Friday, October 12, 2012 12:52:09 PM
Ethanol Boosted Direct Injection Engines
E-85 vehicles are just regular gasoline engines with the ability to tolerate high levels of ethanol. They tolerate it, but can't take full advantage of it. Kits can be purchased to make most gasoline burners handle up to E-85, but the best mileage is from mid level blends like E-15, E-20, E-30.
High compression engines such as the Ricardo are designed to take full advantage of ethanol's 113 octane, not just tolerate it. Ethanol is lower in BTU's, but again the key is tapping the octane. Ricardo's can run up to 100% ethanol.
"The technology, called Ethanol Boosted Direct Injection or EBDI, takes full advantage of ethanol’s best properties – higher octane and higher heat of vaporization."
"Ricardo technology achieves breakthrough efficiency for ethanol-fuelled engines
System surpasses gasoline efficiency, reaches near-diesel levels and reduces operational costs compared to current fuels."
"We're squeezing out more power than is possible with gasoline.”
“People are likely to be amazed with the performance and fuel economy that can be delivered from a comparatively small displacement engine running on a renewable fuel such as ethanol,” said Rod Beazley, director of the Ricardo Inc Spark Ignited Engines Product Group."
"The reason we are doing this is that while the engine test results speak for themselves, there is no substitute for experiencing in a vehicle the benefits of uncompromised performance and extremely high fuel economy that can be achieved using a renewable fuel like ethanol in an optimal manner."
The car companies are telling the ethanol companies that the new government standard of 54 MPG by 2025 is only possible with the high octane of ethanol. In other words, the new gasoline engines that will be coming out are similar to diesels in that they operate on high compression. I spoke about this in the past, Ricardo engines. They get more MPG on ethanol than gasoline. These smaller, high compression engines can't operate on the low octane of gasoline.
A lot of people are confused into thinking ethanol destroys MPG's, when in fact, it's the 90% subgrade gasoline(84 octane) that's partly to blame for the drop. Today's vehicles can't even operate on this subgrade form of gasoline without ethanol in it. Tomorrow's engines are being designed to take full advantage of the superior fuel, ethanol, and need at least 95 octane. Make no mistake about it, ethanol is a better fuel than gas.
Good Luck To All!$!$!$!$
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