Diesel and Rotary Engines

ByKori Green

Matthias BraedelBobby 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

• Intake

• Compression

• Combustion

• Exhaust

Benefits

• 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 intakeCompressionFuel injection/combustionExaust

The Wartsila-Sulzer RTA96-C turbocharged two-stroke diesel

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