The Study of Friction Power Loss of Piston Group of a Twin-Rotor Engine

Abstract:

Compared with the conventional piston engines, the new rotary engine has many significant advantages, such as smaller volume and higher power density. Current studies at home and abroad are mainly focusing on aspects of its structural design, kinematics, dynamics analysis, except mechanical efficiency. In conventional piston engines, frictional loss of the piston group accounted for 65% of the total friction power loss ^[1]. In order to provide the scientific basis for designing low friction piston of the rotary engine, this paper combine the average two-dimensional Reynolds equation, the asperity contacts equation, viscosity-temperature equation and loads balance equation, proposing a method for calculating the friction power loss, and the applying the method to calculate the friction power loss of piston group of a new rotary engine.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 620)
• Pages: 375-381
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.620.375
• Online since: August 2014
• Authors: Jin Zhou Chen, Cun Yun Pan*, Wen Min Li, Lei Zhang, Hu Chen
• Keywords: Asperity, Average Reynolds Equation, Friction Power Loss, Piston Ring, Twin-Rotor Engine

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