Thursday’s public demonstration of SulNOxEco Fuels on a 1959 Routemaster bus resulted in particulate matter being reduced by 91% and Nitrogen Oxide gases by 60%, when compared with the use of normal diesel on the same engine.
Stephen Bamford, Director of SulNOx Fuel Fusions, said the trial was an “historic moment in the world’s fight against pollution”.
Fuel emulsions are not new technology. Bamford explained, “The benefits of adding water to diesel fuel has been known about since the early 1900s, but the problem has been “stratification” of the emulsion and the excessive cost to the consumer.”
“The problem is water and fuel don’t mix. Over a relatively short period of time these two components separate and as every engineer knows, putting pure water into a combustion engine has catastrophic results.”
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