INFO:

A new pollution-control technology for ships may become an industry standard following an exciting pilot project starting in February aboard the 5,100-TEU containership APL Singapore.

Using a device known as the water-in-fuel emulsifier, water is mixed with marine diesel fuel just before the fuel is injected into the engine, which could reduce nitrogen oxides – a principal component of smog – by as much as 20% or more. Emissions of particulate matter could also be lowered.

Preliminary results should be available by the second quarter of this year. If they show that the technology is effective, APL could install the emulsifier on other ships. In addition, Danish-based MAN Diesel, the world’s largest manufacturer of marine engines and maker of the APL Singapore’s main engine, has said it would consider including the machinery with its equipment if results are positive.

In addition, the test will also include evaluating additional pollution-control devices installed on the APL Singapore’s fuel injectors. Known as slide valves, they prevent fuel leakage during combustion, leading to a more complete fuel burn and reduced emissions.

The test will begin on a voyage of the APL Singapore from Kaohsiung (Taiwan) to Los Angeles and Oakland (California) in February. Emissions will be monitored with various ratios of water to fuel, and also at various levels of engine power. It’s estimated that for every 1% of water, nitrogen oxides are reduced by the same amount. The study will test water contents of up to 25%.

Once the vessel reaches Los Angeles, the slide valves will be installed on the engine’s fuel injectors. The research team will then continue monitoring emissions on the leg to Oakland to see how much more pollution is reduced by the slide valves.

The US$1.3-million research is co-sponsored by several public entities, including the US Environmental Protection Agency, the California Air Resources Board, four local California air-quality districts and the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. The APL Singapore will continue using the emulsifier whenever it’s in California waters. California is a world leader in working with companies to reduce pollution.

This test marks the beginning of a three-year evaluation of the fuel emulsifier, where APL will study the effects of the water-in-fuel mixture on the APL Singapore’s engine. Mixing water with fuel is counter-intuitive, and some suggest it could corrode engine parts over time. The long-term test will determine if water in fuel is indeed compatible with marine engines.

Using the fuel emulsifier and slide valves is part of a broader APL strategy for reducing air pollution. Also recently installed on the APL Singapore is a next-generation lubrication system that could reduce the burning of cylinder oil by 20 to 50%.

In accordance with California regulations in effect since 1 January 2007, APL is also using low-sulfur diesel fuel in its ships’ auxiliary engines while vessels are in California waters.

APL has numerous other pollution control initiatives underway. Among them are a program to replace older yard tractors in container terminals with newer, more environment-friendly models; the use of bio-diesel fuel for yard tractors and mobile container-handling equipment; electric ship cranes; an expanding collection of more than 2,400 electrical plugs instead of diesel generators for refrigerated containers at US West Coast terminals; strong support of the voluntary speed reduction program in Los Angeles Harbor; and experiments with a chemical-free organic enzyme that improves combustion of heavy fuel oil, thereby reducing pollution.
 
 

Hey all 
Been out of town a few days.... still a few more to go... glad to see some progress here..
Good work and thanks for the follow up Kampen     It would be good to know what family
of chemistry the surfactant comes from.... and ethyloxalate? alkyphenol? amide?
see what you can find out..... they won't give out their formula of course but they
should tell you some chemical makeup data and what it's general make up is.
take care all. 

@MrSiegel2
What a kind post you have made.  Thank you.
I will take it at face value as you have made no deception as to who you are.

I guess, first off, we wish you and your company no harm.  What you have accomplished is wonderful.
Live long and prosper!  Your company and its product will save lots of money in fuel costs to the larger
applications and companies, like marine, industrial, processing to name a few, not to mention the reductions
in emissions that are spewing from these factories and tanker ships.  We wish you much success in your
company's marketing and growth.

As you have taken the time to review the thread, you can see it is altruistic to its very core.
Our intention is to skin the same cat.... a different way and then share it with the "little" people.
They're running around this planet trying to make ends meet in an Oil driven global economy that is
crushing them.  We want to help take some weight off.

Perhaps you can relate and may indeed have the heart to wish us the same success.
In fact, It would seem to me,
to be the ONLY reason I think of, that you would disclose yourself in such an open and non-threatening way to us.

So..... welcome to the thread Mr. Siegel. 
You're more than welcome to input here.

I guess my first question to you would be..... primarily, are you a businessman, chemist or an engineer....?

Gas Emulsion and Volume Displacement

Think about this:

At atmospheric pressure:
take a balloon and fill it with 1 liter of Brown's Gas.
now take it and push it down into a bucket with 1 liter of Diesel Fuel.
You will now have displaced 1 liter of Diesel Fuel and in essence, doubled your volume in the bucket.
You would now have 2 liters of combustible fuel.

That's all we're trying to do folks.
You already know how long it takes to produce 1 liter of HHO...... not long!
We just need to make small bubbles.... and trap them!
 

@Kator01

Sorry for delay in answering your request. To avoid any misunderstanding the name is
DX50 and SPS.
DX50 is a multifunctional (diesel-oil) fuel additive and the SPS is the emulsifier (active tension inhibitor) with specs as explained.
Unfortunately this mixture is NOT commercially available, yet. I received a sample ca. 10l from a friend in Germany for testing purpose. Have done tests with this mixture on cultivated algae-(diesel-fuel) running a diesel-engine generator just fine.
As far as I know DX50 is made in Germany and SPS is made by Ciba-Geigy Switzerland.

Hope this info will be of any help.

Ooops, wrong thead

Kampen

We sell the system. We have various sized systems.

1 - 5 MT/Day
10 MT/Day
30 MT/Day
60 MT/Day
We can go up to 250 MT/Day.

These systems at the present time are out of the price range for the average guy.  It is designed for industrial applications and maritime use.

A distributor would purchase a system and then resell into the market.  Ironically the officials of the large cities in the US are not interested in saving any money.  Presently our biggest orders are coming from areas where the price of diesel is $10 and over per gallon..

Michael Siegel
Micro Bubble Technologies Inc.