Nitrogen enriched fuel

[slabchaser]

Is this stuff worth it or is it just a joke?

[pulsar_nx]

I don't know how well it works in fuel, but at work we use it for wave soldering and it makes the metal shiny vs. dingy from the slag without.

[theoilman]

It doesn't make any sense to me. The EPA and all engine manufacturers are working their tails off for us to eliminate nitrogen compounds in the exhaust. Why would you want to make it harder by introducing additional nitrogen in the fuel? My logic says it is a bad idea. How can you add more at the "front end" and not get more/worse at the "back end?"

Any fuels, fuel systems, emissions engineers that can clear this up out there???????

[CJH]

What the benefit of using it?

Just wondering why you are considering it.

[delcecchi]

Something like nitromethane that carries oxygen? Nitromethane is CH3NO2 or a molecule of methane with two atoms of oxygen attached. Used in car racing. I don't think it is for applications subject to EPA regulation.

One link said it is sort of like gasoline with the nitrous oxide already in it.

[hydro]

Nitromethane provides much of the oxygen needed for combustion, giving it an ideal air/fuel mix of about 6:1 by weight. That's why the fuel cars can produce so much power, by pumping huge amounts of fuel in relation to the air needed to run the motor.

Nitrogen enriched gasoline sounds like the next marketing gimmick to me.

[pulsar_nx]

I believe it is the stuff sold at shell that is nitrogen enriched for cleaning not nitromethane.

Also I think that most of what we breath in is nitrogen, I think oilman may be thinking of sulfur like the low sulfur diesel fuel. I could be wrong on that though.

I might have to agree with hydro that it may be a gimmick. The way that I understand it is that nitrogen is a gas, so wouldn't it evaporate or fizz out like co2 in soda?