anyone experiment with running the motor on Oxy Acetylene ?

[Hemi Rebel]

Acetylene is highly unstable and explosive over 15psi. You would blow your motor to bits

 

[HT413]

... I got a big kick out of pulling you're chain over Alice Cooper..... ht413 LOL

Hahaha, nah, i figured you were drunk or something. But you did make me check those album covers. Sick bastard.

 

[Photon440]

Causes cancer is a new one - where did you find that? Every report I've seen says that it's benign, aside from high concentrations that cause dizziness because of oxygen displacement.

I suppose an atmosphere full of smoke caused by an acetylene flame burning without enough oxygen could be a problem...

 

[sleepar]

Causes cancer is a new one - where did you find that? Every report I've seen says that it's benign, aside from high concentrations that cause dizziness because of oxygen displacement.

I suppose an atmosphere full of smoke caused by an acetylene flame burning without enough oxygen could be a problem...

The smoke from any petrochemical causes cancer

 

[Photon440]

The smoke from any petrochemical causes cancer

No argument with that. But if you see smoke, you're doing it wrong. A proper oxy-acetylene flame, or for that matter oxy-natural gas / MAPP flame doesn't smoke, and the only by products are CO2 and water.

 

[MT_Mopar]

Have you thought about hydrogen? Mixed with O2 you get something like the *** of the spaceshuttle comming out of your mopar...

hehe, that would be cool, hehe... :beavisnbutthead:

J/K

 

[bobtile]

Why?

 

[Photon440]

Have you thought about hydrogen? Mixed with O2 you get something like the *** of the spaceshuttle comming out of your mopar...

hehe, that would be cool, hehe... :beavisnbutthead:

J/K

Hydrogen is a poor fuel for IC engines. Most of the available hydrogen comes from fossil fuels anyway, to there's no cost savings. The attraction is clean air, but at quite a cost. Some buses are available that use hydrogen, or you can order a V-12 BMW 760 IL with an engine that burns either gas or hydrogen. If you can find a fueling station for it. And don't mind that the engine produces about 150 hp. LESS than the gasoline only version.

The real future of hydrogen in transportation isn't by burning it in engines, it's going to be in fuel cells.

 

[62 Dart Convertible]

CUT/PASTE from the article linked in the OP that I think sums it up. (i.e. don't waste your time).-

ACETYLENE ENGINES TODAY

In spite of it all, interest in acetylene as a fuel for engines is still alive, for one reason- you can make it out of coal rather than oil. This is the abstract of a paper Evaluation of acetylene as a spark ignition engine fuel by David L Hilden and Russell F Stebar, published in 1979 in the International Journal of Energy Research, Volume 3, Issue 1, pages 59�71.

"In spite of its known shortcomings as a fuel for spark ignition engines, acetylene has been suggested as a possible alternative to petroleum-based fuels since it can be produced from non-petroleum resources (coal, limestone and water). Therefore, acetylene was evaluated in a single-cylinder engine to investigate performance and emission characteristics with special emphasis on lean operation for NOx control. Testing was carried out at constant speed, constant airflow and MBT spark timing. Equivalence ratio and compression ratio were the primary variables.

"The engine operated much leaner when fuelled with acetylene than with gasoline. With acetylene, the engine operated at equivalence ratios as lean as 0�53 and 0�43 for compression ratios of 4 and 6, respectively. However, the operating range was very limited. Knock-induced preignition occurred either with compression ratios above 6 or with mixtures richer than 0.69 equivalence ratio. Both the indicated thermal efficiency and power output were less for acetylene fuelling than for gasoline.

"Acetylene combustion occurred at sufficiently lean equivalence ratios to produce very low NOx and CO emissions. However, when the low NOx levels were achieved hydrocarbon control was not improved over that with gasoline.

"Despite the potential for NOx control demonstrated in this study of acetylene fuelling, difficulties encountered with engine knock and preignition plus well-known safety problems (wide flammability limits and explosive decomposition) associated with acetylene render this fuel impractical for spark ignition engines."

Unfortunately the explosions and general safety problems, as expected, make it unusable as a fuel by itself.