[Vwdiesel] New engine

[Val Christian]

> This more detailed description was also on the site.
> so far I only have one question:
> Does preheating the air through the heat exchanger  have any increased
> benefit  over using a turbo to add more air in?
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> 
> Well, unless you use a rotary lock or some sort of device to keep the air
> stuffed into the engine, the preheatment would just result in less air
> intake overall, and barely any pressure, no?   I know the diagrams are
> overly simplified, but inside the heat exchanger, if the air takes up more
> space, to get to 6atm. you would need to trap it in there somehow... sort of
> like a supercharger, or positive displacement pump working as an airlock.
> -J

Preheating will not increase the energy from the compressed air, except
by the energy spent in heating.  -Val