Sep 4, 2019 · Building a diesel engine that does not use traditional pistons may seem odd, but in today's modern age of high efficiency, low emissions, and weight reduction, an engine with a...

A Wankel Diesel engine shares its basic design, a triangular-like rotor in an oval, epitrochoid-shaped housing, with a regular Wankel engine. The key difference is that it shares all of its …

Sep 15, 2020 · Despite the rotary’s flaws, one American startup tried to argue the Wankel’s case—not in cars, but by bringing it to the waves in 11.6-liter, diesel-burning big-block form. …

Apr 5, 2023 · This supercharged, liquid-cooled two-stroke claims 5X the power of an equivalent size or weight diesel engine, and 3X the torque.

LiquidPiston’s X-Engine is a rotary engine that is 30% more efficient and up to 10X smaller than a traditional diesel engine.

Mar 25, 2025 · But before the popularity of the Wankel died, a slew of automakers, including Daimler, John Deere, and Rolls-Royce, took the weird tech to its limit by trying to make hyper …

Mar 26, 2024 · Our reimagined rotary engine – the X-Engine – solves the problems inherent to conventional alternatives. It’s a high-efficiency, low-emissions, multi-fuel-capable design that’s …

Rolls Royce developed a diesel rotary engine for military applications. Because diesel engines require high compression ratios for compression ignition to occur, they used a second rotor...

Mar 6, 2021 · LiquidPiston has been awarded a contract from the United States Air Force to adapt its X-Engine technology for use in unmanned aerial systems (UAS) as well as “orbs” – urban …

Nov 13, 2023 · LiquidPiston thinks it has those problems solved, however, and in the process, it created a new internal combustion engine that’s small and efficient. It has demonstrated its …