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- Title
ROTARY INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES.
- Authors
ALEXANDRU-CATALIN, MUNTEANU; NICOLAE, BUZBUCHI; LIVIU-CONSTANTIN, STAN
- Abstract
This paper aims to make contributions to the study of one of the oldest aspirations of mankind, that of overcoming its limitations of movement: moving faster and with more load than what it is possible through man's own power. The study of internal combustion engines is a study intrinsically linked to our knowledge of the environment that surrounds us, but especially about matter as an energy carrier, about combustion as a fundamental process of releasing the energy contained in matter, and about mechanical devices that can retrieve and convert to movement the energy released from combustion. Nowadays in propulsion systems the research efforts are concentrated on alternative fuels in classical engines or on methods not involving combustion at all (i.e. electrical propulsion systems). The rotary engines occupy a niche segment of research that has only seen mass production in automotive application developed by the Mazda Company with Wankel-type Renesis engines. This paper summarizes the research in Wankel engines and other ongoing efforts in the development of rotary internal combustion engines with application in land, maritime or air propulsion, giving some details about their performances, advantages and disadvantages when compared to classical piston engines, things that contribute to larger topics like efficiency of power systems on-board mobile platforms.
- Subjects
COMBUSTION engineering; ENVIRONMENTAL impact analysis; WANKEL engine; ROTARY combustion engines; MOBILE operating systems; TURBINES
- Publication
Annals (Constanţa Maritime University), 2014, Vol 15, Issue 21, p93
- ISSN
2067-0427
- Publication type
Article