energy conversion project: GeetGenerator

project: started: finished: description:	GeetGenerator 05 / 1999 in process as i saw paul pantone`s experiments on his webpage, i was fascinated and wanted to test the small engine concept. i ordered the geet plans ( 6 weeks before they become public) and bought an old lawnmower. then this project sleeped until christmas 1999. during the millenium panic here in germany, generators were offered that time at near to every shop you can imagine. i bought a 1.4 kW generator driven by a 3.5 HP motor (4 stroke) for about 130 $. i watched the geet newsgroup at onelist.com for a long time and recognised, that the main problem is leakage at the reactor. because of that, i planed to weld as many fittings and connections as possible to avoid leakage and bought the nessecary pipes and fittings. my goal is to achive operation with using heavy fuels like diesel and/or motor oil. i used pipes and fittings with dimensions like the "free geet plans". i read, when using heavier fuel, the fuel should be preheated and i designed a special bubbler as you can see at the drawing. i made the bubbler out of steel and welded it on top of the outer reactor pipe, where the temperature reaches its maximum. the rod has a length of 250mm.
results:	20.03.2000 (first test run): i started the engine using the standard carburettor (gasoline) and the engine ran for about 3 minutes. the bubbler was filled with 50 ml pure diesel. i opend the air valve, while closing the carburettor valve. the engine stopped after 1 minute. after restart the carburettor was disabled (closed valve) 95 % and the system ran for about 15 minutes while experimenting with the other valves and stopped after the 50 ml diesel was burned completely. i recognised a leakage and reassembled the reactor. - the rod was very hot and had a blue/brown color. - the rod was not magnetic 21.03.2000 (second test run): i improved some connections inserted the same rod as yesterday and restarted the engine with 100ml pure gasoline in the bubbler. the system ran for about 10 minutes until the bubbler was empty. i recognised, that i had to adjust the air valve during the 10 min. more and more closer (less air) to run the engine smooth. i put a load ( 500 W ) on and the rpm decreased a little bit ( thats absolutely normal ). the engine had near to the same power as running with the carburettor. the exhaust had normal temperature (not cold) and the exhaust smelled absolutely not clean ( i had a headache the whole following day ) 21.03.2000 (third test run): fuel: 80 ml diesel, 20 ml gasoline (super 98 octane) i started the engine using the standard carburettor (pure gasoline) and switched to diesel/gas after 1 minute. the carburettor was completely disabled (only running on vapor) and the engine ran very smooth. putting 500W load on was no problem, the exhaust smelled a little bit like diesel but was not given off clouds of black or gray smoke. turning off the spark stopped the engine while smoking white out of the muffler - restart was no problem ( without the carburettor ). i recognised, that when adjusting the mixture (air valve) i had to wait 2-3 seconds to get the reaction from the engine. the engine stopped after 15-20 minutes and about 10 ml fuel was left in the bubbler. the reactor seems to have leakage, because i was not able to reach a pressure of 400 mBar ( mike holler told me ) - my reactor showed a maximum vacuum of 820 mBar. 21.03.2000 (fourth test run): fuel: 80 ml diesel, 20 ml water (faucet) fuel: 80 ml gasoline, 20 ml water i started the engine using the standard carburettor (pure gasoline) and switched to diesel/gas/water after 1 minute. the carburettor could not be completely disabled. i added washing liquids to the fuel/water and got an emulsion. i was not able to ran the engine alone with gas/water or diesel/water. the carburettor must be at least 5-7% open. further tests coming up: - finding/fixing the leakage at the reactor - measurement with a gas analyser - shorter and longer rod's - diesel / motor oil mixtures
remarks:	who can tell me, why the engine does not like water?
pictures:	picture 1 - overview of the test click image for 700x500, 140kb if you have any suggestions, comments or enhancement ideas to this device, please mail to bitbo@t-online.de