The term Hydranol is a combination of two words, hydro, which means water, and ethanol. A mixture of 60% water and 40% ethanol is normally non flamable at room temperture, but raise the temperture of the hydranol to several hundred degrees above ambient and the hydranol becomes very flamable and explosive.
Ethanol is a clean source of energy that can be extracted from several sources. Ethanol can be cracked from crude oil, it can be made from biomass, although ethanol in the United States is usually made from grain crops. Note; 80 to 90 percent of garbage hauled into our landfills is biomass, this same biomass can be converted into biofuels, a viable source of energy.
When we use ethanol made from biomass and grain crops, we are completing a form of green cycle. The biomass is grown from the earth, refined into ethanol and then we use it for energy. In doing this, we emulate the basic cycles of life that occur every day through out the biosphere.
A mixture of ethanol and water burned in internal combustion engines is not new. Bombers in World War II used water-ethanol injection to get more power from their engines. The Baca Eight Stroke Engine however is the only engine designed to use a water-ethanol base as a primary fuel source. If you search the web, concerning alternate fuel and bio-fuel powered engines, you will find that all research is based on achieving a cleaner burning fuel to use in the four stroke, two stroke and diesel engines. All these engines require a fuel that is flammable at room temperture. The Hydranol fuel for the Baca Engine is usually non-flammable at room temperture.
The four stroke and eight stroke engine that run on gasoline require an additive mixed with the fuel to operate. The engines will burn up if they are run on pure gasoline. These additives serve to slow the burn down. they make the fuel less flammable, but the gasoline is still very flammable at room temp. Diesel fuels are less flammabe at room temperture, diesel engines are also more heat efficient than gas engines. This greater heat eff. makes the diesels more fuel efficient. The Baca Engine recycles heat energy to give the engine a more overall heat efficiency rating.
