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Suppose one has with a Crower six-stroke engine, with a dedicated steam exhaust valve in each cylinider, and a steam condensor.
Why do we have to stick with water and steam for the 5th and 6th strokes?
Why not use an alternative working fluid, such as gasoline? This would allow the use of only
one fuel tank (gas), instead of two (gas and water). Any gasoline vapor which isn't completely evacuated from the cylinder by the end of the 6th stroke would simply get mixed with the incoming air of the 1st stroke, which is no big problem, since we're usually putting fuel in with the air anyway.
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I wonder what you'd do with the boiled gas. Once a
good part of it is vaporized, you'll lose a lot of room
you'd ordinarily have for fresh air, and if you plan on
getting rid of it, you're ruining Crower's purpose of
efficiency anyway. |
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