Internal combustion engine and compressor or pump with rotor and piston construction, and electrical generator pneumatically driven by same

摘要

Unique engines, air compressors, and pneumatically driven electrical generators are disclosed. The engine employs a rotor having a number of pistons slidably disposed within respective cylinder bores extending into the rotor periphery. As the rotor spins within a stator, each cylinder bore passes a combustion stage at which the piston is driven further into the rotor toward a bottom of the respective cylinder bore. Valves at the bottom of the cylinder discharge air that is compressed by this piston downstroke, and admit new intake air during an opposing upstroke. The unit thus operates as a self driven compressor, or engine-compressor combination, and the compressed air may be used to pneumatically drive a turbine of an electrical generator. A carbon splitter dissociates carbon and oxygen molecules from the carbon dioxide in the air downstream of the generator turbine, reducing the overall carbon dioxide output of the system.

主权项

1. An engine comprising: a stationary stator defining a cylindrical interior of circular cross section; a cylindrical rotor of circular cross section supported within the stator interior for rotation with a drive shaft projecting from the stator along a central axis, the rotor having a plurality of cylindrical bores extending thereinto from a periphery thereof at angularly spaced positions about the driveshaft;
a respective seal disposed about each cylindrical bore at the periphery of the rotor to seal around the cylindrical bore between the rotor and the stator; a respective piston disposed within each cylindrical bore and freely slidable therealong; a pulse detonation combustor having an outlet thereof opening into the interior of the stator, wherein a directional shockwave generated by an expansion of a mixture of ignited air and fuel in the pulse detonation combustor is directed into each cylindrical bore during passage of said cylindrical bore past the outlet of the combustor, wherein the outlet of said pulse detonation combustor is positioned and oriented such that the directional shockwave is directed against a side of the cylindrical bore to drive rotation of the rotor; an exhaust outtake extending from the interior of the stator to the exterior thereof to discharge exhaust gases from each cylindrical-bore passing by the exhaust outtake under rotation of the rotor after the exertion of the shockwave against the side of said cylindrical bore, the exhaust outtake being circumferentially spaced about the central axis from the pulse detonation combustor.