History
Following a review of the fundamentals of energy utilisation in vehicle operation during 2005, a search began to identify a system that would substantially improve fuel efficiency. It is well known in science circles that a running road vehicle expended some 36% of the available fuel energy to Exhaust, 33% to Engine Cooling and 4% to Rolling Resistance leaving only 27% of the energy to power the vehicle along the road.
Studies by the inventors of the CESAR technology showed that the heat energy available from a vehicle exhaust was more than capable of producing sufficient steam to power a small steam engine, which would itself have very useful output. This output could then be used to supplement the main power requirement of the vehicle thus substantially reducing the main fuel usage and with it vehicle emissions.
During the latter half of 2006 and the early part of 2007 the robustness of the theoretical proposition was authenticated by inspection and by the construction of a laboratory Test Cell in Newhaven UK. The Test Cell featured a large diesel engine running under controlled conditions through a Dynamometer coupled to a steam storage device and control system. By mid 2007 it had been shown by practical results that the basic principle of heat recovery and steam generation correlated with the theory and work could begin on considering the commercial application of the system.