust via centrifugal filters, enabling all- alloy air-cooled block and head diesel engines to be realized to save weight.
Fuel systems featuring CHP enhancements including centrifugal exhaust filters and turbo inter-coolers such as those described herein are known, as are the STIG and CHENG cycles for adding water retrospectively to an engines exhaust. Humid air motors are also known. These developments are concerned with mechanistic' engine improvements rather than modifications to the fuel'.
According to the present invention there is provided:- a fuel system comprising a bio-fuel mousse hybrid, an oxidant mousse, a means of homogenising and injecting the compressed fuel-oxidant charge, a means of charge detonation, a fuel emulsion, an oxidant emulsion, an emulsive fuel colloid, a fuel gel, an oxidant gel, a means of hybrid fuel pipeline transport, a safe means of fuel storage, an inexpensive means of fuel production, a means of fuel enrichment, a means of improving the engines thermodynamic efficiency through the use of CHP and a fuel- oxidant n electrolysis pipeline.
The invention will now be described solely by way of examples and with reference to the accompanying drawings in which: Figure 1 shows detonation of fuel-oxidant mousses in the gas phase creating optimum homogonized charge controlled ignition, Figure 2 shows the auto-ignition of the compressed charge Al, Figure 3 shows the de-compressed charge subsequent to injection at the onset of the engine compression stroke, Figure 4 shows fuel-oxidant mousse stores, pipeline enriching and transportation during its liquid phase prior to injection in partial decompression, Figure 5 shows the development of safe in-store' electrolysis into separated fuel-oxidant stores, Figure 6 shows in fuel system overview the production of the bio-ethanol emulsive fuel base propellate, suitable for adding to pressurised LPG propellant stores, Figure 7 shows the fuel system overview with CHP, compressor, electrolysis pipeline and a single fuel store, Figure 8 shows low- pressure (L)PG fuel-oxidant mousses in storage blimps for a fixed, solar- powered re-fueling installation.
In figure 1, a fuel mousse 1 is shown injected into an IC engine cylinder 2 in it's foam phase during detonation 3. As the advancing piston 2 compresses the foam-encapsulated fuel-oxidant towards TDC, some of the fuel bubbles of the mousse compress and heat up prior to bursting 4 and releasing their contents into the oxidant which can also be a mousse 5 or simply inlet air. The advancing thermodynamic shock causes auto-ignition Al in a diesel engine which can be also be controlled by a spark 3 as a CAl engine. The resulting fuel-air mix is optimally' homogenized, fulfilling the requirements of an homogenised charge controlled ignition engine HCCI and allowing disparate fuel hybrids to be combined as described. Oxygen and hydrogen bubbles are also shown coming out of solution showing partially inflated mousse 6, 7. The addition of longchain surfactants to include detergents, decanol, "Visceau" determines bubble growth, cell wall-thickness, bursting point and enrichment.
Figures 2 and 3 describe in reverse order the engine fuel-oxidant charges' compression and autoignition in further detail:- In figure 2, an engine cylinder is shown approaching TDC in compression 18 with the homogenized charge comprising fuel 20 and oxidant 19 bubbles and compressed heated inlet air in lighter shading. Auto-ignition is shown 21 occurring at random hot-spots in the charge with some bubbles bursting into each other to create fuel-oxidant mixing 21.
Controlled autoignition can be facilitated for smoother starting and running by the addition of a glow or spark plug 21 but this is optional and not shown directly.
In figure 3, the charge comprising fuel and oxidant mousses are shown 30 along with water vapour-air as darker rings 31 and hydrogen gas enrichers 32 immediately subsequent to injection. Air-oxidant is also shown in partially-encapsulated (mousse) form prior to re-compression by the cylinder.
In figure 4, separate fuel and optional oxidant mousses are compressed as colloids and shown 20, 32 in their liquid phase during storage prior to transportation and injection.
The stores have PG gas propellant 22 stored above a liquid fuel propellate to include bio- diesel 21 and compressed oxygen stored above alcohol in a water solution 32. A safety pressure regulator 26 and filler valve 23 regulate the fuel pipeline pressure to the engines fuel pump 27. The fuel-oxidant injectors 28, 30 are shown separate, but the oxidant injector is omitted in single existing fuel-only injector systems.
Solar-powered fuel-oxidant pipeline electrolysis 33, 25 provides oxyhydrogen Th enrichment of the oxidant-fuel mousses on-demand respectively against a back-pressure in the fuel pipeline 34, the partial expansion of gas inflating the mousse downstream from the fuel pump to assist the liquid bio-fuel propellate transportation to the injectors 29.
Vehicle roof-mounted photovoltaic cells also aid re-charging during daylight hours providing tric]de-charging' fuel electrolysis in-pipeline.
In figure 5, the electrolysis of fuel-oxidant in-pipeline' 7 (ref. figure 4) is developed into a safe in-store' 5 system. A series-cascade electrolysis of fuel and oxidant stores with a centre-tapped low-voltage DC or rectified AC centre-tapped step-down power supply is provided 1, with additional in-pipeline electrolysis provided on-demand 7. The central tubes supplying pressurised colloids from the stores 3, 4 are hollow and conductive forming the electrodes, with the earthed cylinder casings 5 and fuel injector head 6 forming an electrically isolated, centre-tapped ion bridge. The internal stores' walls 5, 11 are insulated from the conductive liquid store contents by cylinder liners to include polythene and or polypropylene to prevent fragmentary electrolysis from producing hazardous oxy-hydrogen in combination in-store. The fuel colloid 5 contains LPG, bioethanol, hydrogen and a surfactant in partial solution and partial emulsive suspension and the oxidant colloid 11 contains oxygen, water and bioethanol and a surfactant also in partial solution and partial emulsive suspension. The selection of electrode materials, conductive fuel doping additives and electrolysis voltages is chosen to include copper for the electrodes and sulphuric acid for the fuel-oxidant colloids.
The addition of alternative conductive fuel-oxidant dopings to include acetic acid, copper napthalate and or "Polyol" 9 is so chosen to avoid the production of chlorine ammonia and other gases than oxy-hydrogen by the electrolysis. The compressed mousse acts as a conductor whilst the partially-decompressed mousse acts as a semi-conductor, safely regulating current flow in-store and in-pipeline. The partially empty stores are safely dispensed (refilled) in two stages: when the colloid becomes nearly exhausted, the gas propellant is run-off, decompressing the propellate contents 11. The liquid biofuel- containing propellate is then added via valve 9, similarly for the water- containing oxidant propellate 11. The stores are then re-pressurised by the addition of LPG from a separate store or gradually by solar-powered electrolysis as described ref. figure 4.
Alternatively, the fuel mousse can be supplied as a refill directly in one shot' as a pressurised emulsive gel-collojd 9, which advantageously can be safely exposed to air at ntp for brief moments during dispensing for example via a conventional browser by existing forecourt equipment.
In figure 6, the hybrid fuel production 41 is described in overview with bio-ethanol solution 34 produced from a fermenting wort 42 in a multistage gravity-fed tower via solar-powered distillation 33 and the addition of fuel oil, SVO 43 and heated crushed starch with surfactant 37, sworl mixed 38 to form the propellate fuel emulsion.
Producer gas, consisting mostly of C02 and methane in equal measures, is also collected from the fermentation process 44 under gravity-assisted pressurization and one-way flow valves 45 and the C02 is sequestrated by KOH towers or "C02-wash" 39. The NPG or bio-gas is pressurized by gravityassisted pumping at several atmospheres with chilling 46 to charge up a conventional LPG cylinder 40. The fuel emulsion is pressurised by adding said chilled liquid bio-gas through further mixing and bubbling 47 forming the final hybrid bulk fuel store 41. Through its' gas absorber function, the LPG dissolves partially in the emulsive fuel forming a colloid similar to acetone as added to an acetylene gas store.
In figure 7, the fuel system in overview is described showing the interrelation of systems components, especially the combined heat and power CHP application showing centrifugal exhaust water filters 9 driving a generator 6. Inlet air enters a compressor 1 which is driven by an expander turbine 3 coupled to the inlet compressor 2 in the hot expanding exhaust forming a turbo inter-cooler. Additional external hot expanding engine air providing cooling is drawn through an engine cowling 5. Condensed exhaust water vapour 4 is recovered and stored under ntp 14. This water is filtered for particulates and pumped 13 for re-cycling in the electrolysis pipeline 12. Oxy-hydrogen enriched n water is mixed with the pressurised fuel colloid 10, 11 and injected into the engine via the fuel pump 19. The cylinder head containing the injectors is shown 15 below the cylinder block 2. The generator 6 can switch its output between the electrolysis pipeline and a hybrid electric drive train 7, 18 to provide power to the wheels on demand for short periods of acceleration with the pipelines storing the products of electrolysis enrichment under pressurised colloid for the time taken for fuel pipeline throughput lag to replace the electric battery component in a hybrid drive vehicle. A single fuel store is shown in this example 10,11 with separated dual inpipeline' oxy-hydrogen electrolysis 12 in comparison with figures 4 and 5.
In figure 8, multiple low pressure bulk gas storage blimps are shown 30, 31, 38 which can contain fuel (hydrogen, PG, surfactant, alcohol) and oxidant (02, water, surfactant, alcohol) in mousse form in their inflated' foam phase. A solar-powered 36 pump 34 provides pressurised fuel mousse injection via pressurised electrolysis pipelines 40 for exchange fuel and or oxidant stores on demand 38 using a bank of recyclable LPG cylinders. The blimps are contained in a hanger 36 for protection against wind, solar fabric degradation and solar heating. Solar-powered in-pipeline' pressurised electrolysis of water 32 and or bio-fuel stores 35, 37 provide a renewable supply of fuel and oxidant mousses with the collapsed foam in its liquid phase 41 being drained off for regeneration into pressurised, re-injected fresh mousse via said electrolysis pipelines 37, 40. The bulk gas stores are shown as blimps for minimal structural expense but also can also include conventional municipal gasometer stores.

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  1. Claims I.A fuel system comprising:-, a bio-fuel mousse hybrid, an oxidant
    mousse, a means of homogenising and injecting the compressed fuel-oxidant charge, a means of charge detonation, a fuel emulsion, an oxidant emulsion, an emulsive fuel colloid, a fuel gel, an oxidant gel, a means of hybrid fuel pipeline transport, a safe means of fuel storage, an inexpensive means of fuel production, a means of fuel enrichment, a means of improving the engines thermodynamic efficiency and cooling through the use of water and CHP, an electrolysis fuel-oxidant pipeline.
  2. 2.A fuel system as claimed in claim 1 wherein a bio-fuel mouse hybrid has multiple component fuels combined in a colloid or emulsion to include water.
  3. 3.A fuel system as claimed in claim 1 wherein a bio-fuel mousse hybrid has multiple component fuels and oxidants combined in multiple pressurised colloidal propellates or emulsions to include LPG as the propellant.
  4. 4.A fuel system as claimed in claim 1 wherein a means of homogenising and injecting the compressed fuel-oxidant charge is achieved through the partial encapsulation of fuels and oxidants in mousses which resist autoignition and detonation and thereby increase the fuels octane.
  5. 5.A fuel system as claimed in claim 1 containing a fuel emulsion which allows the homogenised injection and combination of different liquid fuels to include fuel oil, straight vegetable oil, alcohol, starch macromolecules, detergents, other surfactants and water.
  6. 6.A fuel system as claimed in claim 1 wherein a fuel gel additive to include starch water SVO alcohol and Visceau traps fuel gas and hydrogen within the colloid acting as an absorber for safe dispensing under ntp.
    7.A fuel system as claimed in claim 1 wherein an oxidant gel additive to include starch, water alcohol and or Visceau traps oxidant gas or oxygen within the pressurised watery colloid acting as an absorber of gas on dispensing and heat on exhaust for safe dispensing under ntp.
    .A fuel system as claimed in claim 1 wherein a means of hybrid fuel pipeline transport is provided by the action of partially decompressing pressurised hybrid fuel and or oxidant colloids expanding in the semiclosed fuel pipes during individual cylinder fuel injection drawing the liquid and viscous fuel components along downstream from the fuel injector pump to assist the transport of viscous fuel to the injectors effectively.
    9.A fuel system as claimed in claim 1 wherein a safe means of fuel storage is provided to include sustainable separated fuel and oxidant mousses in low pressure gas blimps or gasometers at above ntp with the collapsed foam in its liquid phase being drained- off for pressurized re-cycling and leaks prevented by protective foaming.
    lb A fuel system as claimed in claim 1 wherein an inexpensive means of said hybrid fuel production is provided to include the combined action of gravity-assisted fennentation towers, solar-powered distillation, pressurized wort and producer gas recovery, C02 sequestration, bio-gas pressurization and liquefaction, emulsification with SVO and water, fuel pressurisation of said emulsion with said gas.
    11.A fuel system as claimed in claim 1 wherein a means of fuel enrichment is provided by mixing its components with giant molecule particulates to include starch, wort sediments, peat, fine corn flour, finely ground coal dust, colloid mixing, emulsive fuel hybrids, combining fuel and mousses, oxy-hydrogen mousse enrichers, adding pressurised aliphatic gases to watery bio-fuels with detergent and alcohols acting as the emulsifiers and surfactants.
    12. A fuel system as claimed in claim 1 wherein a means of improving the engines thermodynamic efficiency NOX and particulate emmissions and cooling through the use of water and CHP is provided by a diesel engine fitted with a turbo inter-cooler which is in turn driven by the moist exhaust waste heat which provides gas mass enhancement which then transfers the heat thus recovered more efficiently from the engine to a centrifugal expander condenser, trapping exhaust particulates by spinning them out in the recovered exhaust moisture.
    13. A fuel system as claimed in claim I wherein a means of improving the engines thermodynamic efficiency and cooling through the use of water and CHP is provided to include converting the engine exhausts' waste heat into electricity with an expander- driven generator and an on-demand throttle-driven power controller switching the power so generated between a hybrid drive system and dual in-pipeline electrolysis.
    l4.A fuel system as claimed in claim I comprising a fuel-oxidant electrolysis pipeline which provides a means storing and liberating fuel energy on throttle demand is provided consisting of hollow copper or any suitable conductive fuel and oxidant pipelines insulated from each other electrically but connected fluidically via a conductive earthed "ion bridge" which allows restricted ion exchange within the fuel and oxidant but prevents oxy-hydrogen colloidal mixing.
    15. A fuel system as claimed in claim I Comprising a fuel-oxidant electrolysis dual pipeline which provides pressurized electrolysis of electrolytic fuel and oxidant propellates thus providing oxy-hydrogen gas enrichment of said propellates in-pipeline prior to mixing at or close to the point of the engines fuel and oxidant injection.
    Amendments to the claims have been filed as follows Claims 1. A gas enrichment technique for a bio-fuel wherein:- the hydrogen enrichment of a fuel emulsions water-insoluble part as an aerosol product including concentrated alcohol surfactant kerosine and vegetable oil is provided in partial solution within an LPG aerosol propellant as produced by electrolysis a gas store or catalytic fuel reforming, and the oxygen enrichment of a fuel emulsions water-soluble part as an aerosol product including water dilute alcohol and surfactant is provided in partial solution with an oxygen gas propellant as produced by electrolysis or a gas store, with mixing, and a means of production.
    2. A gas enrichment technique for a bio-fuel as claimed in claim 1 wherein a means of producing stable pre and or post gas propellant- enriched fuel and oxidant emulsions by setting them in a combined gel or separate gels on cooling is provided.
    3. A gas enrichment technique for a bio-fuel as wherein the production means claimed in claim 1 include a CHP application to recover energy from the exhaust heat to drive the fuel electrolysis.
    4. a gas enrichment technique for a bio-fuel wherein a means of production as claimed in claim 1 includes fuel hydrogenation and oxygenation from a pressurised hydrogen fuel gas store and a pressurised oxygen oxidant gas store coupled to a fuel store and an oxidant store with mixing.
    5. A means of producing stable gas propellant-enriched fuel and oxidant emulsion products as claimed in claim 2 comprising a surfactant to create the emulsions on mixing with agitation and a starch derived gel to set the emulsions on gentle cooling and then chilling to below 0 deg C. S (4 6. A means of production in a gas enriched bio-fuel as claimed in claim 1 wherein; an electrically-conductive doping to include PU foam Polyol copper napthalate copper ions from anode sludge acetic acid or any other conductive polar molecules with a lower electro-negativity lower than that of the electrodes is added to render said fuel emulsion conductive to electricity, is included.
  7. 7. a bio-fuel as claimed in claim 1 wherein the mixed fuel emulsion comprises fuel oil, a surfactant and pure alcohol as product with LPG and pressurised H2 propellant producing an aerosol vapour with constant composition forming a ternary azeotrope.
  8. 8. a pre-mixed oxidant emulsion as claimed in claim 1 wherein the emulsion comprises water, a surfactant, ethanol solution, methanol solution, fuel oil and pressurised 02 in binary or ternary azeotrope constant composition vapour product form.
  9. 9. A CHP application as claimed in claim 3 wherein a means of improved thermodynamic coupling of the expander turbine with the engines waste exhaust heat, a means of removing the moist exhaust and particulates from the exhaust and a means of cooling the expanders condenser walls by centrifugal filter action arc provided.
  10. 10. An exhaust heat-driven CHP application as claimed in claim 3 wherein the expander turbines are mechanically-coupled to electricity generators.
  11. 11. A CHP-driven electrolysis as claimed in claim 3 wherein generators as claimed in claim 12 provide electrical power which can be switched between the fuel-oxidant electrolysis and the drive wheels via a hybrid drive system. Is
  12. 12. An in-pipeline electrolysis as claimed in claim 1 wherein the fuel line is divided into two extended differentially pressurised pipeline sections of different volumes via one-way flow valves the inner hollow surfaces of which are coated with any relatively electronegative conductive material to include copper as electrodes.
  13. 13, An in-store electrolysis as claimed in claim 1 wherein the dual fuel and oxidant in differentially-pressurised stores have insulated inner walls with charged conductive central pipeline electrodes collecting fuel and oxidant from the lower part of the pressurised liquid fuel stores comprising mixed oxidant tn-state and bi-state products.
  14. 14.An in-store electrolysis as claimed in claim 1 wherein an ion bridge cross- connecting the stores completes the conductive circuit consisting of; a reverse osmosis filter as a store partition, an interconnecting tube with pressure regulating flow valves, the engines fuel-oxidant emulsion injector mixing head connected to the electricity supplies centre-tap.
  15. 15.A fuel store as claimed in claim 1 comprising a bio-fuel colloid which is provided in de-pressurised form for periodic dispensing or exchange with additional compressed gas cylinders providing an alternative means of pressurised fuel enrichment to electrolysis.
  16. I 6.An oxidant store as claimed in claim 1 comprising an oxidant colloid which is provided in de-pressurised form for periodic dispensing or exchange with additional compressed gas cylinders providing an alternative means of oxidant enrichment to electrolysis.
  17. 17.A method of mixing a pre-mixed emulsion in store as claimed in claim 1 that includes a rotating stirrer armature suspended in-store and excited by a rotating magnetic field applied externally through the store walls by a static stator.
    I 8.A means of gas enriched bio-fuel production as claimed in claim 1 comprising; alcohol from a multi-stage pressurized biomass continuous fermentation tower producing 10 % v-v dilute alcohol in wort, a wort filter and settling tank, a solar-powered still to produce 95 % v-v concentrated alcohol from said wort, a refrigeration plant to produce LPG and methane combined production (CH4) from pressurized producer gas carbon sequestration and NPG well or piped gas by C4H1O, C3H8 and C02 liquefaction at 0, -42 and -44 C b.p. (at ntp) respectively, hydrogen gas production from wort electrolysis, oxygen gas production from wort electrolysis, a sworl mixing chamber for producing fuel emulsions with dehydrated concentrated alcohol 100 % v-v, a further sworl chamber for mixing said fuel emulsion with a gel with a stirrer and chiller, stores containing kerosene, straight vegetable oil, filtered wort, the gel, enricher gasses and surfactants.
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