Hello Paul,
OK, Rotary engines only....
That guy with the six cycle engine has an interesting idea, but
I think that maybe having both the steam and the IC processes
occur in the same chamber might be a problem?

Don't rotary IC engines generate an inordinate amount of heat
that is wasted energy?

Certainly someone has tried the following experiment, right?

Operate a two rotor engine with one rotor running via internal
combustion and one rotor running via steam?

I know very little about thermal dynamics, but...

Separate the fuel delivery system so that gasoline is delivered
to one rotor and distilled water is delivered to the other rotor.

Drain the coolant from the engine, and / or introduce a material
into the water jacket around and between both rotors to better
transfer heat.

Would the steam process absorb enough heat to cool the engine
sufficiently so that the entire cooling system would not be needed?

What percentage of the engine work (and weight) goes into operating
the cooling system.

This experiment shouldn't cost to awful much to conduct right?

With the right encouragement I'd fund this stupid idea myself.

Sincerely,
Dino

I think the six cycle engine depends on the excess latent heat
generated by the gasoline strokes to convert the
occasional shot of water to steam thereby expanding it greatly.
If only one rotor was running on gasoline the other
rotor would be too cool to convert the water to steam.
Also the combustion chamber may be too cool to work
anyway as there are no red hot exhaust valves in there.

A blast tube from the hot rotor CC to the cool rotor
CC might work.

Never the less see: http://www.rotaryeng.net/turbo.html
for more info on recovering some of the waste heat.

I could use some more money to help out building the
rotary turbo compound.

Paul Lamar ...No rotor no motor.

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