DUAL COMBUSTION THERMAL HYBRID ENGINE

A careful and conservative analysis shows that an engine system consisting of an internal combustion engine that is operated fuel rich, coupled with an exhaust afterburner, a steam boiler, and a steam engine, will propel an automobile with half the fuel consumption of the present internal combustion engine equipped with emission controls. The emission level of the new combination will meet the 1980 goals. This improved emissions performance is the consequence of the low NOx productoin in the richly carbureted internal combustion engine and the full consumption of combustible pollutants in the afterburner.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Proceedings of 12th Intersoc Energy Convers Engineering Conterende, August 28-September 2, 1977.
• Corporate Authors:

  American Nuclear Society

  Oak and Catherine Streets
  La Grange Park, IL  United States  60525
• Authors:
  • Ridgway, S L
• Publication Date: 1977

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: p. 489-492
• Serial:
  • Volume: 1

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Afterburners; Boilers; Energy; Exhaust gases; Fuel consumption; Internal combustion engines; Pollutants; Steam engines; Vehicle power plants
• Uncontrolled Terms: Hybrids
• Old TRIS Terms: Automobile engines; Emission rates
• Subject Areas: Energy; Highways; Safety and Human Factors; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00178083
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Engineering Index
• Report/Paper Numbers: Paper 779079 Proceeding
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 12 1978 12:00AM