The Baca Engine uses a hi-energy chamber to temporarly store a capicator charged mix of fuel and air, the heat and shock wave energy is transfered back to the fuel and air mixture through this chamber. The main part of the engine runs at a operating temperture that is about 200 to 250 degrees. The Hi-Energy chamber maintains an operating temperture over 400 degrees F. This means that the hi-energy chamber must be heat shielded from the rest of the engine, for this reason, the engine uses ceramic shielding to contain the heat and shock wave energy inside the hi-energy chamber.
The hi-energy chamber has no moving parts other than the reciprocating motion of the hi-energy chamber valve and a tensor, the tensor vibrates like a tuning fork, this design allows the heat and shock wave-energy to pass through the tensor to the fuel air mixture. By doubling the stroke to the hi-energy chamber and recycling the heat and shock wave energy to the fuel and air mixture we achieve a capicator effect that allows the use of a much smaller engine block, the cylinder head is much larger because of its energy recylcing function. By design the Baca engine is smaller and more powerfull than the engines on the road today.
One experiment to show how the engine works by raising the energy level of the fuel air mixture, can be done in ones own kitchen. I use an electric stove to do this experiment, first you will need a stainless steel pot, the thinner on the bottom of the pot the better. Some Everclear, everclear is the easiest way to aquire ethanol with out a federal permit, and a book of matches. Prepare a mixture of 60% tap water and 40% everclear. Turn the heat up on the range as high as it will go. Wait untill the burner gets red hot, but do not put the pot on the burner yet. Fill a shot glass with the everclear and tap water mixture. Place the pot on the burner and in about three to four seconds the bottom of the pot will discolor from the red hot burner, when stainless steel heat discolors the temperture of the bottom of the pan is about 400 degrees or a little higher. Pour a small amount of the everclear, tap water mixture into the bottom of the pot and then toss a lighted match in with it. The reaction will burn very similiar to gasoline at room temperture. If you would like to simulate the reciprocating action of the engine, continue pouring a little more of the everclear mixture into the pot to sustain the reation. This sustained reaction will show that the everclear mixture will burn in a reprocating action.
Hydranol is merely a mixture of ethanol and water, much like the mixture of everclear and water, this mixture is a non-polluting fuel source when burned. The heat needed to sustain the reaction is recycled from the exhaust gases, this is by product heat energy, energy that we have bought and paid for at the pump. Usually this energy is wasted, but with the Baca engine this energy is recycled to achieve a more fuel efficient and non-polluting source of energy.
Please be carefull when you do this expermient as this creates a very flammable and dangerous reaction. WARNING hydranol burns clear so the burning effect is actually more flammable than it appears. If you would like to see the burn more visible, try 80 proof whisky, which has the same ethanol and water mixture. Whiskey has an artificial coloring in it which shows the burn more clearly, although I would not recomend that just anyone do this experiment, and if you do try this experiment please take all the safety precautions necessary to protect yourself.
