Help please. I am quite puzzled. From the turboICE article
http://www.aquamist.co.uk/info/docum...rinjection.htm
There is a part of this article that I find disturbing, mostly because it confuses me in defining the goal of WI. Is it to evaporate a water/meth mix or not? The article almost justifies, boasts the systems poor evaporation efficiency.
Quoting:
The injection of water into the induction charge will immediately absorb heat from the charge thereby increasing its density. Evaporation of the water at this point is unlikely or very minor. The induction charge can at a maximum reach 100% relative humidity and will stabilize at an equilibrium state that is governed by temperature of the charge exiting the turbo and the relative humidity of the ambient air. At full saturation the induction charge will have a significantly reduced temperature somewhere between the ambient temperature and the temperature of the injected water.
Aquamist promotes a low pressure (100psi) system that outputs avg 50-80 micron droplets (guess), not the best way to evaporate water. So the statement may be correct, but I am confused. Are they trying NOT to evaporate until the intake valve? Because if you want to evaporate (and cool) more, simply get higher pressure behind a smaller nozzle, preston 10 micron fog, flash evaporation. So see I am confused. Cleary evaporative cooling can bring temps below ambient, even using hot water. We do it hear in outdoor mist settup all the time.
To evaporate, or not to evaporate?