How_A_Rotary_Engine_Works

How A Rotary Engine Works Have you ever wondered why the only kind of engine used is the 4-stroke internal combustion, if there are any other alternatives to it' There is a little known engine called the Wankel rotary engine. This engine is very unlike the regular 4-stroke internal combustion engine used in most cars; it uses no pistons. “Felix Wankel conceived the idea of a rotary engine in 1924” (Marr) which re received a patent for in 1936. Since then the rotary engine has bin developed by companies such as Mercedes-Benz, Chevrolet, Yamaha, Suzuki, Cessna, Artic Cat, Nissan and Mazda in the 1970s and 80s for motorcycles, cars, snowmobiles, airplanes, chainsaws, boats and even compressors and air conditioners. But only Mazda has continued to develop the engine and will include it in its upcoming sports car the RX-8. Since it the rotary engine uses no pistons, the same volume of space (the cylinder) alternately does four different jobs: intake, compression, combustion, and exhaust. The pressure of combustion is contained in a “cylinder” formed by an apex of a triangular rotor (instead of pistons), and part of the housing. The rotor travels in a partially oval shape, keeping the apexes in contact with the housing, this forms rotor, engine, combustion, rotary, port, intake, housing, shaft, piston, one, chamber, three, passes, exhaust, different, apex, very, spark, part, output, lobe, four, wankel, volume, two, pistons, parts, mixture, lobes, internal, gasses, cycle, compression, begins, air/fuel, unique