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The Development of the Pumpless Gas Engine Concept
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The major events in the development of a “pumpless” gas engine concept are related. The immediate objective of the subject program was to develop a combustion system for natural gas fueled engines which, when compared with conventional gas engines, would be operationally simpler and easier to maintain with no appreciable penalty in specific fuel consumption.
The pumpless gas principle was successfully demonstrated on a single-cylinder, 2-cycle engine. The concept was then extended, with the aid of combustion photography, to a single-cylinder, 4-cycle laboratory engine. The feasibility of the concept was further demonstrated by the conversion of a commercially available 4-cycle, 4-cyl diesel engine.
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Witzky, J. and Hull, R., "The Development of the Pumpless Gas Engine Concept," SAE Technical Paper 700073, 1970, https://doi.org/10.4271/700073.Also In
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- Sept. 24 1968 Witzky J. E. Clark, J. M. Jr. American Gas Assn.
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