Sunday, March 8, 2009

Budget Allocation

 

Allotted

Preliminaries

2 000

Writing

10

Experimentation

1 200

Consolidation

500

Writing the manuscript

30

Presentation

600

Congress

100

Finalization

50

Total: 4 490

  • These may be subjected to change

Methodology

    The place where will this product be tested is not yet verified.

Background of the study

     Fuel has been one of the most pressing problems in the modern age, especially when it is one of the major drawbacks in the economical crisis happening at this times. Now that the oil supply may be reaching its peak, the world may be forced to find a way substantially to conserve our oil and natural resources. Transportation turns out to be the largest user of oil, and we begin finding ways to minimize transportation needs and to make use of fuel as efficient as possible. Today, one of the most wasteful uses of fuel is traffic congestion. Of course, countries will be forced to solve this problem. Whether its solution is living closer to one's work or using more mass transportation, both become viable ways to address traffic congestion and use more oil efficiently as prices rise.

Solutions have been made to resolve the problem but one may not seem enough and may have further consequences. Simply building additional miles of wider roads no longer works and even fuel-efficient cars may take too long to implement because of high prices but may still use much oil in their systems. If no effective solution may come up, then the inexorable increase of prices may do it for us. At a higher price of gasoline, traffic congestion will diminish.

The developing oil needs of countries as China and India are huge, and now they do everything in their means to secure sources of supply. Higher oil prices will also trigger a massive crisis in oil consumption and as supply of oil decreases; one must use oil as efficient as possible.

This project aims to construct a device that can reduce fuel consumption. It will not focus on the fuel itself but on the air that combines with the fuel for combustion. Unlike other researches that aim to produce a more efficient fuel substitute, this device produces an oxygen-rich mixture that will improve combustion of the fuel.

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Activity

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Consolidation of Research Problems

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Formulation of Research Problem

 

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Gathering of Related Information

  

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Writing of Chapter I

  

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Research Design

  

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Experimentation

  

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Consolidation of Data

     

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Writing the manuscript

         

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Set-up of the Research

The project air-booster will make use of the following materials:

  1. Stainless tube of about 3/4" diameter X 6" length
  2. Copper caps of about 3/4 "diameter X 3/8 thick
  3. Air valve – same as that used in refrigerant tanks
  4. Scotch Brite
  5. Calibrated carburetor jet
  6. Fuel hose 5/16" diameter X 3 ft.
  7. T – joint 5/16" diameter
  8. Hose clamps 5/16" diameter


     

Design (one group)

  1. Planning
  2. Measuring
  3. Cutting
  4. Drilling
  5. Threading
  6. Polishing
  7. Fitting
  8. Calibrating
  9. Testing


     

Sunday, March 1, 2009

Review of Related Literature

As engine demands and loads change, the fuel must maintain a proper air-fuel ratio. It is the proportion of air and fuel, by weight supplied by the engines cylinders for combustion. Fifteen pounds of air to one pound of fuel is an example of the ratio of air to fuel by weight. This is written as 15:1.
The ideal air-fuel ratio is the stoichiometric ratio of 14:7:1. The stoichiometric ratio provides the most efficient combustion, giving the chemically correct mixture of air and fuel.
Automotive fuel is a mixture of many different hydrocarbons. When the hydrocarbons burn in the combustion chamber of an engine, energy is released. The energy moves the piston to create mechanical energy. To move a hydrocarbon, oxtgen atoms are added in the combustion chamber. A spark then ignites the mixture.
A good-quality gasoline should have: Proper volatility which determines how easily the gasoline vaporizes; The correct octane rating, which minimizes detonation; antioxidants which are the chemical compounds which prevent formation of varnish in the fuel systems. Anti-icers added seasonally that minimizes icing in the throttle body or fuel line. Detergents which keep the fuel injectors clean and deposit control agents which prevent or removefuel system deposits.
In a 100 % efficient gasoline engine, all hydrocarbons would burn. Only CO2. H2O and nitrogen would be left to come out of the chamber. Automotive engines are not 100 % efficient. Unburned fuels such as Carbon monoxide and nitrogen oxides are also produced.
Increasing the amount of oxygen in the combustion chamber will burn more of the fuel. Less CO and unburned fuel will go out of the tailpipe. More energy will be released.

Research Proposal

The title of the research is "Fuel Economizer" It is a research that tackles about a device that conserves fuel through adding the amount of air in the combustion chamber of the engine. It is a simple device that adds air into the combustion chamber of the engine, making the fuel burn more efficiently. The prototype has already been done but further adjustments are being made and the researcher targets to finish the prototype in the summer vacation.