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Wankel Rotary Engine: Anand Kumar Yadav Mechanical 3 Year S.I.T.M Lucknow 1012340020

The document summarizes the Wankel rotary engine, including its history, design, operation, and challenges. The Wankel rotary engine was designed by Felix Wankel in 1954 and used three separate chambers to regulate fuel intake, compression, combustion, and exhaust in a continuous spinning motion, making it lighter and more compact than piston engines. While it had advantages over piston engines in power-to-weight ratio and fewer moving parts, its main disadvantage was lower fuel efficiency. Modeling the Wankel engine helped further skills in assembly, constraints, sweeps, blends, and gear connections in ProE software.

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Wankel Rotary Engine: Anand Kumar Yadav Mechanical 3 Year S.I.T.M Lucknow 1012340020

The document summarizes the Wankel rotary engine, including its history, design, operation, and challenges. The Wankel rotary engine was designed by Felix Wankel in 1954 and used three separate chambers to regulate fuel intake, compression, combustion, and exhaust in a continuous spinning motion, making it lighter and more compact than piston engines. While it had advantages over piston engines in power-to-weight ratio and fewer moving parts, its main disadvantage was lower fuel efficiency. Modeling the Wankel engine helped further skills in assembly, constraints, sweeps, blends, and gear connections in ProE software.

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Wankel Rotary Engine

ANAND KUMAR YADAV MECHANICAL 3rd YEAR S.I.T.M Lucknow 1012340020

Why the Wankel?


To further our modeling skills Obtain a better understanding of the workings of the rotary engine and the thermodynamic cycles that go on within Transmission was also a challenging piece of machinery Good example of thinking outside the box To inform people that there are alternatives to the conventional four stroke cylinder engine

History
Designed by German engineer Felix Wankel in 1954 Manufactured mainly by Mazda, currently used in Mazda RX-8 Extremely lightweight and small when compared to engines with similar power output Used in a lot of aircraft Main disadvantage is fuel inefficiency

Cylinder vs. Rotary Engines


Uses pistons to regulate intake and exhaust of fuel and gas. All four strokes, intake compression, combustion and exhaust occur in same cylinder. Pistons continually reverse direction creating more wear and tear on the engine Bad power to weight ratio in comparison Lower rev limit
Has a spinning rotor that creates three separate chambers and regulates the inflow and outflow of gasses. Each chamber draws in air and fuel, is compressed, ignited and combusted then expelled creating power while at the same time forcing the other two chambers to do the same. Rotors move in a continuous direction making it smoother Only about three moving parts creating less friction and less possibility for error

Stroke Animation
Intake Compression Ignition/Combustion Exhaust

Intake and Compression

Combustion and Exhaust

Inner Workings

Exploded View

Engine in Action

Challenges & Difficulties


Transmission
Many moving parts Gear ratios were very difficult to get right Constraints started conflicting

Engine
Measurements for rotor pieces and rotor housing were difficult to obtain Some pieces needed to be generated by equations Interference between housing and rotor was an issue Inserting gear constraints between all moving parts was difficult to get right

Assembly
Pieces needed to be continually adjusted to fit together properly

Summary
The Wankel Rotary engine is still a promising piece of technology Mazda continues to spend money on the concept with the hope of improving its fuel efficiency There are also several other types of rotary engines that run on various types of fuel We utilized and furthered all the skills taught to us in ProE class including assembly, constraints, sweeps, blends, gear connections, animations

Thanks Ray
THANKS YOU !

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