1kW Diesel Burning Man Portable Hybrid Electric Power System using Catalytic Fuel Ignition Technology

"The Army has indicated significant need for lightweight, heavy fuel engines for use in a wide variety of battlefield missions. The Catalytic Ignition System (SmartPlugTM) developed and patented by Automotive Resources, Inc. (ARI) promises to fulfill theArmy's "One Fuel Forward" requirement without the need for replacing the gasoline engine with a new engine design. ARI had demonstrated the ability to manually start a lightweight, heavy fuel, direct injected, two-stroke, engine using SmartPlugTMtechnology. During Phase I, ARI successfully demonstrated a low cost conversion of an off-the-shelf Honda 1kW generator set with the following desirable characteristics:lightweight, asynchronous generatorsmall-displacement four-stroke engine,carbureted, heavy fuel operation(Jet A or JP-8),-25F cold rope startequal performance with gasoline baselineThe SmartPlugTM will allow new and existing engine designs to run well on heavy fuels, due to the powerful, catalytically induced, compression ignition event. The SmartPlugTM eliminates all rotating and high voltage parts in the ignition system, and iscompatible with conventional and heavy fuels. This innovative catalytic compression ignition system shows great promise as the enabling technology for converting new and used lightweight gasoline engines to heavy fuel, without any changes to the basicgasoline engine"