Hi, my name is Bob Grunier and I'm a volunteer with the Martin Fleischmann Memorial Project
So this is the full day experiment yesterday on the unmodified Dewalt
Generator that we are going to use to do a test of a thunderstorm generator on and
You can see here that it started on the 10th of May
2024 931 58 and you've got a little bit over eight hours of experimentation here the first section here is
getting the Cirrus 2 mass spectrometer up to Baseline on the air and as you go along there you can see that the air is actually down here
And what you're looking at there is actually the signature of clean
Fresh Santa Cruz air okay, so you've got mass 14 nitrogen atom
15 likely the heavier nitrogen 16 oxygen 17 oh h
18 h2o you have 28 here is n2 29 maybe
Mixtures over here you've got Mass 40s are gone and I think at 32 here you have o2 and all the way over here
You've got 44 and this is a logarithmic scale so you can see how ridiculously low the amount of co2 is in the atmosphere
so that's that and As we go through these spikes are when we're like this one here is where we first
Attempted to add a smoke filter So we have the Cirrus 2 here, and we've got the sampling point 4 and for several hours
We've been taking a background of the air and at the end of that we have placed
some of these raw natural unrefined cotton filters As you can see there and around that we're gonna put this
Alumina felt so the alumina felt is effectively the high temperature thing going on here
And this is the filter to try and get rid of any
P10 particles and stuff of the large lumps of carbon we don't want going into the
Cirrus 2 This was the Alumina felt to try and hold it on so there it is the finished assembly
With the smoke filter in there and the alumina felt. That's going into port 4 over here on the Cirrus 2
spec and This was turning the engine on for the first time
so In theory you're gonna fire it up for this first time. Yeah, yeah
Let's see what it does it's got an electric start if you move that it's gonna move everything off this end
Do you need to turn the idle control on or the run on over here, there's run
I think the board going out. I don't know if this affects
Yeah, and to show that this is brand new we have it on 0.0 hours there
That That flew out Okay, we might have to tie the wire
I I I Does turn it off
If you go here you can see what happens is that as soon as you turn the engine on you really don't have
Fresh air right so when you turn it on quickly you get a whole bunch of unburnt hydrocarbons. That's all those signatures. I think
Petrol is 117 or something that's number you also get some hydrogen down here and the hydrogen there is
likely to be unburnt hydrocarbons from there Being split in the filament in the mass spectrometer and
as you go through we tried a number of different ways to try and attach the
filter so we now have it so that it's looking at the
Exhaust there And To the port for I'm gonna turn it on now
All right, I guess that needs to be on run Ready yeah, go for it
Yeah, it's got some punch doesn't it Okay, so it's a attempt three to run this. We've got a strap across the top of the sampling port
Hopefully it will stay in position this time Yeah
Oh Right, so there we go
So I'm gonna dunk that in some water look at that smoking all right, we're on attempt four now because it just came straight off and
Eventually we got it working and here when it's under idle You can see you did definitely do get more
Co2 and those kind of things up this end. So this is under idle over here. So
You can see the co2 goes from diddly-squat here to quite a lot
But when it's on idle, you don't see any of the unburnt hydrocarbons, okay
You do on switch on right there that switch on so you get unburnt hydrocarbons there, but you know the
Engine warms up and it starts working and regulating and then you get a nice clean burn and then over here
You get a clean burn again. Now what happened over here is we attached a load
So I think where is this? So we had to put a new piece of nickel mesh over it to make it work
Without the filter falling apart. This is to stop large particulars going into the mass spectrometer and clogging up the pipe and the actual
drift tube So the flash arrest is back on. So this is absolutely stock and now we have mark for
sampling arrangement here with nickel 200 mesh here and Alumina foam behind and hopefully this will stop the blast wave coming out from here and causing the
phone alumina foam and we also had this disaster with the screwdriver screwed up the previous attempt to putting some
Foam on there and this is what happened to the last one. It basically blew through everything apart from the very last bit
So that's as it is We shall see if this fares any better
And then here we added a 1.5 kilowatt heater, okay a Sort of radiator. I
Can show you that here. It's down here. That's the radiator there
and When the radiator was on it went from So where's that radiator? That's the 1 kilowatt heater 1.5 kilowatt heater. So when we're there, there's not so many
Hydrocarbons But over here after the heater is added. We've got quite a few hydrocarbons in there
There's a couple little drops down. We have a question as to why that might be but
You still see plenty of hydrocarbons and also hydrogen probably coming from that
and then we turn off and then it drips drifts down to Approximation of the original starting air
With a bit of contamination but here we're close down to the original air over here compared to
little bit of difference there, but So that's that and so what we're gonna do what I'll be looking for really is when it's under load
Do we have less of these unburned hydrocarbons here Coming out do we do we still detect those if so
If you know, it's not doing its job if we don't See those so much then one could argue it is doing a little bit of cleaning potentially with other reservations aside
and then You know, do we see any other things interesting going on down here at the lower levels
So I'll take you out and you can see the engine out here
As it's being modified So, here we go, there's a thunderstorm generator on it and it is going down there
This will be where we are doing our exhaust sampling and come over here. This is the bubbler
okay, and that's the feed in with the UV
Air energizer Not ionizer because it's not high enough energy And come down here and the bubbles come around here around there and then into the
Heat exchanger part of the thunderstorm generator vortex in around there up and then
Out here and into the manifold by this Little custom block that's inserted in there and then get through the engine and then out through
The manifold here and then down and down and down and out of that
So down vortex vortex vortex vortex vortex vortex and likely a lot of vortex out of there
And we'll be doing a whole bunch of tests at this end
Simple tests and complicated tests which might reveal a lot about this device
so there you are and There is Phil on the build Now people want to know what engine it is that's being used. It is the Dewalt
DX DNR 6500 and it certainly seems to be one of the better ones to make a nice clean build as you can see Phil
Unfortunately didn't have a chance to get the angle grinder out and chop it up And there's no hotel room to do that in this time, right
So, thank you very much for your time I'll see you in the next video