its funny i was JUST about to go into the o2 subject. Knowing that o2 generally seeks to bond as soon as it can i would "assume" as soon as it bumps into another oxygen atom then the bond happens. but what about the ones that dont bump into another before they get burnt up.. what effect does that have?
I would expect MOST of the oxygen in whatever form to be used in combustion, so any that doesn't will have negligible effect no matter whether its bonded or not. the question is, which oxygen does it bond with? a free O from the nitrous charge, or perhaps some of the O from the fuel... or maybe even from a little of the water vapor thats naturally in the air..
I doubt there's enough time between dissociation and combustion for much if any bonding to go on, between anything other than the products of combustion.there is so many variables, but aside from all of them, my biggest concern is TIME.
TIME is the MOST IMPORTANT FACTOR that 99.99999999999999999999% of people don't even consider. how much time does the engine realistically have for all these bonds to occur?
How much does it have for ANYTHING to occur and there are NUMEROUS processes that are seriously affected by the time available. Just like people say there is plenty of heat in the engine, well that is true, but aluminum doesnt transmit heat as fast as nitrous can suck it out, so at a high enough rpm with enough nitrous, then your purely relying on compression heat.
All very likely especially if your using Ceramic coatings to keep heat OUT of the engine.
That certainly wouldn't help in the vaporisation process. I think so many things change at super high levels of nitrous that it would take some serious R&D to figure out what is going on, and realisitcally and cost wise, it may just be easier to "guess and check" and see what works. maybe then you can get enough data to start peicing together the puzzle.
ALL VERY TRUE but luckily for my customers, I've been collecting the relevant info for 35 years and since the advent of data loggers and advanced sensors, I'm now getting more information back from my customers than ever. It's that knowledge (along with my UNcommon sense), that's responsible for the advances in our system designs. I also have a problem with the data logging at these levels. I talked with a couple physicist at school and they assured me that it IS true that pressure does not travel evenly and that pressure can be different on the outside than the center, especially if there is a huge temperature difference.
I'm sure that's true during the COMBUSTION process but I doubt it applies to the compression stroke (which is what we were talking about when I said it would be even), except when squish areas create high pressure areas/waves. That's why pressure can be described as 'waves' otherwise that would be totally inappropriate. But of course this is virtually unnoticeable until you get up to a piston speed that can "out run" that effect. On car engines.. prbably not a problem.
From a Formula 1 article I recently read, even NA combustion is so chaotic that it's a MIRACLE that so few firing cycles misfire, so God knows what they'd make of nitrous combustion. dont worry about answering all the "what ifs" trev.. just throwing things out there.
LOL - You should know better by now, than to think I wouldn't respond even to speculation. - LOL