On the pappNGE fangroup seems to be some new interesting info from the gasprocessing side
From group: Papp NGE fangroup
https://fbstatic-a.akamaihd.net/rsrc.php/v2/y3/r/0PnClccPFXs.pngIt is likely a safe bet to state that anyone who reads this has read the gas processor description in the Papp patent US4428193. After setting forth to read that information with the full intention to gleam some insight into the preparation of the vital working fluid of the amazing engine we have all seen videos of, we walk away confused and bewildered at best. Upon further reflection, the confusion and bewilderment turns into a feeling of betrayal and disgust. Welcome to the world of Papp, you have arrived! You now posses the knowledge about the process that Papp intended for you to receive – NOTHING!
Both the Papp engine and the gas processing are real. Papp desperately wanted patent protection AND secrecy. I believe Papp devised a plan (at least in his mind) to achieve both.
Within a patent specification, it is better to over describe a process than to under describe it. I once read of a chemical process requiring various ingredients to be boiled in a pot, all the quantities of ingredients, temperatures and durations were meticulously described. Those ‘skilled in the art’ tried unsuccessfully to duplicate the process. It was later determined that a crucial detail was omitted from the original description: the ingredients were boiled in an IRON pot, the iron acted as a catalyst to create the desired reaction and end product.
In order to hide his process in plain sight, Papp exploited the idea of building in and describing erroneous elements within the gas processor. I am not suggesting that this strategy is acceptable within US patent law, just that Papp thought it was acceptable.
There are two main chunks of hardware included: the engine and the gas preparation apparatus. Papp could not, and did not, build the engine, Bob and Tom did that for him. There was no place to add any extraneous and unnecessary components to the engine. But the gas preparation apparatus was a different story. Perhaps, at the component level, Papp did farm out various items to be made for him, but the final assembly was entirely by his hand. So the task at hand was to thoroughly describe an apparatus that had both functional and erroneous non-functional components. This apparatus, if operated properly, would still yield the desired results, the erroneous components simply having no effect at all. Such a successful outcome by someone skilled in the art was unacceptable to Papp.
So an additional layer of deception was needed. Misdescribe the operation of each component, and misdescribe the overall function. He even went to the extreme of describing functions so absurd, that anyone who attempts to make any sense of the thing is repulsed and thus declares the thing as total ‘malarkey’, to use Bob’s description. My personal favorite is:
”…the grid of gauge 255 is subjected to 100% ionization energy and is heated to approximately 165° F. This temperature, 165° F. is related to xenon's boiling point of -165° F. in magnitude but is opposite in sign. Xenon is the heaviest of the five inert gases in the mixture. As the gas mixture flows through ionization gauge 255, the gas atoms that are in excess of their prescribed percentages are burned out of the mixture…”
I believe that, buried within the drawing for the gas processor, there are components (and very few of them) that are actually functional IF operated correctly. I further believe that clues to find these functional components may correspond to the components that have the most vague physical descriptions and mode of operation.
I further believe that the initial direction given to use the apparatus is intentionally misleading and misdirected. For example, once the system is evacuated and flushed with helium (I suspect an argon flush would be better), helium is then admitted to the system and takes a circuitous route through several devices such as ionization head 219, glass tubing coil 259 (adjacent to, but outside of magnetic coils 297 and 299), branch B45 to ionization head 275, branch B28, to ionization head 229, non-directed cathode ray tube 227, high-frequency discharger 225, branch B26 and then to high-frequency discharger 285, directed cathode ray tube 265, focused x-ray tube 263, branch B21, ionization head 221, branch B23, twin parallel magnetic coil 266, and branch B25 into mixing chamber 261. I have left the functional description of each component out to save the reader the misery of reading such material again. All of the above is done while looking for “A spectroscopic flash” to occur….
I suspect, if the apparatus actually has another function other that simply mixing the gases, then starting with helium, and the circuitous route stated, is a total red herring. I suspect starting with the heaviest gas, xenon, would be the proper first step, especially in light of Papp’s obvious misdirection.
I won’t get into what I believe the apparatus actually does, but when viewed with such alternative function, some parts of the apparatus actually jump out as necessary and functional. I am in communication with Bob by email to explore such possibilities.
Thanks for reading.
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Jerry Ryberg I don't know you JB, but reading this, I'm glad you're on it.
4 hours ago · Edited · 1
Mark Hugo John: The mixing of the gasses to achieve a "spectroscopic flash". Do you know what that is about? I'll let you think about it, and then I'll tell you WHAT IT IS ABOUT, what it is FOR and what it refers too. 15 years ago I was reading the "gas nonsense" to a friend of mine, Phd in Physics. When we got to the "spectroscopic flash", he said: "HOLD ON..." And then he told me what PAPP was doing with this. It's one of the REAL things in the patent!
about an hour ago
Jerry Ryberg edu.photonics.com says this: "The light flash, produced in flash photolysis, that is triggered within a second discharge tube by the third electrode. It is to be differentiated from the photolysis flash which is triggered within the first discharge tube and is incident on the photocell." Mark, can you simplify this?
about an hour ago
Mark Hugo Yes, look up "Penning Mixture". (For He and Ne). Then stretch the concept to all the Noble gasses, except Radon.
about an hour ago
Mark Hugo PS: John Penning mixture is the answer. Without it the voltage to run a "Neon light" would be 80,000 volts, not 5000 volts. (I.e., Xray generator). 1 to 2% He in Ne lowers the ionization potential to a resonable level. Papp's description is that of iterating to the LOWEST IONIZATION LEVEL POSSIBLE for the mix of gasses.
about an hour ago
Jerry Ryberg Hmm. Mark, do you think the steps needed to make the gases useable for a successful engine are... does this all make for a practical engine? I guess if Papp did it, with what he knew and the materials and technology available, "we" should be able to do it better, correct?
about an hour ago
friend of mine, Phd in Physics. When we got to the "spectroscopic flash", he said: "HOLD ON..." And then he told me what PAPP was doing with this. It's one of the REAL things in the patent!
about an hour ago
Jerry Ryberg edu.photonics.com says this: "The light flash, produced in flash photolysis, that is triggered within a second discharge tube by the third electrode. It is to be differentiated from the photolysis flash which is triggered within the first discharge tube and is incident on the photocell." Mark, can you simplify this?
about an hour ago
Mark Hugo Yes, look up "Penning Mixture". (For He and Ne). Then stretch the concept to all the Noble gasses, except Radon.
about an hour ago