Would ozone be more efficient in a car engine than oxygen gas?

Question

What will happen if i put a UV light at air intake of my car?
Will it help combustion better, or just wasting my time?
Any help is very appreciated.....
Thanks......

Answer 1

Ozone (O3) is more chemically active than O2, so you'd get more energy per gallon of gas out of the combustion per se. However, that energy is simply being "borrowed" from the UV photon which created the O, which then attaches to an O2 to make O3. Since the alternator producing the electricity to power the lamp is powered by the gas engine, there would be no net energy savings. In fact, you'd have a net loss of fuel efficiency due to ozone production inefficiency; most of the UV will just pass through the air and heat the intake manifold.

That said, you would increase the engine *power* incrementally, just as you would if you injected nitrous oxide (a common trick for drag racing). I think you'd need a pretty big ozone generator to notice the difference, though.

Answer 2

You're wasting your time.

A UV light will not create ozone. Rather, ozone absorbs UV light, protecting humans from the Sun's rays.

You are right, however, in thinking that putting more oxygen atoms into the cylinder will give more power. The trouble comes from the fact that your car's ECU (engine control unit) assumes that air is coming in, and is 21% oxygen. If you replaced all the oxygen with ozone, you'd have 50% too much oxygen. The mass airflow sensor would not register this, and your engine would run extremely lean (or probably not at all).

If you reconfigured the computer to use 50% more fuel, you would make more power (not quite 50% more, but maybe 40% more). However, ozone is not the best choice for introducing more oxygen into the cylinder. Nitrous oxide is a much better choice, because it also has a large cooling effect, preventing the engine from overheating when outputting more power than it was designed for.

Answer 3

I have not seen anything concerning ozone as the second reactant in a cars engine.
All I know is, combustion reactions require oxygen (O2).
Ozone could react differently with the fuel, though I don't know.

Answer 4

I dont know if ozone would help or not, someone would have to find out if it has been tryed out. Ozone is not very stable and it makes metal stuff rust fast.

I cant see a UV light doing anything

Answer 5

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