DIESEL-FUEL SPARK-IGNITED ENGINE TESTED AND CERTIFIED UNDER DOD STANDARDS

Two Stroke International announced the successful completion of extensive tests by the Department of Defense (DOD) on their new lightweight spark-ignited direct-injected multi-fuel engine design.  Using engines built with standard production parts the design was subjected to a battery of performance and endurance tests.  In addition two engines were randomly selected for manual cold and hot manual/pull start tests at the Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Aberdeen, Maryland.  Army engineers, Marine Corps engineers, and DOD Quality Assurance representatives were included in the test program.  

The armed services require lightweight transportable power units that meet the “mono fuel forward” mandate, specifically JP5 and JP8, eliminating gasoline.  These engines can be used to run a vast array of portable equipment.  When lightweight transportable equipment is required the typically heavy and expensive, high-compression, diesel-cycle or compression-ignition engines are unacceptable.  The spark-ignited low-compression lightweight 2si engines fit these requirements perfectly.  

The initial 2si engines will be used to power the water pump and the combustion blower in the military transportable M17 decontamination (steam cleaners) machines used to clean up after chemical and biological attacks.  The units also have a setting to provide hot water for showers for troops in the field.  They are also used in peacetime to clean up after earthquakes and/or other disasters and to minimize the spread of disease.  The units can be hand-carried to areas inaccessible to wheeled vehicles to decontaminate blood-borne pathogens and other contaminants.  Other applications for the engine include lightweight transportable generators, compressors, fire pumps, ATV vehicles, boats, reconnaissance vehicles and drones, and/or anything that requires lightweight power. 

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