"Dan Nafe" wrote


You could use the fuel as an engine coolant in a liquid cooled diesel
like
the Deltahawk.

With a wet wing, you'd get hot wing anti-ice capability and a skin
radiator
in the bargain.

1960's vintage Allis Chalmers crawlers using the diesel fuel as a
cooling
medium and working medium for the torque converter. Worked well.
tom

would a mazda/wankle-rotary run on Jet-A, JP-4, etc?

If it did, it would come the closest chance of having waste heat deice the
wing. Wankel engines do not have a high enough compression ratio, I
believe.

The other issues have been kicked around before.

1.) Wings make poor radiators. The boundary layer of air does not move
enough, to carry the heat away efficiently. It was tried, even in the early
years of air racing.

2.) Internal combustion engines do not produce enough waste heat to deice a
wing, even if 100% of the exhaust heat and engine cooling heat was captured,
and put onto the wing. 100% will never happen, and that makes the
possibilities even more unlikely.
--
Jim in NC