GREAT PLAINS DIESEL TECHNOLOGIES, L.C.

Development of Programmable Diesel Fuel Injection

Mission
The mission of Great Plains Diesel Technologies, L.C., is to significantly improve diesel fuel economy and reduce in-cylinder formation of emissions through programmable fuel injection.

Diesel fuel economy is related to thermal efficiency, the measure of how much heat is converted into work.   Presently, the thermal efficiency of a truck or bus diesel engine is about 40 to 45 percent.   Programmable fuel injection, also known as rate shaping, is the fast, infinitely adjustable control over the rate at which diesel fuel is injected into the engine combustion chamber.   Programmable fuel injection in turn offers superior control over the rate at which heat is released within the engine, enabling 60+ percent thermal efficiency, depending on the specifics of an engine design and its emissions.

Fuel Economy
The scale of savings possible is large.   For example, page 370 of a report entitled National Transportation Statistics lists the number of combination trucks and their fuel consumption.   In 2006, each of 2,170,000 trucks consumed an average of 12,938 gallons of fuel.   If mileage improved by "only" a single percentage point, and the thermal efficiency less than that, each truck would average 129 gallons less per year.

Engineering Development
A programmable diesel fuel injector would take into account:

1. how the Ideal Heat Engine converts heat into work using the least amount of fuel;
   
   
   • Sadi Carnot, 1824 (Paraphrased):   Heat not used to expand matter is wasted.
     
   
   
2. the sensitivity of real engine design and fuel economy to the Rate of Heat Release from oxidizing a fuel;
   
   
   • Rudolf Diesel, 1892 (Paraphrased):   Admit the combustible gradually.
   
   
3. which Electro-technology enables the construction of a programmable fuel injector for superior control over the rate of heat release; and
   
   
4. the Status of this development.   Test data proof that speed and displacement are electrically controllable is offered in the graph on the status page.

Speed is Life describes the project management philosophy behind the development of a proven high performance product.

Great Plains Diesel Technologies, L.C.

• Corporation Founded In 2008 In Ames, Iowa USA
• Telephone: 515.663.9942
• contact@greatplainsdieseltechnologies.com