BLOOMFIELD, Conn. — September 23, 2024 —LiquidPiston, Inc., a number one innovator of environment friendly inner combustion engine know-how and hybrid energy programs, at the moment introduced that it has begun testing its 10kW heavy-fueled generator prototype.
The genset is powered by LiquidPiston’s 25hp heavy-fueled XTS-210 rotary engine, which itself entered its built-in engine testing part in April 2024.
The corporate has been awarded over $65 million in Division of Protection (DoD) contracts, together with an $8.3 million growth contractwith the U.S. Military, in 2023, to develop a light-weight and ultra-portable generator for the navy. The 10kW generator prototype now being examined is supposed to handle DoD priorities for a smaller footprint and elevated portability.
“That is an thrilling time for the LiquidPiston workforce as we start testing the totally built-in generator prototype, which we’ll proceed to refine forward of delivering it to our DoD prospects,” mentioned LiquidPiston co-founder and CEO, Alec Shkolnik. “Our purpose is to assist handle the DoD’s demanding operational power wants with considerably smaller and lighter moveable energy era programs.”
The LiquidPiston 10kW genset is designed particularly to fulfill the DoD’s moveable electrical genset specs at roughly one-quarter the dimensions and weight of the U.S. Military’s present Superior Medium Cellular Energy Supply (AMMPS) 10kW generator system.
The 10kW system incorporates all parts required for dependable and environment friendly energy manufacturing within the area, together with the XTS-210 rotary engine, a high-performance electrical motor/generator, customized energy electronics, controls, a thermal administration system, a gas tank, muffling, and military-grade packaging. The generator is designed in the long run to be plug-and-play appropriate with at the moment’s AMMPS programs, and it’ll have comparable connectivity and interoperability.
Being smaller and lighter than the DoD’s currently-deployed 5kW and 10kW gensets, and roughly the identical dimension because the presently deployed 3kW genset, LiquidPiston’s 10kW genset may drastically simplify DoD generator procurement and logistics by doubtlessly changing three merchandise with a single product.
Whereas being developed initially with a watch on navy specs, the bottom generator know-how will be utilized commercially in functions working on heavy fuels together with diesel, kerosene, and jet gas, or will be configured to be multi-fuel succesful, appropriate with gasoline and gaseous fuels like propane.
The 10kW genset leverages the XTS-210 engine’s patented Excessive Effectivity Hybrid Thermodynamic Cycle™ (HEHC) design, providing a number of key advantages over present generator know-how:
• Light-weight –
As much as 75 % lighter and smaller than the currently-fielded AMMPS.
• Straightforward to move –
Might be man-portable, as an alternative of requiring a truck, trailer, or forklift.
• Area environment friendly –
Occupies solely ~9 cubic ft of house.
• Heavy- and multi- gas succesful –
Designed for jet gas, the engines have additionally been operated on gasoline, diesel, propane, and hydrogen.
LiquidPiston’s XTS-210 heavy-fueled rotary engine is the results of vital inner analysis and growth, coupled with greater than ten contracts secured with the U.S. Division of Protection and over $20 million awarded in growth funding, together with a $9 million DEVCOM Military Analysis Laboratory award for a Compact Environment friendly Rotary Engine introduced in November 2022. The XTS-210 can be being built-in right into a hybrid eVTOL UAS for a U.S. Military demonstration that can happen later this yr.
LiquidPiston has beforehand raised over $50M in fairness crowdfunding, and is presently working a Reg CF fairness crowdfunding marketing campaign which is scheduled to shut September 27, 2024.
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