Four rotor Atkinson cycle internal combustion engine

• Main Author: Goh, Seach Chyr.
• Other Authors: Chan, Siew Hwa
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Mechanical engineering::Motors, engines and turbines
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/13509
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Presently, the piston-type Otto cycle and Diesel cycle engines suffer from two fundamental disadvantages, namely, their non-rotary mechanism and their inability to provide an expansion ratio greater than the compression ratio. The Atkinson cycle is a modification of the Otto cycle wherein the combus...