Mr René Herail's energy saver.
Key words: economizer, energy, fuel, gasoline, engine, consumption, lower, reduce.
Here is an article published on July 2 and 3, 1990 in the Journal le Present concerning a fuel (and necessarily pollution) saver patented by Mr René Herail that Renault refused to develop and which was hidden from us for years. The process is simply based on volatilization of the fuel (by a vacuum) instead of a much less efficient spraying in terms of combustion (and yet this is the solution chosen for direct injections….)
.pdf version of the interview: in .pdf form.
From pollution, make horses!!
The void invites you and the process has existed for 15 years.
Why do we persist in hiding it from us?
(Article taken from the magazine Present July 2 and 3, 1990)
Pollution from gasoline engines has been maintained for more than 15 years throughout the world due to questions of taxes levied by States and quantities sold by oil tankers.
A French researcher: René Hérail who invented a device which replaces catalytic tubes obtains a pollution rate three times lower than that of the future standard (20 gr against 66 gr) reduces nitrogen oxides by 15% accuses: Since 1974 where Renault tested my device, the results were hidden. The process is to black out then cheat, misinform, lie, not shying away from any crime. On January 23, we developed a research program for a clean and economical engine.
A period of 5 to 8 years is planned to achieve this and, in the meantime, we only talk about improving catalysis. This would only be a 5-8 year extension of the current state. However, everyone in charge of the program knows that the clean engine they say they are looking for exists. Perhaps they even know that catalysis is only a trick by which we spend 22,4% more fuel to increase the carbon dioxide content by approximately 13%.
We asked René Herail to tell us more.
– How is it that your process, although operated and sold in a garage, is not
not better known?
I am going to tell you. But first a word of preamble if I may. It has never been clearly said to all those who use gasoline engines to pollute means transforming their fuel into pollutants, losing energy by wasting it, butchering their engine by unnecessarily force-feeding it with fuel supplied in such a form that it cannot do anything other than decompose a good part of it hot. He is curious, too,
that in most of the media we spread a whole bunch of nonsense like: "Lead protects the valves and pistons" Or again: 'You cannot use unleaded fuel in this or that engine.' What is even more curious is that the way to avoid pollution has existed for more than 15 years and that it has been hidden. This has been hidden because the Oil god, the Golden Calf, is still standing. Everyone here pays an exorbitant tax, the taxes will soon be four times the purchase price. But the worst part is not that: it and its use greatly disrupts everyone's lives.
It was Renault who tested my process in 1974: pollution lower than that required in 1992.
But here it is: the saving thus achieved (15%) would reduce tax revenues and the quantities sold by oil companies by many billions…
To further increase consumption by more than 20%, we are offered catalysis
by which we continue to decompose the wasted gasoline with a heater effect, into a whole bunch of unpleasant products, without resolving the problem other than on paper.
– Should we give a definition to pollution?
This is all the gases released from engines and petroleum product burners.
It results from the inability of carburetors and injectors to completely transform fuel into gas.
– What is the result of this incapacity?
As it is impossible to burn (combine oxygen with a combustible body) any fuel which is not entirely in gaseous form (Editor's note: combustion in a reciprocating engine taking into account the cycle speeds) the entire part of the gasoline that remains liquid cannot burn (and therefore does not produce energy). Not only does it not produce energy but it absorbs it to be transformed into pollutants, which causes a series of significant disadvantages.
– What are these pollutants in gasoline engines?
First of all, carbon monoxide (CO), unburned gasoline residues (HC), nitrogen oxides (Nox).
There has been a lot of hype about the latter with the aim of imposing catalysis, but they only exist in trace amounts for gasoline engines.
Certainly they are the most dangerous of all. But then we don't really understand that we
lets diesels operate which produce 16 g of NOx per kWh of power
developed while we made a big fuss over the 3 to 5 mg per kilometer of motors
gasoline… (editor’s note: 1 kWh of thermal energy = approximately 1 km vehicle)
– You talked about the inability of carburetors and injectors to transform gasoline into gas. Why is that?
Carburetors and injector are just sprayers. What we called
“Carburization” has until now only consisted of spraying more or less finely into the air sucked in by the engine. It worked like that. Routine meant that we didn't look any further. However, spraying is not enough to evaporate. This is the origin of current misfortunes. If we watch a carburetor operate, we see an umbrella-shaped cone forming which opens when we accelerate. It is noted that an infinity of droplets which, starting from the top of the cone, will crash onto the walls of the
conduit which goes towards the cylinders along which they flow.
Looking more attentively we could record, if our eye had the
perception, that a droplet quickly loses part of its weight, it is the most volatile constituents which evaporate, beginning to saturate the air sucked in by the engine, but what remains of this droplet crashes against the wall of the conduit extended by the intake manifold and trickles.
Once gasoline runs off, it can no longer evaporate. First of all because it is in air that is already partially saturated. Everyone knows that the speed of evaporation is then very slow, in fact it reaches liquid into the cylinder.
– The reasons for this phenomenon?
Gasoline, contrary to what is generally believed, is a mixture of very different hydrocarbons whose evaporation rates are not the same and the octane numbers which indicate their resistance to self-ignition, are very different. Also. Those are the
normal zero octane paraffins. Oleins: zero octane.
Naphthene: octane number 34.
Iso-parafinns: Octane number 100. Aromatics: Octane number 130.
The first 3 are very volatile, quickly evaporated they have become a carbureted gas which transports iso paraffins and aromatics to the cylinders which trickle or remain in the state of suspended droplets. This is the disaster because we filled the cylinders with a mixture comparable to that which produces firedamp in the mines. The gas fueled by the light constituents resembles methane, as soon as it is compressed it ignites. The droplets suspended in this gas resemble coal dust in mines.
Since the use of petroleum essences we obtain fuel mixtures
heterogeneous which results in multiple and inconsistent self-ignitions, the
firing taking place in an anarchic manner. The pistons undergo a terrible beating because each droplet is comparable to a small bomb whose explosion gives rise to very shattering local pressures which are reflected unevenly on the different points of the pistons, creating the knock which is the beating of the piston skirt against the cylinder wall.
The effect of the clicking noise which can be heard at low speed but does not stop at high speed is very destructive.
However, that's not all: each droplet decomposes (by producing pollutants) absorbs calories. Reducing the temperature reduces the energy of the motor. It is the incomplete combustion of gasoline which is the cause of all these inconveniences. As long as it has not completely passed into the gas state, it will be like this.
– How to get out then?
Find a way to evaporate it completely and instantly. I searched for a very long time trying various systems which did not give good results. And then, one day, I was fishing on the banks of the Adour. I dipped my thread in the water, absent, my mind obsessed with my search. Now, I was on a levee in which there were large cement tubes which allowed water to pass through. The tide was rising.
A jellyfish following the edge. It arrived at the entrance to the tube, deformed, stretched and passed, sucked in. Like a flash my subconscious tells me: “Your droplet is the jellyfish”.
Then the idea of using a vacuum quickly came to me.
The time between spraying and introduction into the cylinders is very short. However, you must have created a perfectly gaseous and homogeneous mixture before reaching the inlet valve. I noticed that the vacuum acts in less than five thousandths of a second, which is more than sufficient for the fastest engines. It is likely that
in such a short time, it does not go into detail by selecting the order of evaporation of the different constituents.
Everything changes to a gaseous state, therefore everything burns. There is no more decomposition
hot: we obtain free energy with the part of the gasoline previously
decomposed hot into pollutants.
– But you went even further?
Usually the ignition timing is a compromise because we find ourselves having a
multitude of untimely ignitions, localized auto-ignitions when it would be necessary to be able to control the electric ignition by spark plug at the most favorable moment.
As we are not in control of self-ignitions, we choose the moment of least
disadvantage for firing. This drawback no longer occurs due to the stability of the mixture under compression: a better yield is obtained.
More simply put: instead of the ignition resembling wisps, the ignition of the mixture starts from the candle and propagates harmoniously, which results in the pressure being identical in every way. We finally obtained the adiabatic expansion under equi-pressure which all the Mechanics textbooks talked about without believing in it anymore.
– How long did it take you to develop your device?
Around 19 years old because having no means of measurement, I proceeded by
groping.
– What was your initial intention?
I wanted to avoid wasting fuel. Having concluded that it could not burn, I sought to compensate for this defect. Of course the question of pollution was not of primary importance at the time, nor did we have anything to measure it with. However, I understood that the pollution would be less as the combustion would be more perfect.
I think I succeeded: 3 per thousand CO at idle and a tangent content of zero at revs prove it. Doing better doesn't seem possible.
– What is your wish today?
I would like us to recognize:
1) That the clean engine officially existed since the tests carried out by Renault in 1974.
2) That it was thanks to the invention of vacuum evaporation that I made that they were possible
3) That I have already exceeded the objectives of the January 23, 1990 Program
4) That catalysis is useless. Not only useless but harmful. It increases consumption by more than 20% and the volume of carbon dioxide by more than 13%. This is nonsense, a deception, a scam.
5) That my invention not only eliminates pollution on all gasoline engines
currently in service but makes it possible to manufacture new engines with high compression ratios that are more powerful, more economical, more durable, and even less polluting. He
will reduce the volume of carbon dioxide by approximately 20%.
6) That we have maintained the pollution of the planet simply for sordid questions of money. And that’s enough.
We will not stop the truth from coming out of the well. Could it be oil…