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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
engine