Abstract:
Uniform droplets of a liquid are produced by positioning the end of a capillary tube in the throat of a venturi. Gas flowing through the venturi detaches droplets from the end of the capillary tube without requiring high volume gas flow or excessively high velocity of the droplets.
Abstract:
A drive aggregate is operated independently from the availability of external air, by using a fuel being composed of a blend of hydrocarbons and metal, e.g. lithium hydrides in a pasty, pumpable, i.e., fluidized, condition, and a metal chlorate, e.g., lithium chlorate or metal perchlorate is used as an oxidizer, having been rendered fluid in a high concentration by the addition of water so that the oxidizer, when decomposing, yields oxygen which combines with hydrogen released from the fuel. Reaction products remain, or are pumped into the tanks or into the ambient sea.
Abstract:
Uniform droplets of a bead-forming liquid are produced by positioning the end of a capillary tube in the throat of a venturi. An immiscible fluid flowing through the venturi detaches the droplets from the end of the capillary tube to produce uniform, spherical droplets which harden into spheroidal beads which have a uniform size.
Abstract:
The tendency of nitromethane to detonate when used as a fuel in an internal combustion engine surprisingly has been found to be reduced by adding to the fuel a detonation reducing amount of an additive selected from the group consisting of nitroethane, 2-nitropropane, and mixtures thereof. Nitromethane fuel compositions having a reduced tendency to detonate are also provided.
Abstract:
A novel fuel composition contains ethanol or gasohol plus, as a wear-inhibiting additive, a reaction product of one mole of itaconic acid and two moles of N-mono-oleyl-1,3-diaminopropane.
Abstract:
A method is disclosed for treating sewage in which the combustible components of the sewage are separated from the sewage and utilized as a primary fuel. Scum is collected, preferably by skimming, from screened sewage. This scum comprises oils, greases, fats, water and intermixed solid material. The collected scum is then transferred to a separation tank. The scum is maintained within the tank in a quiescent and substantially nonagitated state for at least twelve hours, during which the combustible oils, greases, fats and the like are rendered separable from the other components of the scum. The scum is then conveyed from the tank to a processing unit where the fats, oils, greases and the like are separated from the water and solid material remaining in the scum. The resulting product is a combustible product and can be used as a primary fuel.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a diesel fuel based on methanol and containing an additive for improving cetane number comprising a methanol-soluble polyoxyalkylene compound.
Abstract:
A motor fuel composition is prepared containing methanol, alkyl-substituted benzene, heptane and chlorinated benzene. The composition may be used as a motor fuel, or may be blended with a conventional gasoline as an extender and/or to increase the octane number of the latter.