Filipinos invent fuel saver
for diesel-powered vehicles

Manila Philippines - Nov. 28, 2005

Two Filipino inventors successfully tested a fuel saver for diesel-powered vehicle. This new invention stands to save diesel consumption by as much as 25 percent.

Teodorico E. Castaneda, an engineer, and his partner Francisco Pagayon, a high school dropout, but a self-made inventor, worked on their unique invention they call "UVX" (universal vortex expander) fuel, power and emission management device for all diesel fuel-fed motor vehicles.

Castaneda said they used the principle of thermo-dynamic to develop the UVX device that saves diesel consumption.

The device is installed in the fuel passage line between the fuel injector and the fuel tank that will improve engine power performance, decrease fuel intake, expels pollutants from carbon deposits, reduce engine's noise and eliminate unburned fuel.

Working on limited budget, Castaneda and Pagayon said their fuel saver invention was on the drawing board for more than one year until they decided to develop the device as prices for gasoline and diesel fuel have become prohibitive.

A believer of the saying that "necessity is the mother of invention," the two Filipino inventors pursued their fuel saver project in earnest until they were able to develop a prototype of the UVX which they installed in their vehicle.

Road tests lasted for more than a year, before they concluded they have made a breakthrough of their invention.

"This project was conceived and initiated in response to the worsening global need and demand for environmental and energy-oriented measures," Castaneda said.

He also said that saving fuel and controlling pollution are matters of national survival.

"The UVX is a fuel saver device that strikes simultaneously at both problems and offers an effectively long-range if not permanent solution to save fuel and contain pollution," Pagayon added.

Pagayon also said that UVX has great potential for use in industrial applications, particularly in the elimination pollution.

He explained that "combustion in an engine happens in two ways: chemical and mechanical process. Either way, 100 percent combustion never occurs – be it gasoline or diesel, because the hydrocarbons are not completely burned and they stick to the engine chamber walls."

"The gaseous form of these carbons emitted through the exhaust pipe is the very destructive carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide and nitrogen oxide pollutants," he said,

Castaneda said that because of these twin problems, Filipino inventors through the years have been working silently to come up with gas saving device and anti-pollution gadget rolled into one.

Because of Filipino ingenuity, they have come up with the UVX, a fuel saver device that can be exported, which the Filipinos can be proud of, Castaneda said.

(PNA)

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