40 inventive principles / #38
#38 Strong oxidants
What it says
- Replace normal air with enriched air, enriched air with oxygen, and so on, to speed up a process.
- Use a more active environment or agent.
Examples
- Software
- Run critical jobs on dedicated, faster hardware.
- Business
- Put a small tiger team on an urgent project.
- Engineering
- Oxygen-enriched combustion for higher temperatures.
- Everyday life
- Use a pressure cooker.
Where the matrix suggests it
The classic contradiction matrix suggests Strong oxidants in 48 of its 1,248 filled cells. Most often for these conflicts:
- Improving Area of stationary object worsens Stability of the object's composition
- Improving Temperature worsens Area of stationary object
- Improving Use of energy by moving object worsens Loss of time
- Improving Use of energy by moving object worsens Difficulty of detecting and measuring
- Improving Power worsens Area of moving object
- Improving Loss of energy worsens Length of stationary object
- Improving Loss of energy worsens Force
- Improving Loss of energy worsens Temperature