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This is not so complex or anything just meant as a simple school project..
Much energy of that which is stored in gasoline for internal combustion engines are wasted as heat and in best cases 20% is changed into useful energy.
So that means that ALOT of energy flows with the coolant water and exhaust stream (which also has Ke??) which is not used at all it just gives it off to the air.
My question is would it be possible to somehow make use of this energy by eg the means of a modified Turbo that picks up the energy in the exhaust stream to drive a generator or by modiefying the cooling system (or both together) by removing the cooler and adding a condenser to condense another fluid which could spin a turbine which in turn would drive a generator? The aim is that the energy "collected" would be stored in a battery (which would be used as a buffert too) and would drive an electrical motor and the power accessories in the car to improve the effiency of the engine. The electrical motor would be used together with the combustion engine (by gearing) to, to some extent, easier the load of the combustion engine so that less energy (less gas) is needed. Thus getting better mpg.
And when it powers the electrical accessories, the load would then too be lighter since the engines generator would not be used as much.
Is it possible theoretically and practically??
It would be real fun to build one if this is true...
Thanks
//Dan
Much energy of that which is stored in gasoline for internal combustion engines are wasted as heat and in best cases 20% is changed into useful energy.
So that means that ALOT of energy flows with the coolant water and exhaust stream (which also has Ke??) which is not used at all it just gives it off to the air.
My question is would it be possible to somehow make use of this energy by eg the means of a modified Turbo that picks up the energy in the exhaust stream to drive a generator or by modiefying the cooling system (or both together) by removing the cooler and adding a condenser to condense another fluid which could spin a turbine which in turn would drive a generator? The aim is that the energy "collected" would be stored in a battery (which would be used as a buffert too) and would drive an electrical motor and the power accessories in the car to improve the effiency of the engine. The electrical motor would be used together with the combustion engine (by gearing) to, to some extent, easier the load of the combustion engine so that less energy (less gas) is needed. Thus getting better mpg.
And when it powers the electrical accessories, the load would then too be lighter since the engines generator would not be used as much.
Is it possible theoretically and practically??
It would be real fun to build one if this is true...
Thanks
//Dan