KTUU.com:
Over the past few years lots of gadgets have hit the market that inventors claim will conserve fuel and lower emissions.
But now experts said there is something developed right here in Alaska that could save individual drivers and Bush communities on diesel costs while lowering emissions.
From the roads of Southcentral to the power sources of rural Alaska, there is some promising news for those who depend on diesel.
It’s Gregory Monette’s hydro cell emissions reducer. Monette has been working on the invention for a dozen years and it is now being marketed by Marsh Creek.
‘It uses the electrolysis process to break down distilled water into a component of atomic hydrogen and atomic oxygen and those gases rise out of unit into the air intake of any diesel engine. The highly combustible gases in the combustion chamber causes the diesel molecule to burn more completely in the combustion process, thereby deriving more energy out of your fuel,’ Monette said.
That translates into a reduction in fuel consumption and a reduction in emissions. Kris Noonan with the Alaska Energy Authority is interested in tests Monette conducted on the agency’s spare generators bound for rural Alaska - areas dependent on this source of power.
‘With this system, by injecting hydrogen into it, it will reduce emissions out of the exhaust so we get the (nitrous oxide) down, which are good. On the other hand it improves efficiency of the engine, so we’re getting up to a 10% efficiency improvement of fuel consumption on engine itself,’ Noonan said.
Monette said those numbers add up. Full article.
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