Diesel Natural Frequency

[ecopower]

What is the natural frequency of diesel?

[ecopower]

Hi,

The question relates to diesel fuel not the engine.I am working on a project which involves applying an electromagnetic field to diesel in a fuel line which restructures it making it burn more efficiently (a similiar technology to magnets , fuel cats etc)

We know that there would be a natural frequency or ressonance which would have an optimum effect but dont know what it is!

Dave

[gen2]

What restructuring do you anticipate taking place? The main constituents of deisel are saturated straight chain hydrocarbons. Cetane, or n-hexadecane (C16H34), typical of diesel fuel. Like EDDIE51 I would expect no effect from an electromagnetic field.

[MrPahoehoe]

Restructuring a polymer like diesel would presumably change its viscosity amongst other physical properties. Can't see how this would affect its properties during oxidation. Especially making it more efficient by a big enough margin to run an electromagnet.

Wait a sec.....am I being thick here? Surely magnestism and resonance frequencies are unrelated? The magnetism will act on the polarisation on the molecules due to weak nuclear force......unless you want to apply a magnetic pulse to instigate a vibration in the molecules?

Interesting topic, but I've never heard anything of the sort before....that doesn't mean much as my experience is hardly the 'be all and end all'. Maybe try experiementing with different frequencies, just be careful: it could always improve efficiency more than expected :)

If you do have some positive results I'd be very interested to hear about them though, obviously once your patents had been approved and you had made your first million or so.

And my mate just suggested that the natural frequency of diesel might be 91.6p ;-)

[Large Pants]

The guy who invented the first diesel engine was Mr Rudolf Diesel and his first ever engine ran on peanut oil.

He designed it with the idea of being able to run on things produced on a farm i.e vegetable oils. So Diesel engines are actually designed to run on things like that