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Title: Otto and diesel cycles employing spinning gas

Abstract

An internal combustion engine is disclosed and includes a main cylinder and main piston that are relatively axially displaceable along a main axis to define a variable volume main working chamber. At least one valve is configured to admit air and fuel into the working chamber forming an air/fuel mixture. The main cylinder is configured to cause the air/fuel mixture in the main cylinder to spin rapidly enough to cause a substantive change in the heat capacity of the air/fuel mixture creating a spinning air/fuel mixture. The main cylinder and main piston are configured to compress the spinning air/fuel mixture to create an ignitable spinning air/fuel mixture. The spinning air/fuel mixture is ignited and the main cylinder and main piston are configured to extract mechanical energy from the ignited spinning air/fuel mixture. An exhaust valve is configured to exhaust combustion products from the main working chamber.

Inventors:
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Issue Date:
Research Org.:
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), Princeton, NJ (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1600198
Patent Number(s):
10450943
Application Number:
14/669,936
Assignee:
The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, NJ)
Patent Classifications (CPCs):
F - MECHANICAL ENGINEERING F02 - COMBUSTION ENGINES F02B - INTERNAL-COMBUSTION PISTON ENGINES
Y - NEW / CROSS SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES Y02 - TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE Y02T - CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO TRANSPORTATION
DOE Contract Number:  
AC02-09CH11466; FG52-08NA28553; HDTRA1-11-1-0037
Resource Type:
Patent
Resource Relation:
Patent File Date: 03/26/2015
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
33 ADVANCED PROPULSION SYSTEMS

Citation Formats

Geyko, Vasily, and Fisch, Nathaniel. Otto and diesel cycles employing spinning gas. United States: N. p., 2019. Web.
Geyko, Vasily, & Fisch, Nathaniel. Otto and diesel cycles employing spinning gas. United States.
Geyko, Vasily, and Fisch, Nathaniel. Tue . "Otto and diesel cycles employing spinning gas". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1600198.
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