Abstract:
Engines and methods execute a high efficiency hybrid cycle, which is implemented in a volume within an engine. The cycle includes isochoric heat addition and over-expansion of the volume within the engine, wherein the volume is reduced in a compression portion of the cycle from a first quantity to a second quantity, the volume is held substantially constant at the second quantity during a heat addition portion of the cycle, and the volume is increased in an expansion portion of the cycle to a third quantity, the third quantity being larger than the first quantity.
Abstract:
Engines and methods execute a high efficiency hybrid cycle, which is implemented in a volume within an engine. The cycle includes isochoric heat addition and over-expansion of the volume within the engine, wherein the volume is reduced in a compression portion of the cycle from a first quantity to a second quantity, the volume is held substantially constant at the second quantity during a heat addition portion of the cycle, and the volume is increased in an expansion portion of the cycle to a third quantity, the third quantity being larger than the first quantity.
Abstract:
A reciprocating/rotary piston engine includes a housing containing a pivotable rotor as well as a series of openings in which pistons move up and down. The rotor is made up of a rotary piston presenting a series of active surfaces between its vertices (two, four, six . . . n active surfaces) corresponding to the number of rotary pistons and with corresponding active surfaces of the reciprocating pistons with alternately linkable chambers with a fuel supply, a carburation and an exhaust gas outlet.
Abstract:
A complex fluid machine has an expansion-compressor device, a pump, and a motor generator, wherein the expansion-compressor device, the pump, and the motor generator are operatively connected and arranged in series. A portion of an outlet side passage formed in the fluid machine, through which the working fluid flows from the expansion device, is arranged adjacent to a portion of a pump outlet-side passage formed in the fluid machine, through which the working fluid flows from the pump, so that heat of the working fluid in the outlet side passage is transferred to the working fluid in the pump outlet-side passage. As a result, efficiency of Rankine cycle for collecting waste heat is increased.
Abstract:
A rotary internal combustion engine is disclosed having a housing with a compression chamber and an expansion chamber which can be separate chambers with separate rotors located therein or a combined chamber with a single double-lobed rotor located therein defining the two chambers. One or more combustion chambers having an inlet and an outlet is located adjacent to the compression and expansion chambers. Rotary valves are located between the combustion chamber inlet and the compression chamber and the combustion chamber outlet and the expansion chamber. Hollow, tubular, piston-like saddle seals are located in the combustion chamber and are urged into sealing engagement with the rotary valves by bias means and pressure in the combustion chamber.