Coal Water Slurry + Diesel Engines 1

[ehavens]

Does anyone have more information about using a coal water slurry in low-speed diesel engines? Also, are there any commercial producers of CWS in America?

Thank you for your time.

 

[GregLocock]

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Greg Locock


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[unclesyd]

Here are two links to some papers dealing with CWS fuel for internal combustion engines. There are a couple of good references in the papers.

http://www.osti.gov/bridge/servlets/purl/10137691-JXPjGX/10137691.pdf

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1993STIN...9436348W

 

[chicopee]

You may want to do some research on related work that was done in Germany which I believe may have been conducted in the early part of the 20th century.

 

[rinowatch]

Why couldn't a Coal Water Slurry engine generate electricity using both mechanical/piston energy AND heat for a steam engine?

 

Why couldn't a Coal Water Slurry engine generate electricity using both mechanical/piston energy AND heat for a steam engine?

 

[MJCronin]

This early researcher, Rudolph Diesel, originally wanted his engine to run on coal dust. (he settled for peanut oil)

The Russians tried for many, many years to get diesel engines to operate on coal sludges and slurries.

Rino...... you seem to have an almost uncanny grasp of the obvious.

Coal-water mixtures simply do not want to ignite, very well

 

[L4189]

I seem to remember one of the components is the ash from burning coal in a boiler is either silicon carbide or aluminum oxide either one is used in sand paper and if it gets into a diesel it make short work of it. Now if you go through the trouble to get the contaminants out of the coal you might as well go all the way with the Fischer Tropsch process and make synthetic diesel.