Combined Cycle Engines

In one of my old engineering books, there is described a way to augment the power of an internal combustion powerplant with a waste heat steam generator that absorbs heat from the water jacket and the exhaust. I have come to find that this principle is rather old, and works well IF implemented properly. I […]

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Gasoline Engines Running on Diesel?

[q]Anyone here know of any recent experiments with converting gasoline engined vehicles to run on diesel fuel? I’m thinking seriously of doing this with my ’91 Toyota pickup. It has the 22RE (electronic fuel injection) engine, 9:1 compression. Some older tractors had this ability – what is done is that there are two fuel tanks, […]

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