Inventor Raphial Morgado has been invited as a guest speaker at the Oregon chapter of SAE to discuss and demonstrate his Massive Yet Tiny (MYT) engine. Also working on building 5.5-inch versions to demonstrate this 40x power-to-weight ratio engine compared to conventional engines.
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Inventor, Raphial Morgado, stands between a conventional engine and his engine that he says has comparable power output. He will be presenting the engine in
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We've got several updates to report on Angel Lab's Massive Yet Tiny (MYT) engine -- the internal combustion engine with multiple firings in one cycle, producing enormous torque in a small area. With 40 times higher power-to-weight ratio, low parts count, low maintenance, high mechanical efficiency, and low pollution, the MYT™ Engine stands to benefit every engine application.
Guest Speaker at Oregon SAE
The inventor, Raphial Morgado, has been invited by the Oregon Section of the Society of Automotive Engineers International (SAE) to be the guest speaker at their annual event in Portland on March 20 May 15, 2010 from 12-2 pm. Raphial has been enthusiastic about this opportunity to present and defend his revolutionary technology before a group of engineers who know automobile engines.
Rebecca Bauman, an SAE Oregon event organizer, said that the group meets monthly, but that each year they have a special presentation to showcase a technology of national significance. Her boyfriend brought MYT to her attention, and she presented it to the SAE Oregon board in October, and they approved it. "The country needs this right now," she said. They will be announcing and promoting the event to engineers such as from IEEE in Oregon beginning next year. The event will probably be held at a Freightliner conference room in Portland, which seats up to 300 people -- far more than the 40-50 the annual event usually garners. They are expecting a higher level of interest and participation in this event, which is open to the public, with expected admittance fee in the region of $15-$20 to cover expenses and a small snack that will be served.
Raphial has asked us at PES Network to provide live web coverage for that event, encouraging us to charge a small fee, which will go toward helping PES, as a token of his appreciation for the encouragement and contacts we've directed his way. The Massive Yet Tiny Engine is listed in the Top 100 Clean Energy Technologies by PES' sister organization, the New Energy Congress. If you wish to attend this event via the web, including the ability to lodge questions, you may sign up now.
The Oregon SAE group said they would be happy to just see the present 14-inch diameter prototype that runs on compressed air -- something that Raphial showed at the SEMA show in 2005 and the LA Auto show in 2006, then at our Breakthrough Technologies lecture last Spring. The first version of the engine ran on diesel, but was later converted to run on air to enable it to be demonstrated indoors.
More Engines Under Construction
Angel Labs is working on building up to eight 5.5" diameter engines which would run on diesel or biodiesel. While they may not be ready in time for the March May event in possibly a second event later in the day, these could be installed in a variety of applications, from a small vehicle such as a Ford Fiesta, or an ultralight aircraft, or possibly even an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). Raphial is hoping that a defense contractor for the military will let him retrofit one of their UAVs to demonstrate the technology. The present engine in one of the UAVs weighs 145 pounds and has a 55-cubic-inch displacement. The 5.5-inch MYT engine would have a displacement of 65 cubic inches, but only weigh nine pounds, while putting out comparable horsepower.
They would also have a dynamometer on a trailer to be able to show one of the engines in that test mode.
After completing the 5.5" engines, the company plans on building some 8" diameter engines that Morgado says could put out as much as 400 horsepower, while weighing only 37 pounds, yet being able to replace V-6 and V-8 engines.
Dynamometer Data
Raphial also said that they are in process of updating their website. He realized that the dynamometer data document they had posted before was too small to be legible, so they will be rescanning that and uploading it.
He is also remiss about not mentioning that the engineer they had working for them for two years, and who ran the dynamometer tests, is Joe Bunetto, who worked for McLaren Performance Technologies, perhaps the most qualified testing organizations in the world, "specializ[ing] in the design, development, integration, and validation of powertrain systems." He later went on to become the Dynamometer Laboratory Manager responsible for both personnel and the operation, set up and calibration of McLaren’s sixteen dynamometer test cells. He assisted in bringing the facility up to ISO 9000 qualification standards.
At Angel Labs, Bunetto's duties included setup and calibration of the dynamometer test lab, engine build and development of the Angel Labs experimental 'MYT' engine. The prototype engine was approx. 14" x 14" with an 850 cubit-inch displacement. It generated 814 foot-pounds of torque at 800 RPM (124 HP). (See Bunetto bio).
FYI, Previous Presentation
Here is a series of videos I shot last Spring when Raphial demonstrated his compressed-air-powered, 14-inch engine at a Breakthrough Power presentation we gave at San Jose State University.
| Setting Up |
| Sterling Allan on Top 100 Free Energy Technologies; Mighty Yet Tiny Engine |
| Q&A with Raphial Morgado at San Jose State University |
| Mighty Yet Tiny Demo (1) by Raphial Morgado |
| Mighty Yet Tiny Demo (2) by Raphial Morgado |
| Mighty Yet Tiny Demo (3) by Raphial Morgado |
| Mighty Yet Tiny Demo (4) by Raphial Morgado |
| Mighty Yet Tiny Demo (5) by Raphial Morgado |
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Danger Will Robinson - I smell a Rat ? !
I assume you have seen a mechanic's air powered wrench often used to take off wheels on a car at a place that sells tires.
??You can get a lot of force out of a tool the size of a one quarter horse power electric drill if you supply it with the energy from compressed air supplied by a compressor much larger.
????But if this engine does not run on fuel then he is just looking for investment money he will be stealing.
??Where is the running ? former diesel model ?
It is very simple, If he does not have a working gas or diesel model to demonstrate, Then he has Nothing.
Not to be impolite but absent a convincing video of the test engine running on any fuel, especially diesel, I don't believe it. Why "convert it" to run on compressed air for demos? Why not leave it alone and run it in the parking lot on a dyno test stand? Why not make another prototype out of transparent plastic and run that on compressed air? The claim just makes no sense. But I guess we'll see whether or not the promised prototype see the light of day. Offhand, I'd predict they never will. Or if they do, they won't run very long.
I saw that they were saying that compressed air was working better for testing because (I'm paraphrasing) when (not if) it broke, it was easier to see what broke first. I too would really like to see an actual working engine. The smaller ones seem like a really good step. If they are powerful enough for a car, why would you want to start with something bigger?
Top GM engineer Louis Faix saw it run on fuel, and NASA awarded MYT a top award for an engine that ran on fuel. AND he's not asking for your money so where's the Beaf? the meet of the matter is that it takes money to make things happen and you can just sit and wait for things to happen or help make them happen.
I have setup a donation fund to help make the MYT happen here and now in America for Americans, How many of the lost jobs can we replace or creat new if we could throw away the old engines and install a small new one that get 100-150mpg? Could we save our American economy? I think so and it is worth a try. for us.
This is a typical example of an idea that won't make it to market. If there are so few moving parts needed and he still cannot build more than one engine or demo an engine running on any type of fuel, why keep dreaming? We have thousands of places in America able to manufacture examples of this engine and test them on a dyno for weeks. That to me will prove it's for real.
"Top GM engineer Louis Faix saw it run on fuel"
Sure. And I saw pigs fly.
" AND he's not asking for your money so where's the Beaf? "
What's "Beaf"?
I agree, I have to see this work the combustion pressures are very high, what's going to hold it together,at higher rpm? Show me! Right now it's smoke and mirrors.Diesel combustion pressure's are huge.Where there's high pressures there's high temperatures too.
There was a video out there where it was running on Diesel. It was on Youtube a couple of years ago.
The MYT HP claims are bogus. Their own 150psi "air motoring" dyno results prove it: naturally aspirated projected horsepower is approx 134 HP, maybe up to 200HP if it were to be performance tuned. It's hard to tell if they are trying to scam or just misguided zealots. Their mistake is a 4:1 miscalculation of displacement. Swept volume = 212 cubic inches (not 848). The unusual mechanism includes an effective 4:1 gear reduction of the output shaft vs. cycling of chambers. In other words - it acts like an 8 cylinder 212 CID engine with a 4:1 gear reduction on the output. As a result, the torque is 4X higher, but rpm 1/4 lower, and each of the eight 26.5 cubic inch chambers runs a conventional 4-stroke cycle. No breakthrough here. Additionally, there are many serious engineering problems with sealing, thermal and kinematic aspects. Here's a nearly identical engine: www.rotoblock.com , and they aren't making astronomical power claims, and they've have actually run them on gasoline!
If you want to sign up for the presentation, you can do so at SAE's website by looking for Oregon SAE upcoming events.
@ Debunker,
I've removed your comments as I have found that they are in flagrant violation of the facts that you have available to you.
For example, you denigrated Louis J. Faix, saying he was just a drive train mechanic, when it very clearly states in his profile that he was involved in engine design for Chevrolet, etc.
angellabsllc dot com / LJF-history.html
You also said that the displacement is not 848 cubic inches, but just 212. Louis Faix stated clearly how he calculated 848 cubic inches, and he knows what he is talking about.
angellabsllc dot com / Louis_J_Faix.html
You also said Louis never saw the MYT engine running on fuel. That is not true either. In the above statement, he said he saw the engine running on ether, after being brought up to speed with an air compressor.
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Though his comments have been removed I felt that it was necessary to offer a couple of basic observations explaining why debunker's was wrong in his assessment of the MYT engine.
The first crucial point that he missed is that the MYT engine utilizes a solid shaft which is both the mainshaft and the output shaft all in one, this being the fact the output ratio physically has to be 1:1, I've seen demos and videos of the engine under test and it has always been coupled directly to the dynamometer without any type of gear box or transmission to multiply the torque from the ouput shaft.
The second key point is the engines internal gearing which allows the gear train to spin at 4 times the speed of the mainshaft, this is a multiplier not a reducer this is how the engine ingenioulsly completes 2 complete 4 cycle events per piston in 1 turn of the mainshaft a fact that debunker couldn't or wouldn't grasp, this is why he kept making the mistake of dividing the actual 848 cubic inch
In observing all of the comments it is easy to understand how the average person would be skeptical of the claims of the MYT engine after all in the many years that the internal combustion engine has been around with just modest gains to be had year after year and then to hear Raphial announce that he has invented an engine that is 400 percent more efficient and that's just pumping capacity not even getting into lower friction, lighter weight, etc. This is difficult to accept but all of the facts are there and I've been in the automotive industry my entire life and can personally attest to Lou Faix having impeccable qualifications to perform the study of the MYT engine and having NASA giving the award to Raphial is a fairly good confirmation of Lou's results!
Ralpha I'm waiting but still need 2 engines pefer an 6in with a generator and a 8in for amotorhome so I can go show ur great invetion to all of USA people thank and please have them ready by the First of Sept. THANK YOU VERY VERY VERY VERY MUCH
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