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Scientific research regarding the influence
of magnetic fields on passing fluids dates back to 1831 and concerns mostly
the experiments made by Michael Faraday and James C. Maxwell. Faraday
discovered that water flowing past a conductive material will generate
a weak electrical charge.
The first known patent of a device ameliorating water characteristics
through the use of a magnetic field of a solid magnet was filed for protection
in Germany in 1890 on behalf of France and Cabell.
At the turn of the century a Dutch physicist, Dr. Johannes Diderik van
der Waals, discovered that hydrogen has cage-like structures, which, when
combined with carbon, form pseudo compounds. These molecular forces of
mutual attraction and repulsion stay next to each other ("van der
Waals forces"), however, when influenced by a magnetic field they
will de-cluster and then interlock (bind) with additional oxygen (which
can result in dramatic increases in combustion efficiency), and ascertained
that due to them e.g. gases condense or water coagulates. In 1910 he received
a Nobel Prize for his work. However a difficulty in creating a sufficiently
intense magnetic field hindered commercial application until recently.
The development of research on fuel energizers started during World War
II. As part of the armament strategy, the German industrial concern Messerschmitt-Flugzeugwerke
worked on the problem of eliminating smoke waft of the exhaust gases left
by the engines of the military aircraft (fighter planes and bombers).
As a solution to this problem they designed a magnetic device ("jet
fuel energizer") consisting of fire resistant ceramic element with
a hole for the fuel line, around which rod magnets were placed. As a result
of heavy testing a configuration of the magnetic field was found at which
the smoke of the aircraft engine exhaust gases was limited to the bare
minimum. Although the reduced fuel consumption was noted, it was merely
regarded at the time as a (beneficial) side effect.
In the UK at that time, planes were being fitted with electromagnets as
‘scarf’ collectors as the planes were being built so quickly.
Pilots found extra performance when the electromagnets were on.
The first work in civilian usage was done in the early 1940s in Europe
by a Belgian engineer T. Vermeiren.
In the United States the commercial use of magnets for fluid conditioning
started in the 1950s by the pioneering patent of Dean Moody, the world
precursor, together with the Belgian, of that form of fluid conditioning.
The men who wrote the next chapter in the world history of the magnetic
treatment of fluids were in the 1960s a Japanese Saburo
Miyata Moriya (the so called "wet" devices, i.e. inline) and
in the 1970s an American inventor Roland Carpenter.
In the 1980s Peter Kulish, a inventor from California and founder of MGI
designed the so called monopole system which strapped onto fuel lines.
In the 1990s Nigel Broderick (founder of Ecoflow plc) in England developed
and marketed the ECOFLOW series of magnetic “strap-on”
fuel and water conditioning products using his patented (multi-pole) central-reverse
polarity design.
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