Helpful Technologies proposes a way to save lives
June 20, 2011 by admin
Filed under Discussions
SUMMARY
After 15 months in Iraq, I became convinced, Americans are getting killed moving fuel we would not need if we took simple, inexpensive, feasible steps to be MORE EFFICIENT.
= Steven M. Anderson, BG (Ret) US Army=
The use of petroleum products is pervasive and critical for the United States and is especially important for the U.S. Armed Forces. Constant improvements in fuel efficiency are necessary to support ever increasing mobility and power generation requirements in the combat zone.
Although the development of alternative fuels could be the future; oil is and will remain the most affordable source of mobile energy for the next 20+ years. The top 20% of fuel burners – trucks, locomotives, generators, ships, aircraft, etc.- will remain powered by oil-based fuel.
The U.S. Army has over 150,000 troops deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan. On average the U.S. Army daily spends about 22 gallons of fuel per person (8,000 gallons per person per year) at approximately $30 per gallon in Afghanistan and $17 in Iraq. The aggregate fuel usage rounds to about 1.2 billion gallons per year. Electric power generation comprises about 65% of overall fuel consumption at an annual expense in excess of $28.8 Billion.
Conventional methods of improving fuel efficiency typically require significant changes to the engine design (i.e. engine retrofit to compressed natural gas/liquefied natural gas fuels or hybrid-electric technologies).
On June 2011, Helpful Technologies Inc. has submitted the white paper to the U.S. Army to discuss existing and near-term opportunities for increasing fuel efficiency on diesel generators by using novel amplified atomization system developed by the company’s engineers. This new method allows reduction of fuel consumption without changing existing engine configurations and permits extended, more efficient use of fossil fuel in forms presently used by the U.S. Army.