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In A Lab In Malibu, California...
...On May 28, 2009 - The Proof-Of-Concept MFET Was Started For The First Time...
...The first MFET test run lasted for 1 minute, 35 seconds - just long enough to let the world know that liquid-nitrogen power was going to revolutionize the clean, renewable energy needs of a world that was looking for new ways to cut dependence on non-renewable fuels.
Since that time, the PA3-MFET has run for total of 29 hours and amassed enough data to allow the second generation of MFET - the PR3-MFET - to start design and manufacture. Using lessons learned from the first generation, the second generation is the production prototype and will be used to power generators, pumps, flywheels or any other device that requires a high-speed stream of air.
In A Test Chamber Made Of 2.5cm Thick Plexiglass
...The MFET is tested For Power Output, Efficiency, Durability...
...Using a custom-designed data system to capture performance data, the MFET is tested to verify such parameters a inlet fan speed, turbine speed, expansion chamber pressure, expansion chamber temperature, fuel consumption, vibration and bearing temperature. Over 3 billion bytes of data were collected are still in the process of being analyzed, but they’ve already yielded many improvements to the new generation of Flash-Expansion Micro-Turbines.
Improvements to the Inlet Fan, Expansion Chamber, Center Body and Fuel Nozzles are incorporated into the new PR3-MFET - the next generation MFET - that allow for better flow control, better fuel and Center Body scheduling, and improved ease of manufacture.
With the completion of the PR3-MFET, the Production Prototype will be installed into a test vehicle for further data gathering and improvements as well as proof-of-concept for powering hybrid vehicles.
(In this picture, the compressed air port is at the lower left - sealed off. Compressed air was used to spin up the turbine to test the instrumentation. The temperature and pressure probe is on the right side of the picture to measure the expansion chamber temp and pressure. The spinner has a black piece of tape on it to interrupt an infra-red beam of laser light to count revolutions of the inlet fan.)
In 1986, The First Design For A MFET Was Modeled...
...Using A Mathematical Model On A Desktop Computer, The Liquid Nitrogen Motor Was First Proposed...
...By the Inventor after working with converted liquid-to-gas nitrogen generation systems. Over the years, the mathematical model was refined and continually improved for optimum design, using more sophisticated software and computers. In the fall of 2008, the first pieces were manufactured on a kitchen table in a townhouse in Malibu, California. Having quickly outgrown the capability to produce any more parts, the development operation was moved to 950 square feet of laboratory space down the street from the townhouse. On April 1, 2009 a Patent-Pending designation was granted to Nitro-Turbodyne for the MFET, and on May 28, 2009 - less than two months after the patent announcement, the MFET was first started, running for about several minutes before being shut down to re-route some exhaust tubing from the test chamber. Since that time, the A3-MFET compiled a total of 29 hours of operational time, with speeds increasing from 15% turbine speed to almost 90% maximum turbine operating speed.
Work continues on improvements to the MFET, to incorporate lessons learned from that first spunky little turbine that started it all...
