?Good work Jesse,

Thanks. So this confirms that other companies are moving this way as well.
Paul I think Mazda is way ahead of us. The electric motor assisted turbo
that they are presenting as "NEW" next year at the Tokyo Motor show has been
in their test cars for almost 15 years.  I maintain to keep your eyes open
for the hybrid engine with the turbo electric generator.  Their engines are
going beyond belts towards all electric. I don't know if that includes the
water and oil pump though.  Would think that driving those two items of the
eshaft would be more compact and efficient. For hybrid electrics the
technology is here today.  Market isn't.  Toyota is changing all that
though.

Now if only I could get my hands on some real data concerning rotary engines
running on diesel fuel I would be a happy camper:)

Doug in japan

The big drawback to electric is the less than perfect efficiency of
the generators and motors. 85% times 85% is only 72% while a mechanical
gear box can be up to 98% efficient. Perhaps the generators and motors
could be super cooled with liquid nitrogen :)

Wankel Germany did a lot of work in this area and they got about
.47 BSFC running on spark assisted diesel. I have a bunch of pictures
I took while in Germany.

Paul Lamar

Dave Arbogast wrote:

Can you post the photos and any URL's you have on their work ?

--
-dave
mailto:dave@arb.net
http://arb.net

Paul,

Great pictures.

Last night I came across a company that seems to have developed a more
efficient ignitor and fuel injector.  Does anyone have experience with this
company.  They also claim use of ethanol and diesel in the rotary and other
engines. They seem to be doing some work with the army on drones as well.

http://www.smartplugs.com/engines/rotary/singlerotary.htm

Doug in Japan

Those are glow plugs and I suspect they are spiking the fuel with
nitromethane just like your model airplane engine fuel :)
It is/was called Glo Fuel as in "glow plug fuel". In my younger days 
I was in the DC-RC club with doctor Walter Good the father of the
UAV. Nitromethane is too expensive for large scale use.
Glow plugs are standard equipment used for starting almost all diesels.

Paul Lamar
 
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