Rotary turbine combustion engine
OwnerAmjad Farohainventor
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Abstract
A method of controlling a rotary engine is disclosed. The rotary engine includes a shroud surrounding a rotor. The rotor carries a combustion chamber spaced from an axis of rotation of the rotor. A pressure activated valve is located between the combustion chamber and obliquely arranged exhaust nozzles. An ECU controls the combustion cycle of the engine based on a signal from a pressure sensor in the combustion chamber. The electronic control responds to the pressure signal from the pressure sensor to open a fuel control valve, to fire a spark plug and cause combustion of the fuel within the combustion chamber, and to thereafter open an air control valve to purge the combustion chamber of exhaust gasses.
Claims9
A method of controlling a rotary engine, comprising the steps of:
- providing a shroud surrounding a rotor, the rotor having a first axis of rotation and carrying a first combustion chamber spaced from an axis of rotation of the rotor, the first combustion chamber having an exhaust outlet directed from the combustion chamber, the first combustion chamber moving along a first circular path as the rotor rotates about the first axis of rotation;
- the exhaust outlet directed in a direction having a tangential direction component that is tangential to the circular path at the location of the exhaust outlet on the circular path, the tangential direction component greater than zero;
- monitoring pressure within the combustion chamber;
- delivering pressurized fuel into the combustion chamber;
- igniting the fuel in the combustion chamber in response to the pressure in the combustion chamber reaching a first pre-selected pressure value, and directing exhaust gas out of the exhaust outlet causing the rotor to rotate;
- delivering pressurized air into the exhaust chamber in response to the exhaust gas within the combustion chamber reaching a second pre-selected pressure value, to purge exhaust gas from the combustion chamber.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.