Coal Gas
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Report: A Mechanism for Improving Fuel Efficiency in the Burning of Coal Gas with the Unique Fuel Technology®

Written by Dr David Wheeler
July 21, 2009

The patent pending Unique Fuel Technology involves a proprietary approach to increasing the burning efficiency of coal gas. This proprietary approach involves structuring a low level resonant field around the circumference of a fuel line that in turn supplies coal gas for burn to produce energy.

Some background information is useful to this discussion:
Gasification is a process that converts carbonaceous materials, such as coal, petroleum, biofuel, or biomass, into carbon monoxide and hydrogen by reacting the raw material, such as house waste, or compost at high temperatures with a controlled amount of oxygen and/or steam. The resulting gas mixture is called synthesis gas or syngas and is itself a fuel. Gasification is a method for extracting energy from many different types of organic materials.
The advantage of gasification is that using the syngas is potentially more efficient than direct combustion of the original fuel because it can be combusted at higher temperatures or even in fuel cells, so that the thermodynamic upper limit to the efficiency defined by Carnot's rule is higher or not applicable. Syngas may be burned directly in internal combustion engines, used to produce methanol and hydrogen, or converted via the Fischer-Tropsch process into synthetic fuel. Gasification can also begin with materials that are not otherwise useful fuels, such as biomass or organic waste. In addition, the high-temperature combustion refines out corrosive ash elements such as chloride and potassium, allowing clean gas production from otherwise problematic fuels.
Gasification of fossil fuels is currently widely used on industrial scales to generate electricity. However, almost any type of organic material can be used as the raw material for gasification, such as wood, biomass, or even plastic waste.
Gasification relies on chemical processes at elevated temperatures >700°C, which distinguishes it from biological processes such as anaerobic digestion that produce biogas.
For the purposes of this report, only the byproduct gas produced from the gasification of coal is considered in terms of applying the Unique Fuel Technology, although and byproduct gas could be considered from the use of any type of raw materials.

The Unique Fuel Technology involves a device that is circular in design such that there are two halves. These two halves are placed around the circumference of the fuel line and then attached to each other to form a contiguous structure. The result of this device and its proprietary internal components is a resonant field that interacts with fuel molecules to bring about more efficient burn.

The integrity of the fuel is not altered with the application of the Unique Fuel Technology. In other words, no substance is added to fuel nor does the fuel every leave the containment of the fuel line. The Unique Fuel Technology simply attaches around the outside of the fuel line to create the intended effect.

The term “nanotechnology” is appropriate when it comes to the functional mechanism of the Unique Fuel Technology. This is because what defines a process as involving nanotechnology is that the chemical events take place on level of 100 nm or smaller to change the structure of coal gas molecules to burn more efficiently. Also, the term nanotechnology applies because fuel molecules are essentially rebuilt from the nano level up to their intended structural form with the application of the Unique Fuel Technology.

The resonant field provided by the Unique Fuel Technology is based on the proprietary internal fluid components to transfer an effect to fuel. The internal fluid in the Unique Fuel Technology contains high stored energy with unique frequency signatures (based on NMR testing of this fluid) that interface with fuel, but without direct physical contact. Although somewhat of revolutionary approach because of a sharing of nano molecular information from one fluid to another without direct physical contact between fluids, there is research already conducted that provides proof for the capacity of one fluid to change the structure of another based only on close proximity and without actually contact and mixing. Alexandra Goho conducted experiments in which one fluid was placed in close proximity to another but without actually mixing them together. Crystallization patterns were analyzed pre and post to this process and it was found that the affected fluid took on the same molecular structure (reference: Alexandra Goho presented information sharing experiments between fluids in Science News, September 11, 2004, Volume 166, No 11). Based on the capacity of liquid to liquid interface to share molecular structure information, it is reasonable to assume that a liquid to gas interface can do that same per the above description of the functional mechanism and the cited research by Alexandra Goho.

A quantum explanation for the effect of the vibrational and quantum energy exchange between the fluid in the Unique Fuel Technology and fuel is based on weakening the bonds between clusters of fuel molecules. In the case of coal gas the molecular structure is based on carbon and hydrogen bonding. The following represents a molecule of coal gas:

In the above molecular representation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons found in coal gas, the green spheres are Carbon and the yellow spheres are Hydrogen.

Bonding Molecular Orbital – MOs with electron density concentrated in the regions
between atoms. Bonding MOs have lower energy and greater stability than the atomic
orbitals from which it was formed

Antibonding Molecular Orbital – MOs with electron density concentrated in regions
other than between the atoms. Antibonding MOs have higher energy and lower stability
than the atomic orbitals from which it was formed

The efficiency of burning the Carbon/Hydrogen molecules in coal gas depends on the strengths of the bonds between the carbon to carbon atoms and the carbon to hydrogen atoms and between all the molecules composed of carbon and hydrogen. The only way to accomplish this based on nanotechnology principles is to increase the energy and decrease the stability in the shared electron orbitals of molecules. Based on weaker bonding, smaller clusters of Carbon/Hydrogen molecules can exist in its compressed or liquid continuum. These smaller clusters can then burn more efficiently based on increased ease by which the hydrogen molecules can separate from their carbon bonding to burn more efficiently in the presence of oxygen.

By virtue of easier bond breaking to allow the hydrogen molecules to become more available to burn in the presence of oxygen more energy will created based on the volume of fuel provided. Additionally, this will result in less CO2 and CO being produced based on less fuel being used to create the same amount of energy.

Much of what takes place with the application of the Unique Fuel Technology involves quantum mechanical events based on the input of information from one fluid to another such that there is an increase in energy and a decrease in stability between molecular bonds. This may very well provide an explanation for how special fluids or fluid to gas can effect each other without their actually a mixing and therefore physical contact to change molecular structure.

Another facet of the Unique Fuel Technology is the cascade principle. Much like the dynamics of living systems, once a trend is started with a specific change in chemical process there is an effect that cascades through the rest of the system based on physical proximity. This adds a more conventional macro chemical concept to the quantum mechanical explanation based on weakening chemical bonds. With the transformation of just a few molecules of coal gas is the effect can then be transferred to other molecules to increase the number that are smaller and therefore more accessible to burn more efficiently.

Gasoline and Diesel Tests

A considerable amount of testing with the application of the Unique Fuel Technology has already been conducted with vehicles that use gasoline and diesel. With on the road tests there is significant support for a beneficial effect in terms of increasing fuel economy and decreasing harmful emissions. Based on how the Unique Fuel Technology functions to make fuel molecules burn more efficiently with fewer pollutant emissions, the applications should include all fuel sources, such as gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, propane, natural gas, coal gas and biofuels.

Conclusion

The Unique Fuel Technology provides a novel approach to increasing fuel burning efficiency in a totally safe manner. Even with a few percentage point difference in burning efficiency with large volumes of coal gas used to create energy, the savings will be significant and emission levels will decrease in terms of CO2 and CO. 

© 2009, David Wheeler, Beaverton, Oregon 97008, All rights reserved