A new internal combustion engine working on polyethylene has been designed and manufactured in Russia. For the time being, there’s a lot of information available only on another design, a hydrogen engine. It’s known that hydrogen is a very flowing substance that easily penetrates into any micro fracture. Besides, hydrogen is extremely explosive.

The principle of operation of the new engine is given below. Combustible gas is directly released in the engine from burning polyethylene, i.e. polyethylene is a fuel for this engine. A strip of ordinary polyethylene is heated and emits a combustible gas (ethylene, propylene, methane) which is immediately burnt in a special chamber. Various types of this engine for vehicles, helicopters and planes have been developed. In aviation engine, granulated polyethylene is used instead of polyethylene strip. According to the engine developers’ opinion, engines burning polyethylene, save Russia from petrol deficiency, since polyethylene is produced from natural gas. If vehicles are shifted to polyethylene fuel, both the economy and ecology will benefit, since natural gas burns out completely.

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