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.
Claims4
A method of controlling a rotary engine, comprising the steps of:
- providing a shroud surrounding a rotor, the rotor carrying at least one combustion chamber spaced from an axis of rotation of the rotor, the combustion chamber having an exhaust outlet directed from the combustion chamber at least partly tangentially of the axis of rotation;
- monitoring pressure within the combustion chamber;
- delivering pressurized fuel into the combustion chamber;
- when the pressure in the combustion chamber reaches a first pre-selected pressure value, igniting the fuel in the combustion chamber and directing exhaust gas out of the exhaust outlet causing the rotor to rotate;
- when the exhaust gas within the combustion chamber reaches a second pre-selected pressure value, delivering pressurized air into the exhaust chamber to purge exhaust gas from the combustion chamber.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.