SmartPlug™ Technology
The patented McAlister SmartPlug™ is a hydrogen fuel injector-igniter for combustion engines. It replaces the traditional spark plug. SmartPlug™ allows any combustion engine, furnace, boiler, and turbine to run on clean hydrogen.
Convert Any Existing Engine Into a ZEV
SmartPlugs™ enable all 4.1 billion existing vehicles & generators with Internal Combustion Engines (auto, truck, rail, marine, and aircraft) to be transformed into Zero-Emissions Vehicles (ZEVs), that run on clean liquid Hydrogen fuel.
SmartPlugs enable all 1.5 billion existing vehicles & generators with Internal Combustion Engines (auto, truck, rail, marine, and aircraft) to be transformed into Zero-Emissions Vehicles (ZEVs), that run on clean liquid Hydrogen fuel.
Air Cleaning / Climate Change Mitigation
SmartPlugs™ Eliminate Urban Air Contaminants
SmartPlugs™ inject and combust hydrogen at a controlled rate to reduce or eliminate urban air contaminants such as diesel exhaust, soot, carbon particulates, microscopic debris (prions, bacteria, viruses) pollens, and other smoke particles including oxides of nitrogen.
Such air cleaning by stratified hydrogen combustion can be achieved in a furnace, boiler, or internal combustion engine such as a gas turbine or piston engine. Shed tests show exhaust air that is cleaner than intake air.
More than 4 billion existing combustion engines now producing hundreds of billions of horsepower can utilize SmartPlug™ stratified hydrogen combustion to clean the air, last longer and provide improved performance when needed. We deliver clean air in transportation, electricity generation, industrial and agricultural applications by SmartPlug™ Stratified Hydrogen Combustion.
- Overcome local pollution to mitigate global climate changes
- Increase fuel efficiency by approximately 30%
- Increase engine power and longevity
- Adaptively maximize engine performance per cylinder in real-time
- Speed of light sensor feedback of combustion events
- Limit peak temperatures for longer engine life and no NOx emissions
- Connect SmartPlug to the net to monitor and prevent harmful emissions
SmartPlug™ Multi-fuel Injector-Igniter
Transitions Existing Engines to Cleaner Fuels
McAlister’s SmartPlug™ fuel injector can be scaled from very small engines, like lawnmowers, to large automotive and trucking engines, and very large engines in electricity generation, marine, and rail locomotive applications.
Hydrogen is the Cleanest Fuel
We hold the vision that more than a billion existing engines can be practically retrofitted to run on hydrogen and thus clean the air (removing carbon particulates and smog) as they operate.
This conversion can powerfully reverse the damage that has been done to the environment during the first two hundred years of the carbon-burning industrial revolution.
Many types of engines and devices can be retrofit with SmartPlug™ for clean hydrogen operation:
- Transportation engines range from motorcycles, cars and trucks to trains, ships, and planes.
- Electricity generators include both internal combustion gas turbines and external combustion steam engines. These presently produce about the same amount of CO2 emissions as transportation applications.
- Industrial furnaces, boilers, and heaters can also be converted to hydrogen fuel.