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History of Magnetic Fluid Conditioning for Fuel |
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The history of scientific research regarding the influence of magnetic
field on passing fluids dates back to 1831 and concerns mostly the
experiments made by Michael Faraday and James C. Maxwell. Faraday
discovered that water flowing past a conductive material will generate
a weak electrical charge. The first known patent of a device ameliorating
water characteristic through the use of a magnetic field of a solid
magnet was filed for protection in Germany in 1890 on behalf of France
and Cabell. At the turn of the century a Dutch physicist, Dr. Johannes
Diderik van der Waals, discovered that hydrogen has cage-like structures,
which, when combined with carbon, form pseudo compounds. These molecular
forces of mutual attraction and repulsion which stay next to each
other ("van der Waals forces"), when influenced by a magnetic
field decluster and then interlock (bind) with additional oxygen,
which may result in dramatic increases in combustion efficiency, and
ascertained that due to them e.g. gases condense or water coagulates.
In 1910 he received a Nobel prize for this discovery. However a difficulty
in creating a sufficiently intense magnetic field has hindered its
commercial application until recently. The development of research
on fuel energizers started during the World War II. As part of the
armament strategy specialists from the German industrial & airspace
concern Messerschmitt-Flugzeugwerke worked on the problem of eliminating
smoke waft of the exhaust gases left by the engines of the military
aircraft (fighter planes and bombers). As a solution to this problem
they designed a magnetic device ("jet fuel energizer") consisting
of fire resistant ceramic element with a hole for the fuel line, around
which rod magnets were placed. As a result of heavy testing such a
configuration of the magnetic field was found, at which the smoke
of the aircraft engine exhaust gases was limited to the bare minimum.
Also the reduced fuel consumption was noted, which was regarded at
a time as a beneficial side effect.
In the UK, planes were being fitted with electromagnets as ‘scarf’
collectors as the planes were being built so quickly. Pilots found
extra performance when the electromagnets were on.
The first work in civilian usage has been done in the early 1940s
in Europe by a Belgian engineer T. Vermeiren. In the U.S., for years,
the "old-timers", who piloted their fishing boats out of
Murro Bay in California, would strap horseshoe magnets around their
fuel lines. They swore the magnets saved fuel and made their engines
run or start better and ... they were right. In the United States
the commercial use of magnets for fluid conditioning started in the
U.S. in 1950s by the pioneering patent of Dean Moody, the world precursor,
together with the Belgian, of that form of fluid conditioning. In
1954 a complaint was lodged with FTC (Federal Trade Commission) against
a company manufacturing the magnetic units, and FTC issued an injunction
(administrative order) prohibiting further production, based on a
false allegation that these units did not work. In 1961 the federal
court ruled against the FTC, as court records revealed that only 3%
of the 100,000 units sold malfunctioned.
The men who wrote the next chapter in the world history of the magnetic
treatment of fluids were in the 60’s a Japanese Saburo Miyata
Moriya (the so called "wet" devices, i.e. inline) and in
the 70’s an American inventor Roland Carpenter. In the 80’s
Peter Kulish, a inventor from California and founder of MGI designed
the so called monopole system which strapped onto lines.
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