See flash animation near bottom of page:
Looks similar to a Wankel. This page describes the differences:
http://www.quasiturbine.com/ETheoryQTVersusWankel.htm
Do you think there’s any promise for this technology? Or is it hype?
See flash animation near bottom of page:
Looks similar to a Wankel. This page describes the differences:
http://www.quasiturbine.com/ETheoryQTVersusWankel.htm
Do you think there’s any promise for this technology? Or is it hype?
I read through the Quasiturbine site, and they linked to a fistful of sites that explain what was left vague in the Q-site. I went to the How Stuff Works version. My opinion is that it might be workable, but I can see some potential problems.
The first set of illustrations show a 4-part jointed rotor with no apparent driveshaft. That’s mysterious, but they go on to show a more complicated version, with roller carriages and a double-jointed link to a driveshaft.
Each carriage has two wide rollers and a sliding seal between them. Despite all this rolling and wiping and rocking inside the combustion chamber, they claim there’s no need for oil. :dubious: At the edge of the multi-jointed rotor, they don’t quite explain how the seal against the endplates of the engine works, either.
Their claim of continuous combustion “like a gas turbine” is bogus. It’s still “suck, squish, burn, spit” just like a piston engine.
Their comparison to the Wankel rotary engine seems to favor the Wankel, not the QT. I count lots more moving parts and joints in the QT.
The future of transportation is the electric motor. Further improvements to the internal-combustion engine are a waste of time.