The 5 stroke engine with water injection // Tested in Golf MK5 🤯
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- Опубліковано 17 тра 2024
- In this video we analyze the engine invented by Gerhard Smith.
Did you know this 5-stroke mechanism?
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An additional process (the second expansion) doesn't make this engine a 5-stroke. The intake and exhaust are overlapping, so whole cycle still completed in just 4 strokes.
True odd-stroke engines are impossible because a stroke is either a decrease or increase in volume and you have to get back to the original state.
imo if its not 4 stroke then its 6 stroke at best
usual 4 stroke into expansion and afterwards exhaust, the optional water injection is part of the expansion stroke.
There are two cylinders. Thus, there are 4 strokes + 2 strokes = 6 strokes, but two overlap, giving 5 stokes. The process takes 5 strokes: Intake, Compression, Power, Transfer&Power, Exhaust. "Strokes" relate to processes.
This gets more complex and debatable when two different RPMs are used, such as in the engine I'm developing. The induction pistons runs at 1/2 speed, so the engine has eight strokes: Intake, Intake, Compression, Compression&Transfer, Compression, Power, Transfer&Power, and Exhaust.
no this is not a5 stroke motor, and you can get a 4 stroke single cylinder engine, i would believe you that this a 5 stroke engine but we would both be wrong@@RichardLewisCaldwell
I suppose it would be six strokes from the perspective of the fuel/air mixture.
This is just like a compound twin expansion steam engine. The engines on the Titanic had three expansion cycles
and then you add a free-floatin turbine to the exhaust and a sterling to the heated body.
Or really just like any steam engine.
There aren't exactly any cylinders that do combustion in a steam engine after all.
It's fascinating how technology goes around and comes around.
And look what happened to that
@@dancho0012 The turbine powered, Lusitania didn't fare that much better😅
A compound engine using the same double expansion design (three cylinder with the centre being used for additional expansion) was built by the German Deutz company in 1879.
A five cylinders compound engine was built by the Frenchman Forest-Gallice who patented in 1890.
Rudolph Diesel, father of rolling coal patented his three cylinder double expansion engine in 1897.
Edward Bales of Illinois patented his three cylinder compound engine in 1897
The three cylinder Crossley-Atkinson (of Atkinson cycle fame) compound engine was patented in 1903.
These designs all suffered the same problem as the one in this video is likely to suffer; the loss of heat from the gases being passed from the high to low pressure cylinder coupled with the additional friction of the additional cylinder negated the efficiency benefits.
Gerhard Smith was very late to the game.
And all of those ideas came from the steam engines of the time. With a small piston for HP steam and a larger one for low pressure steam.
Even steam turbines work on this same principle, but with less mechanical parts.
The FIAT twin air engine is the only practical way of using an Atkinson cycle engine in a vehicle, by using it for only "part throttle".
There we go, i was wondering why this wasn't thought of before, as it's effectively just an in-block turbocharger in piston form, connected directly to the crankshaft.
Makes sense this idea is about as old as the concept of super/turbochargers.
It's just more power instead of more air, after all.
@@joejoejoejoejoejoe4391 Loads of hybrids use Atkinson cycle engines.
@@agt155 So to make the usual Atkinson cycle engine you have to add a generator/motor, 1/2 a ton of battery and a load of control electronics, that all add expense along with the weight. Because the valve controlled FIAT system can instantly go from Atkinson cycle to Otto cycle, it can provide both high and low power efficiently, without having to add a motor and battery for low power.
The double speed cam just looks like extra complexity, why not a common shaft with a double lobe profile
The animation shows it spinning at the same speed, or am I seeing things?
You’re right. It is “silly”. But buying rather precise parts is easier than designing and milling custom parts.
The same reason the four-banger was altered to be a two-banger with a klugey re-expansion ‘cylinder(s)’.
Good idea.
I just came from the wiki. I want to quote the cycles here, and offer a criticism:
1, induction 2, compression 3, power 4, exhaust expansion 5, final exhaust
Thats fine, if all the cylinders moved in parallel. When the final exhaust is the expansion cylinder going upward, that would imply that the power cylinders are going downward at the same time. So cycles 1 and 5 are effectively the exact same cycle. Its still a 4 cycle engine, with an expansion cylinder. Not a 5 cycle.
They don't call it a 5-cycle engine. They call it a 5-stroke engine. Intake, compression, expansion 1, expansion 2, exhaust.
This is essentially an atkinson/miller cycle engine with two pistons, but with the vibrational balance of a four piston engine. The "extra moving parts" problem can be fixed by simply increasing the lobes on the camshaft, an extra camshaft and gear/chain mechanisms are not needed. The current miller cycle engines are limited by the stroke of their pistons; to make the expansion stroke double the length of the compression stroke, you can only use half the stroke for intake, limiting your power greatly. This engine solves that problem in a very intelligent way. I would have loved to see further development for this, I think there's incredible potential for high performance and high efficiency engines here. With enough funding it could start a sports car Renaissance.
I'm not convinced this actually solves the limitations of the Miller cycle. You're going from 4 partially filled cylinders of air to 2 full cylinders of air, which isn't really allowing you to get more air when you're still moving 4 cylinders of mass around. Also, instead of over expanding within the first cylinder, you're wasting some energy going through the transfer pipe.
@@Appletank8 you are correct, however the video claims 130 horsepower out of 0.7 liters of displacement. In theory, you can use a pseudo v8 configuration with larger cylinders for some crazy power with the fuel consumption of an economy car
@@ulasgursoy2838 Is it really 0.7 L of displacement though? It's still carrying around 4 pistons of weight and friction, and it's practically unusable at low RPM. It wouldn't be that far off from a 1.4L engine expelling half of its intake.
A similar engine is the 1.5L M15A-FKS, which gets 123 HP at 40% efficiency, and is usable across all regular RPMs. I'm not seeing that much advantages in this 5-stroke engine here, unless they have an efficiency chart that points out its efficiency range.
OK. Thanks for the info. So is this going to be good on all parameters for an ordinary consumer level car - cheaper, better?
Yeah I'm thinking if it "only improves efficiency under high load," then like... just make a high-revving lightweight version for sports cars, where its drivers will be happy to rev it to the moon and get decent fuel economy doing so. Economy sports cars would be fun.
Like others said, it's basically a double expansion engine. It was sometimes utilized in steam engines, but mostly not: if you pull back the johnson bar, this allows steam to work by expanding inside the cylinder instead of just pushing the piston with its pressure, and so by the time the steam is exhausted there's simply no pressure left to drive another cycle of expansion. In other words, double expansion only allows for more efficiency at maximum power setting, and doesn't do anything otherwise. That's fine on a power plant or a sea-faring vessel, but in motor vehicle applications you don't usually even use the maximum power setting, and the added complexity and weight isn't worth the benefit of slightly reduced fuel consumption when you're pushing full throttle. Which is why this extremely old technology which is also a no-brainer to add to a piston-based engine haven't found its way into production cars and trucks. In ICEs specifically there's an additional array of problems such as carbon buildup which can't be self-purged from a cylinder that never burns fuel.
Well thought out, I hadn't considered the carbon in the expansion cylinder, it would be like a gdi engine's valves not having the fuel flowing across them to clean them.
Good point. Fortunately, using a piston-topper to segregate the hot gasses from the piston allows surfaces to run above the temperature where carbon buildup occurs. “Engineering Explained “ has a good video. Search “Italian tuneup”.
I like to pull back on the old johnson from time to time, myself...
This engine only work at maximum throttle, should fitted to a race car, should see some benefits.
I would be interested to see how this compares to a turbo 4 stroke. With the added points of failure and rebuilding of a crankshaft, it seems like a tall order when compared to current forced induction methods. The concept is interesting, regardless, and the video well put together.
Ahh yes. The text to speeh. That's how you know it is quality, and accurate.
Very clever, it's easentially it seems to me the same concept as the power recovery turbines on the wright turbo-compound radial engines, where the exhaust spun a turbine that turned a shaft and put that power directly back into the crank...
Omg just discovered your channel, it's so good quality. Thanks for the sharing of knowledge and making the research job that easy
We don't make these because the exhaust strokes themselves (the upward motion of the 4th cycle) of the smaller cylinders are what drive the 3rd piston, not just expansion alone.. you'd need a LOT of wasted expansion from the smaller two to get any meaningful power out of the 5th stroke.. if you're wasting enough expansion on your power strokes to drive a whole separate 3rd piston as a 5th stroke without any frictional and inertial losses, I still don't see any advantage other than packaging. It's kind of a silly proposition. This is basically a turbocharger turned inside out.
And you're far better off with that turbo, which is essentially doing exactly the same thing but in a much more effective manner; Harvesting the wasted heat energy from exhaust gasses.. Without the extra friction and inertia loading of an internal 3rd-piston 5th stroke
Exactly, this also adds a lot of unneccesary weight and moving parts needing to be balanced with even more moving parts.
Yeah, but a turbo doesn't drive the crankshaft, it just decreases the energy from the compression stroke necessary to compress the mixture to the desired compression ratio. So i don't think this engine on its own is less efficient than a conventionnal downsized turbo 4-stroke, but if you add the fact that an additionnal turbo on the 5-stroke takes further advantage of the residual pressure in the exhaust gas, you could potentialy have more efficiency. And the final advantage is the water injection : turbo and/or 3rd piston are not very good at recycling heat (as they both use exhaust pressure), whereas water injection is, making the engine even more efficient. Of course, as water injection cools the cylinder, it decreases the pressure of the exhaust gases in the 3rd piston and the turbo (thus loosing a part of their benefits), but there could still be a net efficiency gain, especially if you use highly heat conductive materials to drive the heat from the power cylinders to the 3rd, in order to recycle it more.
Other ways to achieve this could be to make traditionnal turbo 4 stroke engines, but with the 2 center pistons dedicated to collect the heat from the two others (they would only be injected with air/water mix), which would then allow the motor to use the two steam pistons as coolant, instead of a pump driven radiator, and allow the water to be condensed and recycled as their exhaust would be only steam and air.
Turbines are less efficient than pistons.
The animation is off, the exhaust valves of the middle cylinder should open every time the middle cylinder rises, they now only do so every second time the middle cylinder rises. The voice over says the middle cam rotates twice as fast as the normal cams, but the animation shows it rotating at the same speed.
The concept of running an extra camshafts seems a lot harder that simply putting a double lobe for the centre piston
That's a genuinely clever idea.
I thought the same thing
STEAM ENGINES ARE BACK BABY
Glad to see one of these new engine designs covered with more than simply glowing reviews and adspeak.
I'd love to see an exhaust turbine similar to the posche 919 added. The 5 stroke engine design has fascinated me for years and i believe it has a future as an efficient generator design
I read about this engine on Wikipedia but couldn't understand how it worked, thank you for explaining it , more research needs to be done on it
Love these animations!
What’s the temperature of combustion vs exhaust on regular 4 stroke vs this 5 stroke so we can understand the efficiency delta?
which program you use for the animated engines?
Adding a turbo is effectively the same thing as it extracts the energy from the exhaust to create more power, and is WAY more simple than this design.
Turbo relies on also putting more fuel in the combustion chamber to accommodate for the increased air density (more power => more fuel consumption).
Like the turbo, the center piston uses exhaust gas and pressure difference to operate. However, this engine doesn’t need extra fuel to further assist the turning of the crankshaft (more power => same fuel consumption => more efficient)
@@oscarschott8905 while yes it is not exactly comparable, you can just use a smaller displacement engine and get the same power output.
What it's actually similar to are Miller Cycle engines. They expel a portion of the intake in order to have a longer power stroke. This ""5-stroke"" has half the intake for the same "expansion" ratio, or 0.7L of compression, 1.4L of expansion.
You could probably get away with heating the intake with the exhaust since you have the extra expansion. The problem with doing this on regular engines is it effectively increases the compression ratio by increasing the temperature of the air without increasing the expansion ratio. So more work is done to compress the air without actually getting that work back through expansion. This has shown to increase the efficiency of turbine engines.
Hi! Some years ago I made water injection system on my VW Golf Mk2. No fuel economy. For right operation this setup needs control temperature of the engine before we can inject water, because if engine temperature is low, we get situation of no combustion/ motor stops. In F1 engines in old days they use water injection only in extreme temperature/ pressure/ knock prevention situations. This thing works only as engine horsepower booster when engine is hot. Be happy! :)
I used ultrasonic fog in a TDI! 0,2 - 0,3 l water p.h.
- 0,5l/100km Diesel
smoother engine run
better accleration
less carbon pollution
@@svendittmann3105you should have tried scotch mist.
@@svendittmann3105what device did you use to produce the fog?
so you made an engine that can run on water, sort of, but water costs as much as fuel? Did I hear that right?
It's because you don't just need regular water but distilled water, as using regular water with lots of impurities in it will ruin the cylinder real quick as mineral deposits starts building up on the cylinder walls.
3:21 a similar system was in the F-80 Shooting Star where water was injected into the exhaust of the jet where the water turned into steam providing additional thrust
First thing I thought when I saw the diagram was a steam triple expansion engine, which is suppose this is a variance of...Speaking of which, couldn't said steam on the water injection be recycled, again such as the old ship engines did?
Good explanation
This channel has no business being this small. These videos are so good I wait for them to drop all the time
The next time my head gasket leaks I'm gonna call it "water injection"
🤣
What an excellent explanation! Showing all the different models of this idea felt like an adventure! I love the simple conclusions at the end. The friction and complexity remind me of the opposite type of engine used the Sachsenring Trabant 601. Boy I want to see that animated so bad.
I love the efforts taken. Hopefully the research dollars will pay off.
How do we suppress 2nd order & 3rd order harmonic balance?
its so similar to a steam engine, a double expansion or triple expansion, where a small piston initially has the high pressure, then a second piston (much larger ) has the exhaust of the first cylinder, which would otherwise be wasted
Fantastic, somebody made a proto of my old drawing from 1991🎉
The exhaust gases need to still have enough energy to keep the after treatment hot. Otherwise it can never pass the current EU6 and defiantly not EU7 requirement. There legislations are actually extremely hard to meet even with a regular 4-stroke engine!
i suppose they could insulate the exhaust channels and not route coolant through the center cylinder's walls
@@manitoba-op4jx yep, and egt regulated by amount of water injected
Its basically a internal combustion engine version of a compound steam engine. very interesting video.
Reminds me in similar concepts to the scuderi.
Where u can find this type of engine?
Also, the expansion piston could be coated to retain heat. Something you don't want with a normal shiny aluminum piston. As that leads to pre-ignition under normal conditions. But the expansion piston, if it retains heat, would be more efficient at converting the water to steam instantly.
To further enhance efficiency, a catalytic converter can be added to the manifold that feeds the central cylinder. That would add heat to the flow into tue center cylinder and enhance the water injection as well.
Could be tricky to actually pull off with the limited space available over the short transfer port lengths but it makes thermal sense to me. It seems to me that the shorter the transfer track the better.
EDIT: Given that the engine is already has a restricted effective RPM range I suspect that there would be an ideal transfer port length that would be able to take advantage of harmonic gas wave effects like a tuned length extractor exhaust system. That may even enable room and gas dwell time sufficient for your catalytic converter idea. The narrow usable RPM range would be likely to become even skinnier though.
To you talking about? Cats don’t add heat to anything, quite opposite it takes away heat and energy 😅
@@ddjohnson9717 the chemical reaction that is catalyzed is exothermic. Cats introduce a flow restriction though, thats where they sap performance especially because the extra heat produced is normally always completely wasted.
In this twin expansion design though, that energy goes to enhancing efficiency
Edit: some people prefer dogs anyway.
@@lordchickenhawk the port should be built into the head, I'd think. The catalyzer needs to be an insert that fits in place.
If you are converting a 4 banger then maybe simplicity is a better option.
@@lcambilargiu Yeah, I think so too... like I said, space would be the tricky bit, either way.
And the flow restriction you mentioned to ddjohnson would present further difficulties. I like your idea but I think it would be very difficult to it pull off in actual practical application.
Toyota hybrids operate on the Miller-Atkinson cycle; they just close the intake valves later to make the expansion longer than the compression with good efficiency at low speeds. No need for an extra cylinder :)
Americans are very good at "inventing" things thirty years after someone else invented them elsewhere.
Good Day : At time about 3:23 "Water Injection" what an excellent idea . To get that clean de-mineralized water , all you would need is a "Water Maker" . These are small and compact and can also be seen in regular use on board Navy ships .
The idea of a small range extender generator will become much more popular very soon.
I think the Argentinian pendulum engine is the best non mass produced engine variant. Oil isn’t required because there is no friction and 100% goes to turning the crankshaft instead of rubbing the cylinder wall
Good to test for outboard like water sports
Thank goodness we still have minds to r&d in our time
Any sources to confirm any of this?
It seems to me that this cycle could also be used in combination with your previously described Mazda 2-stroke engine. In other words a two piston engine design, with the small cylinder operating according to the Mazda 2-stroke cycle, exhausts into the large cylinder using water injection as described in this video. Would that make it a 3-stroke engine? ;-)
Nice idea.
Get rid of the valves on the central piston & just have exhaust ports at the bottom of the cylinder like in the 2-stroke diesel, use a V3 design for more direct flow & shorten the exhaust travel into the cylinder & don't upsize the exhaust cylinder.
smart
Brilliant
Another ingenious solution to an unasked question .
I would think using the middle piston to compress intake gasses before pumping them into the smaller pistons like an inboard supercharger would be more effective than using the exhaust.
It would improve power, but it would also increase fuel consumption rather than decreasing it, which is the goal of this design.
This engine is very interesting. It shows that there is more researches on the piston engine. Why isn't there more researches on the turbine engine for vehicles?
2:49 That seems kinda unnecessarily complicated. Why not use the normal camshaft with double lobe cams to achieve twice the actuating frequency?
Better to run the second expansion cylinder on something like 1-way valves like reed valves. Also, to combat the loss of efficiency at low load and the lower pressure/energy causing turbo lag, make the second expansion cylinder the same size as the normal cylinders instead of 2x the size. Also make the whole engine in general "under square" for thermal efficiency. Also, for better frictional efficiency, you could make the whole thing a Taurozzi Pendulum engine.
Making the second expansion cylinder the same size as the primary cylinders defeats the point. The reason it's larger is because it requires less mechanical force to push a smaller chamber's volume into a larger one. if they were the same size, the force pushing back on the primary cylinder would completely negate any force imparted on the secondary cylinder, and you would run at less efficiency than if you didn't have the secondary cylinder at all because it would just be dead weight.
These would make for great small generator engines, especially stationary ones. Even better on small long range ships since they already would need a water purification system.
If you remove the water injection, they make for great airplane engines. If used on cars, they could be used as gas over electric hybrid vehicles similar to the Audi Dakar racecar.
As other commenters pointed out, the catalytic system would have to be built into the block as the exting low temperature water-contaminated exhaust would not be compatible with traditional systems.
Another idea would be to us the waste pressure and heat to drive a separate turbine as a multi-cycle engine. Again, this would likely only be most efficient at specific engine speeds and would increase in efficiency with scale. A good in between would be to use a turbo as in a car engine, it's very nearly the same concept, yet less complex and more flexible.
And now F1 uses a recovery turbine to charge a battery.
3:52 basically water is the new NOS 🤣
I'm curious as to what the cooler gasses do for catalyst efficiency.
The biggest issue I see with this engine is that the central LP cylinder gases it’s cam timing locked to the HP cylinders. This prevents it from having variable expansion ratios, giving the engine only a small band of high power and high efficiency.
If you put catalytic converters between the cylinders, such that the exhaust from the HP cylinder goes thru the CC before entering the LP cylinder, that might improve both efficiency and emissions. My 2c.
I attempted to patent exactly this, some 15 years ago (totally oblivious that it was aready in development stage, under the title "double expansion / internal combustion engine". I hade the same layout, two smaller pistons either side of a much larger piston.
Kinda freaky, but just convergent evolution i guess.
Double the piston ring friction! Wow! How has no one thought of this before???
One downside I see is a problem my 3-cylinder Geo Metro had. It would burn out the center intake valve because the exhaust gas was too hot. Hopefully this engine has better steel alloy to avoid that issue.
yea we still havent moved away from cast aluminum vs forged alloys... the suzuki 4 cyclinder ended up being raced...
I had a similar idea - but I was thinking oof using a standard 4 cylinder engine custom cams and modified intake/exhaust manifolds.
Basically this thing is like the gas version of a 2 stage compound steam engine.
double expansion internal combustin! WOW!
Lol, no, there isn't a third cam for the center exhaust, there's just an extra exhaust lobe on that cylinder's section, so it opens each time the piston rises.
I didnt know it. Quite interesting
1) I doubt the fuel efficency will increase by 40 % (- 30 % consumption) by just using a part of the residual excess pressure (5 bar mentioned).
2) The displacement is 1.5 L as also the central cylinder displaces a volume.
3) What happens at low loads (traffic)? The excess pressure from the combusting cylinders would be much lower, but there is still a need for excess pressure for final exhaust. The middle piston would then "suck" the hot gases (or might provide resistance) ==> Efficiency would go down.
Very nice idea, but.
Expansion ratio is already extended by valve timings, reducing power, but increasing efficiency.
In my opinion you can get the same effect with the Miller or Atkinson cycles. The advantages of these cycles is that you keep the number of moving parts. Using these cycles it is also possible to vary the compression to expansion stroke ratio. So you can operate the engine in the Otto cycle limit for best power and in the Atkinson or Miller cycle for best efficiency. In general, all these engines are much to complex for unexpensive manufacturing.
cant wait for the mechanic to say, your camshaft belft broke...
the little camshaft blet
The double speed cam in the animation is turning same as right hand intake cam, so once left hand cyl exhaust sroke fills centre bore it has nowhere to go but to get compressed again
Its like plane engines that had a ehaust turbo that spun crank shaft via some mechanism
wat
Those are called turbo compound engines, which is indeed a similar concept. A turbine uses exhaust energy to turn the crank shaft directly.
Gerhard Schmitz was my thermodynamics prof. I did not expect to hear his name in a UA-cam video
They're "fighting" electric cars by throwing all the old engine tech they can into one engine and hoping it'll work.
More like they are trying to reinvent the wheel and profit from all the environmental BS just like EVs does.
It's all stupid and built on misplaced hype and corruption.
As you mentioned that 5 stroke benefits only higher engine loads, forget cars and motorcycles and add marine and aircraft engines to generators and range extenders. The need for those continuously high load engines are million units a year. This innovation really has markets.
Its neat and maybe it will be used and mainstream some day but seems to weird to me to catch on
Build up on intake cams / ports to middle pistons will be an issue...and if stroke is variable (nissan VC technology)... the low load issue could be solved...
Complicated, but quite logical!
Very cool
Never happening in a production automobile. What keeps the water from freezing in winter ?
Compound engines could maybe have been called new in the early 20th century.
This is simply a 4 stroke engine with a different managment of input and output of gasses. You can calculate this in two ways.
Method A.) (easy) You have three cylinders each of which follows a 4 stroke input and output proces (that is two say 1 power stroke per 2 revolutions = 4 strokes).
Method B.) (more convoluted) we only count the HP cylinders as actual cylinders and we count the LP cylinder as a "helper" of wich the strokes must be added to the respected HP cylinders. In that case the middle LP cylinder is dedicated for 1/2 to each of the HP cylinders. Together , for each 2 rotations of the crankshaft, each HP cylinder + 1/2 of the LP cylinder produce 6 strokes, but because LP cylinder uses a normal 4 input and output mechanism, it produces 1 power stroke for each 2 rotations or 4 strokes. In other words it produces 0.5 power stroke for each of the 2 strokes that are dedicated to each of the 2 HP cylinders. So for each HP cylinder we get per 2 revolutions of the crankshaft: 4 + 2 = 6 strokes for wich we get 1 + 0.5 = 1.5 power strokes. But 6/1.5 = 4 so we still have a ratio of 1 power stroke per 4 cylinder strokes... so again: IT IS SIMPLY A 4 STROKE ENGINE! (with a different input and output mechanism for reuse of exhaust gasses).
There was a youtube video where Opel C16NE was converted to 5-stroke but it has dissappeared more than 10 years ago
Since the low pressure cylinder has no combustion, i wonder if carbon buildup is a problem with the exhaust gases passing through.
what if...
we delete the exhaust valves of the innner cylinder and use ports at the bottom??
why didn't they put dual cams for the middle cylinder instead of going with a separate cam shaft that spins twice as fast?
There was an antique car called the Compound that had 3 cylinders and worked much like this.
The have one at the fountainhead auto museum in Fairbanks. It's a runner and they drive it.
So the patent would be a fake? @@bdkw1
Kinda must find it :) fountainheadauto.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-unusual-compound-automobile.html
I think an Atkinson-cycle would improve the use of the higher expansion of exhaust gases without adding too much complications and issues at low rpm.
Perhaps a condenser would provide a surplus of water which could be retrieved from the exhaust. It would be pre heated too.
So now we have returned full round to the complex expansion steam engine
Another big drawback is lower power density from mass and packaging perspectives. You still have that big engine, but with the displacement of a 2 cylinder.
It seems like you could achieve a similar thing using a regular Atkinson engine with just the exhaust portion of the turbo connected to a generator like on a formula one engine. You also don't really need the turbo to compress incoming air, so a regular high-compression NA with an exhaust turbine would be more efficient.
Agreed, but only if you have somewhere to use that power in the drivetrain.
This engine converts exhaust pressure directly into mechanical energy at the crankshaft.
The turbo-style generator would first convert mechanical energy (moving gas particles) into electricity, then somewhere down the line convert back to mechanical energy through an electric motor.
The added two steps converting energy may end up being less efficient, but who knows 🍻
@@oscarschott8905 You're right, but most engines already have an alternator which could be upgraded (like some modern engines - see the Jeep Wrangler 4xe and Alfa Tonale hybrids) to a 3-phase motor generator. That also means you can remove the starter motor from the engine because the 3-phase belt-driven motor can start the engine.
These motors can be upwards of 90% efficient, and I believe turbines can be similarly efficient to pistons as well while taking up a lot less space.
@@oscarschott8905 but this engine is only suitable for electric generation anyway. The additional benefit of a separate turbine generator is that you can put it after the catalytic converter to scavenge some additional heat, introduced by the reaction.
The fact that central cil valvetrain has to run at 2x the normal speed basically kills the idea in practice. It might work on small engines, but its not scalable.
*steam engine* “you couldn’t handle your failure, and where did that bring you. Back to me”
If Hybrid is Standard, this Engine will be standard
As a further simplification, why not just put two sets of lobes on the center piston's cam shafts so you can drive them from the same shaft without gearing them up?
Well if you add a small electric engine to handle the low rev states of the car (like the ones found in hybrids such as e.g the Suzuki swift hybrid) I think you can negate the negatives and take advantage of the positives of this engine type
This would be the ideal engine for the 5 wheel drive SUV