Patent ID: 8794217

Claim:
A pre-ignition fuel treatment system for an engine that combusts a fuel to produce power and an exhaust gas, and having a reactor that passes a stream of the exhaust gas past a stream of the fuel, the system comprising: a first structure comprising a first housing with an inner wall surface having coherent surface features that entrains the fuel stream to travel in a first flow pattern; a second structure comprising a second housing with an inner wall having coherent surface features that entrains the exhaust gas stream to travel in a second flow pattern; wherein at least one of the first and second flow patterns comprises a coherent-structured turbulence, and wherein the coherent surface features on the inner walls of the first housing have sizes that are substantially large enough to be identified by naked eyes and comprise a pattern of features selected from the group consisting of bumps, dimples, cavities, ridges, grooves and wedges.