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    read abt this in the phil star yesterday...

    totoo kaya ito, kaya lang gadget would cost 15k





    This truck can run 60 kms to a liter By Rudy A. Fernandez The Philippine Star 08/07/2004 A Filipino inventor has come up with an automotive contraption that can more than double a pickup truck’s mileage for every liter of gasoline. Aquilino Vinuya, a native of Pampanga who now resides in Tagum City in Davao del Norte, has named his contraption the hydrofuel merger device (HMD). The HMD can enable a vehicle to travel 30 to 60 kilometers for every liter of gasoline. Most cars travel 10 km per liter of gas. Over the past seven years, Vinuya, a retired United States army captain who once worked as an electronics technician at the former Clark Air base in Angeles City, has been using a prototype pickup truck fitted with HMD. Evaluated by regional representatives of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) on Sept. 9, 2003, the pickup covered 30 kms using one liter of fuel. In another test run, an HMD-suited car ran from Tagum City to Davao City and back — a stretch of 112 kms — on only two liters of gasoline, reported Dr. Eduardo Araral, retired president of the University of Southeastern Philippines (USP) in Davao City. The US-trained Araral is now Vinuya’s partner for marketing. The technology has also been tested by the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) and the USP College of Engineering. "All agreed on its technical, environmental and economic viability," Araral said. Last June 11, engineers from the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) also evaluated Vinuya’s prototype pickup truck. With HMD, they noted, the vehicle covered 32.28 kms per liter of gas at 40 kms per hour. Without HMD, only 11.94 kms were covered at the same speed. Recently, too, an engineer of the Philippine National Oil Co. (PNOC) tried Vinuya’s pickup and commented: "It’s too good to be true." Araral said, "This fuel merger technology has undergone painstaking research and development – enough time for us to claim that it is now a mature technology ready for commercialization." Following application for patent, the invention was assigned an Intellectual Property Office (IPO) application number on July 8, 2003. Since the application has exceeded a year, Araral said "if the Philippines adopts the American policy he should already be granted a provisional patent in order to allow his invention to help our economy." In a letter dated May 20, 2004, Araral presented the technology to President Arroyo as "an emergency and permanent solution to the pesky fuel crisis which threatens our country’s social, political and economic stability." The fuel merger, he stressed, is almost pollution-free (with carbon monoxide emission only 1.77 percent against the allowable 4.5 percent and hydrocarbon at only 4.5 parts per million versus the allowable emission of 800 ppm), with maintenance cost reduced by half and a lifetime guarantee. While ordinary pickups can travel only 8-12 kms per liter, the prototype pickup with HMD could cover 16-24 kms. "Actually, in several tests, we have achieved 32 to 58 kms per liter, depending on the velocity," Araral said. The inventor’s group has proposed the following measures to the government to facilitate the commercial use of the cost-saving device: • That the IPO director-general, who is directly under the Office of the President, can facilitate approval of the patent for exigency. • The government buys the invention after proper verification of its technical, economic and environmental viability at a price set by the inventor’s group. • That upon signing of the contract, which includes a guarantee of the invention’s viability and a down payment of half the set price, the technology will be transferred to the government. • If the government moves with dispatch, thousands of units of HMD can be fabricated and sold simultaneously or on a loan at P15,000 per unit and fitted into vehicles in accredited centers. • Payment of the balance can be made upon verified successful commissioning of five vehicles. • After the emergency transport situation has been eased, the government may sell the patent at same or higher cost to vehicle manufacturers who are investing in the country. • An alternative is for in-country carmakers to buy the technology with government incentives and mass produce the device for old cars/trucks and later incorporate the design into new vehicles. Dr. Araral concluded: "Madame President, here is a chance for your government to provide an alternative solution to the increasing problem in rising fuel costs, allowing you to create a legacy of national scope and significance to and for our beloved country." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PROMOS This truck can run 60 kms to a liter By Rudy A. Fernandez The Philippine Star 08/07/2004 A Filipino inventor has come up with an automotive contraption that can more than double a pickup truck’s mileage for every liter of gasoline. Aquilino Vinuya, a native of Pampanga who now resides in Tagum City in Davao del Norte, has named his contraption the hydrofuel merger device (HMD). The HMD can enable a vehicle to travel 30 to 60 kilometers for every liter of gasoline. Most cars travel 10 km per liter of gas. Over the past seven years, Vinuya, a retired United States army captain who once worked as an electronics technician at the former Clark Air base in Angeles City, has been using a prototype pickup truck fitted with HMD. Evaluated by regional representatives of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) on Sept. 9, 2003, the pickup covered 30 kms using one liter of fuel. In another test run, an HMD-suited car ran from Tagum City to Davao City and back — a stretch of 112 kms — on only two liters of gasoline, reported Dr. Eduardo Araral, retired president of the University of Southeastern Philippines (USP) in Davao City. The US-trained Araral is now Vinuya’s partner for marketing. The technology has also been tested by the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) and the USP College of Engineering. "All agreed on its technical, environmental and economic viability," Araral said. Last June 11, engineers from the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) also evaluated Vinuya’s prototype pickup truck. With HMD, they noted, the vehicle covered 32.28 kms per liter of gas at 40 kms per hour. Without HMD, only 11.94 kms were covered at the same speed. Recently, too, an engineer of the Philippine National Oil Co. (PNOC) tried Vinuya’s pickup and commented: "It’s too good to be true." Araral said, "This fuel merger technology has undergone painstaking research and development – enough time for us to claim that it is now a mature technology ready for commercialization." Following application for patent, the invention was assigned an Intellectual Property Office (IPO) application number on July 8, 2003. Since the application has exceeded a year, Araral said "if the Philippines adopts the American policy he should already be granted a provisional patent in order to allow his invention to help our economy." In a letter dated May 20, 2004, Araral presented the technology to President Arroyo as "an emergency and permanent solution to the pesky fuel crisis which threatens our country’s social, political and economic stability." The fuel merger, he stressed, is almost pollution-free (with carbon monoxide emission only 1.77 percent against the allowable 4.5 percent and hydrocarbon at only 4.5 parts per million versus the allowable emission of 800 ppm), with maintenance cost reduced by half and a lifetime guarantee. While ordinary pickups can travel only 8-12 kms per liter, the prototype pickup with HMD could cover 16-24 kms. "Actually, in several tests, we have achieved 32 to 58 kms per liter, depending on the velocity," Araral said. The inventor’s group has proposed the following measures to the government to facilitate the commercial use of the cost-saving device: • That the IPO director-general, who is directly under the Office of the President, can facilitate approval of the patent for exigency. • The government buys the invention after proper verification of its technical, economic and environmental viability at a price set by the inventor’s group. • That upon signing of the contract, which includes a guarantee of the invention’s viability and a down payment of half the set price, the technology will be transferred to the government. • If the government moves with dispatch, thousands of units of HMD can be fabricated and sold simultaneously or on a loan at P15,000 per unit and fitted into vehicles in accredited centers. • Payment of the balance can be made upon verified successful commissioning of five vehicles. • After the emergency transport situation has been eased, the government may sell the patent at same or higher cost to vehicle manufacturers who are investing in the country. • An alternative is for in-country carmakers to buy the technology with government incentives and mass produce the device for old cars/trucks and later incorporate the design into new vehicles. Dr. Araral concluded: "Madame President, here is a chance for your government to provide an alternative solution to the increasing problem in rising fuel costs, allowing you to create a legacy of national scope and significance to and for our beloved country." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PROMOS Copyright© Philstar.com, Inc. All Rights reserved Copyright© Philstar.com, Inc. All Rights reserved *************** I trust on you Lord.

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    Anyone with an opinion?

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    hmmm.

    sana iyong mga ganitong klaseng imbensyon inaalok din sa tsikot for testing

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    tried and tested na ba yan? bibili ako niyan kung walang defect sa engine ko in the long run...

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    how does the inventor say it works?

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    Sana this time mayroon naman mangyari.

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    oo nga...how does it work...? media exposure pa lang ang ginawa e.

    maybe the next step of the author is to narrate exactly how the 'contraption' actually works.

    especially dito sa mga ganitong community, they will definitely get a lot of criticisms. they must satisfy all of the probable consumer's queries.

    and oo nga...sana ay bigyan ng pagkakataon ang www.tsikot.com na i-test and verify the product.

    wala lang....dalawang 2 centavos lang (ehe...)

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    Demo!
    Demo!
    Demo!

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    Nabasa ko rin yan the other day. Baka meron taga-tsikot na may contact sa PhilStar, tapos kontakin natin yung inventor. Kung totoo yan, ayos yan! Kung hindi, well...

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    Hi, is tsikot still interested with this device? Because I can bring it to you. If anyone is interested let me know.

    By the way, this is true and it really works!

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    There is more "detail" on the HMD at:

    http://www.motorcyclephilippines.com...ad.php?t=59530

    Unfortunately, the HMD seems to live more on the pseudo-science than in real science.

    Excerpt:
    The devise is called Hydrofuel Merger Devise (HMD) invented by Mr. Aquilino R. Vinuya, Jr. featured in the Phil. Star sometine in August 17, 2004. The devise claimed to produce hydrogen from water in the radiator and atmosphere and MERGE with existing gasoline fuel. Here are excerpt of the documents provided by the inventor:

    HYDRO-FUEL MERGER DEVISE (HMD)
    (Hydrogen/Gasoline Blended Fuel)


    Hydro-Fuel Merger (HMD) has a complex combination of hydro-kinematics, hydrosphere and endothermic principles. It does not follow what is written in the book on how to separate hydrogen from water. It works under the natural law of chemistry and physics engineered by infinite strong force of nature’s order. Just as why we have the phenological cycles and geological changes beneath and beyond clustering by time and space. Why lightning and thunder is generated, why rain water rise and fall from troposphere down to the level of biotic land, why we have tornadoes & hurricane; we have earthquakes and volcanic mountain building eruption and alike; why we have atmospheric and geological electricity; why we have magnetic flux changes orchestrated by balance entropy of time cycle.

    One can imagine without these natural mechanics – this earth will not be an earth for a biome complex life in great or small, no mutation, no evolution or no life reappearances of any kind but a burren-dead world without a natural relief valve above for escaping excess pressure on each different universal particles – the gravitational forces of the earth will collapse nor change its path wobbling away from life. It’s wrong to say, opening of ozone layer in huge or small lies in the van Allen radiation belt will be the end destination of mankind. But it’s correct to say that their opening is a natural course of time and space to balance the forces within as the air we breathe in unique make up for sustaining life around. Though always remember the earth is showered with ten thousand meteorites a day, atomized in the earth’s atmosphere. Can you imagine where are these fragments stocked? These of course are embedding continuously in the Van Allen belt without ending. And no other bad consequences but another global ice age for the end of all living things if without the opening of the ozone layer. Else there will be an accumulation of flammable gases vacuumed and be pocketed. Like what happened in Tunguska, Siberia - a huge explosion in 1902 heard over a distance of 150 miles. All around it were charred. It was then theorized by science as a mini black hole. A magnitude of exploded gases developed from thermosphere then embodied in natural gases from lithosphere of the earth.

    HMD compounded those principles within its system as it works as an attached system to the engine with the following simple components: The main devise is the atomic reactor that separates hydrogen from water and other atmospheric gases through a mechanical and chemical process i.e. Methane reformation mostly hydrogen, iso-pentane, hexane, iso-octane, iso-propane, etc which are distributory agents on laminar flow conduit to ortho fuel and para gases either ferromagnetic or paramagnetic, feed into the engine piston percussion.

    Advances of the Technology: Engine Ability and Functions

    Hydro-Fuel Merger adapted to an old 4K Toyota engine with converted 1,600 kilograms double cab Torana Sedan body claimed by the inventor to demonstrate the following:

    1.Engine oil can be mixed with water at 200 mL per 50 kilometers which significantly improve engine performance rather than provide adverse outcome;
    2.The vehicle can start/accelerate at high gear engagement without dragging nor shifting to lower gear position ;
    3.Engine can start even water is poured inside the carburetor;
    4.It accelerates its own momentum at 5 degrees feet pressure on the accelerator pedal there and thereafter ;
    5.It can run at 15 kph or at 700 rpm at high gear position;
    6.Engine temperature is only reaching 48 oC even in a hot-road temperature;
    7.Adds 35% engine power and gives better performance when using only ordinary gasoline;
    8.Good for Hydromatic Transmission, 16 valves and for electro fuel injection system (generating toxic particles to almost zero level); and
    9.Engine life time is extended to 600% and, without overhauling in 25 years.

    Is this text really serious, a comedy of pseudo-science or plain snake-oil salesmanship playing on the ignorance of the common-man in scientific terminology?

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    Quote Originally Posted by jnash View Post
    Hi, is tsikot still interested with this device? Because I can bring it to you. If anyone is interested let me know.

    By the way, this is true and it really works!

    Any documented proof that the device works as claimed?

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    Actually, there are a lot. From DOE, DOST, Universities and some more. Mr Vinuya, my uncle, just passed away yesterday morning. It so happened that i am now chosen to continue his search for investors. This is the reason why i have been searching the net for any interested party. I am working on a presentation material which is a compilation of a foot high documentations of all tests (and they are signed documents) done on his works. I also intend to create a website that will showcase his works.

    He was really a noble man and for several years negotiating with investors that will accept his noble conditions for the good of common people. I have brought home with me some of the formal tests done particularly by the DOST and DOE. When i am done with it, i will broadcast it. I also intend to continue his patent application last 2006. He was very conservative and have considered almost every aspects; technical, economical, environmental, ease of use, and many more. Now it seems that he had perfected it already and maybe that is the reason why he left this life for he had done his share.

    Just before the year ended, he said "Eto na, ayoko na, wala na kong dapat baguhin at i-prove". And just as he finished his work, he came to rest as well at the age of 73.

    My uncle was a trainer in electronics for US navy when he was young. When he left the US Navy, all he did was to make things that will ease their way of living.

    Now, from our family we will try our best to bring his works to people who really need them.

    Ask questions, and i will try to answer them as best as i can. I am an engineer myself and had more than ten years teaching engineering sciences in different colleges and universities. His works sound crazy but when explained and when you see how it works then you get to realize how simple it is yet it works in wonderful ways!

    My apologies if i sounded sentimental instead of technical.

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    Atomic reactor to separate hydrogen (from water)?

    Can you explain this? Does it work in the atomic level (hence atomic reactor)? How is the reaction started? Stopped? And the physics of all this is mind boggling (you can work your explanation as classical/quantum/even neo-physics and will try hard to understand it).

    Or is this device similar to fuel injector units? Hydrogen/Methanol injectors are not new anymore. In the last five years there are many such devices (which work) sold for diesel trucks. However they are costly.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jnash View Post
    Actually, there are a lot. From DOE, DOST, Universities and some more. Mr Vinuya, my uncle, just passed away yesterday morning. It so happened that i am now chosen to continue his search for investors. This is the reason why i have been searching the net for any interested party. I am working on a presentation material which is a compilation of a foot high documentations of all tests (and they are signed documents) done on his works. I also intend to create a website that will showcase his works.

    He was really a noble man and for several years negotiating with investors that will accept his noble conditions for the good of common people. I have brought home with me some of the formal tests done particularly by the DOST and DOE. When i am done with it, i will broadcast it. I also intend to continue his patent application last 2006. He was very conservative and have considered almost every aspects; technical, economical, environmental, ease of use, and many more. Now it seems that he had perfected it already and maybe that is the reason why he left this life for he had done his share.
    Honestly, I have seen DOE and DOST so-called verified documentations on gadgets before. I have even witnessed some of the evaluation "testing". All those leaves much to be desired in terms of "testing" and "control".

    On top of that, the tsikot community is generally skeptical against any fuel saving gadget since all that have passed through here never worked as claimed. These would include products like Khaos, Aeronox, turbo-zet, uni-q, etc.

    So don't expect a warm reception in tsikot.com if you cannot fully prove your uncle's work.


    Ask questions, and i will try to answer them as best as i can. I am an engineer myself and had more than ten years teaching engineering sciences in different colleges and universities. His works sound crazy but when explained and when you see how it works then you get to realize how simple it is yet it works in wonderful ways!
    You sound like you don't understand the working principle behind your uncle's device.

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    I am interested in your HMD. I am from Davao City, usap tayo.. or call my landline tel para madali 082-286-5931.

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    Quote Originally Posted by alexpacetes View Post
    I am interested in your HMD. I am from Davao City, usap tayo.. or call my landline tel para madali 082-286-5931.
    Wow! Good luck bro.,- 1.5years ago ang huling contact dito....

    16.5K:weathermanf3:

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    32.28 kms per liter of gas at 40 kms per hour


    bigla na lang dumadating... ETO NA NAMAN

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    try nyo contact c nuvi. baka pareho sila ng product or magkakilala? goodluck! hehe

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    May kanta si Gary V neto eh:

    "Nawawala, bumabalik ......... ETO NA NAMAN!" .......

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