What will happen if i supply a lot of negative ion to engine combustion chamber?

Question

Firstly, sorry for my English. I'm a Malaysian and just 15 years old.....

What will happen if i supply a lots of negative ion by putting an ionizer to air intake of a car?

If i'm right, ignition coil will generate positive ion at spark plug then the positive ion hit the spark plug ground to produce spark. (correct me if i am wrong).

If i supply negative ion to the combustion chamber, will it help spark plug to spark better?

Any help will be appreciated...........
Thanks......

Answer 1

there are several things for you to understand.
1. spark produced at spark plug in most vehicles are a.c and not d.c current.
2. spark is produced by a very high potential difference of the order of 25000 V even when the current is very less.
3. if you introduce negative ions even with a very large ionizer, most of it will get discharged at the manifold itself as the same is made of metal. further most of the cars have their negative terminal grounded. so you cant introduce a significant amount of ions.
in a nutshell, you cannot influence the spark quality with an ionizer.
hope this will clear your doubt.

Answer 2

Like is stated above the negative ions will never reach the combustion chanber. They immediately break down/combine with oxygen molecules to form ozone. Ozone is a lot more violent oxidizer than oxygen so if the ozone lasted long enough to make it to the combustion chamber (without reacting with something else and reverting back to oxygen) it would likely just result in a lot of pinging and probable the death of your engine (if you had a large enough ionizer to feed the engine which itself would be the size of the car)..

Answer 3

IF you could ionize the fuel air mixture, you might get better combustion.
Remember though that your engine and manifold are necessarily grounded. It is highly unlikely that any charge you induce would survive to reach the combustion chamber. You might also get an 'electrostatic precipitator` effect in the fuel/air passages which would be detrimental.

Answer 4

I don't recommend it since you probably have to achieve escape velocity to generate the ions needed to help your combustion process.

but seriously ions tend to bind with the surrounding air as soon as they are generated so no ions would ever get into the combustion chamber

Answer 5

Negative ions are usually cited as giving health benefits, not aiding in combustion.