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Old 11-24-2013 | 08:15 AM
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Originally Posted by warbirdfanatic
You're forgetting an important thing, kero is quite a clean fuel, it's the oil that's the nasty thing in this situation, you also need to think about the properties of methane in terms of flash point heat etc! you could end up cooking a NGV, then you have the fuel parameters in the ECU that have been setup for Kero and not methane. I'm not ruining the idea, it's very clean to use methane but it will need more input than just swapping the fuel etc
Yeah but kero has carbon dioxide that lasts for thousands of years. While methane only stays in the atmosphere for 3 years. I was thinking of a pressurized nozzle which would shoot out methane into the engine then mix the methane with the air by a motor. And than ignite it with a spark igniter.