Transcript Document 7117077

Diesel and Rotary Engines
By
Kori Green
Matthias Braedel
Bobby DePriest
The Rotary Engine
• Dr. Felix Heinrich Wankel (1902-1988)
• Born in Swabia Germany (Otto, Daimler,
and Benz also came from Swabia).
• but there are proposals found for this type
of engine as early as the year 1588.
• The rotary is most known today as the
power plant for the Mazda RX-7 and RX-8
automobiles
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The Rotary Engine
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Intake
Compression
Combustion
Exhaust
Benefits
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Fewer moving parts
Smaller engine
Lighter
Less vibration due to the fluid, one
directional motion
Mazda’s Renesis Rotary Engine
The Diesel Engine
• developed by a German engineer named
Rudolf Diesel.
• obtained a patent in 1892
Diesel Engine
Air intake
Compression
Fuel injection/combustion
Exaust
The Wartsila-Sulzer RTA96-C
turbocharged two-stroke diesel
engine