User:Revetec

Personal Information

My name is Brad Howell-Smith. I live in the Gold Coast Australia. I was born in England in 1965. I migrated to Australia in 1967 with my parents, brother and sister. I grew up in Sydney where I went to School at Beresford Road Primary and then Greystanes High School. I left in year 10 to become a Motor Mechanic and finished the course when I was 18yo with a credit pass at Granville TAFE College.

I got married to my lovely wife when I was 22yo and had two children.

I furthered my career specialising in engine management and automatic transmissions mainly. I have completed quite a few courses ranging from Engine Mechanical, Automatic Transmissions, Driveline Vibration, Engine Management in Delco and Bosch, Computer Diagnosis, Electrical, Engine Electrical, Air Conditioning and heaps of others....about 25-30 or so.

My career interests are design and concept, CAD, Research, Engineering and Testing.

My personal interests over the years have been Fast Cars, Car modifications, Engine Modifications, Jet skiing, Fishing and Boating, Computer Graphic arts, Website design, Computers in general, keeping my Marine Fish Tank going (De-stress outlet) and of course my family and pets.

My likes....I like chatting and spending time with my friends, seeing my children grow up.

My dislikes....Well I suppose I hate arrogant people and I hate dealing with unreliable people.

My motivation....People saying it can't be done, when I know it can.

My Revetec Engine Project

My background is Automotive Mechanical Engineering. Back in 1996 I was researching engines and efficiencies. I calculated the losses of a Conventional engine and found many areas for improvement. I came up with a new engine design which I called the "Controlled Combustion Engine", because I was actually working on the combustion side of things. I started to develop the design and took out a patent PCT which is now patented in all of the countries I nominated.

I formed a company called "Revolutionary Engine Technologies Pty Ltd" and raised a little capital to build my first prototype. It ran successfully so I needed to raise more capital to take the project further, and pay for the patents.

I then formed the public unlisted company Revetec Ltd, which was a cut down name of my first company "REVolutionary Engine TEChnologies" and raised further capital. Over the years I have built many prototype engines in several variances of the basic design, each one making vast improvements to the previous versions. My theory of the design held up throughout the development processes.

I then moved my company onto the NSXA stock exchange and changed the company name to "Revetec Holdings Limited" and we have currently about 1,500 shareholders.

In 2006 I was awarded a Federal Government Grant to develop an aircraft variant, and in 2007 it was completed. We road tested the engine in a trike vehicle which showed incredible performance while maintaining a very high level of fuel efficiency. I have also applied for a patent on the new "X Engine" design, which is in PCT phase.

In 2008 I had the X4v2 engine independently tested by Orbital Australia, where the engine achieved a best BSFC figure of 207g/(kW-h) with an average of 212g/(kW-h) although I did repeat the 207 figure a few times, but who's complaining. It was a great figure, and considering the tight time frame and budget limitations was a satisfying feat. The engine took me about 3 months to design from start to finish, and took the two of us another 3 and a 1/2 months to build.

I am now marketing the technology and furthering the designs to production.

My company website is Revetec Homepage

This was a very basic overview of my history with this project and I hope to expand on this profile with more information, when I have time.