Opposed twin car engine.

[PTmowerMech]

Innovative OPOC Engine: Opposed Piston Opposed Cylinder Engine

Internal Combustion Engines are widely used in vehicles. It uses fuel in confined space. The engine has the portability and is more convenient over electricity, hybrid vehicles, etc. But the major drawback of these engines is pollution that they put out. Internal Combustion Engines creates air pollution in a large amount. To replace this engine, many engineers are working on new technologies like electric motors, hybrid power trains, hydrogen fuel cells, and even cars that run on compressed air. But none of these technologies are efficient. So, we need a better internal combustion engine.

Here is the good news: Better internal combustion engines are on the way.


A company called an Ecomotor developing the new Engine named as Opposed-Piston-Opposed-Cylinder Engine. Opposed- Piston-Opposed-Cylinder (OPOC) Engine is the most exciting new type of internal combustion engines.

 

[bertsmobile1]

Well the poppet valve engine has been around since 1890 and since the 1950's cities have been built around motor vehicles.
There is not enough copper, cobalt, nickel on the planet to replace all of the petrol powered engines with electric ones.
Each alternative technology has it's place.
The compresses air cars used for taxi transport between Delhi & it's airports works well there .
Compressed hydrogen will work as a replacement for heavy transport diesel engines and in particular in construction & earthmoving where the extra weight is an advantage .
Hydrogen turbine - electric motor is the go for rail .
The problem always is getting the individual industry to use the right technology
Unless you live in a communist country the idea of saying as of year 1234 all trucks have to be hydrogen powered is likely to have you shot in the USA & deposed anywhere else on the planet .
The big downside of capitalist economies is they will always waste what is cheapest rather than using what is best .
We could go back to UK styled vehicles ( small engines with big gearboxes ) in place of US styled vehicles ( Big engines with lazy gearboxes ) and that alone would save millions of gallons of fuel.
I bought a Nissan in 1984 with power steering , air con powered by a 1600cc engine
qw replaced in it 1992 with another one, the same model , the same weight but to get power steering & air con we had to buy the 2400cc engine
The sales rep said we could not get power & air on the smaller 1800cc engine because it does not have enough power .
New model was 60kg heavier than the earlier model, had the same running gear .
By 2010 the same model came with a 3000cc big engine and a 2600cc small "economy" engine
The first one got 60 mpg
it's replacement was pushing it to get 50 mpg

 

[PTmowerMech]

Here's a different design. It's a 2cycle also.

 

[StarTech]

Well the Piper Tomahawk had a four cylinder opposed engine that I flew. Nothing new about the design other than they design it to fitted in a ground vehicle. The Tomahawk cruised at about 110 knots which bad an engine driven prop.

 

[bertsmobile1]

Before everything went electric the anchor chain winch on a lot of battle ships was an opposed piston engine started with a shot gun cartridge.
Lots of very cleaver designs out there
However the best environmentally was the turbine generator powering an electric motor.
Then there were things like water injection , that can triple the fuel economy & bump up the torque nearly 50%
Was used to get heavy bombers off the short decks of carriers during WWII .
But again capitalist systems waste whatever is abundant & cheap .
So the US got massive V 8's while socialist countries got tiny 2 cylinder engines .

 

[StarTech]

Actually converting gasoline fuel into a vapor before it engine the combustion chamber can really drive up the fuel economy too. I have seen designs that claims up 100mpg in V8s.

 

[bertsmobile1]

Those figures sound a bit of an exaggeration .
On a carburettor engine you are looking at about 30 %
On a computer controlled fuel injected engine it should make no difference

 

[StarTech]

What they was vaporize the fuel and suck it into the engine. It was a dangerous design as no back flow preventers and they just wanted folk to plain steel. I could where redirected exhaust heat could easy cause burn through in the pumping and then be a potential explosion hazard., though only a small amount oxygen was available. But figures would higher then atomized fuel mix if I can take a carbureted engine on a small V8 and make it get 32 mpg. Of the V8 I did was only a 265 CI engine. But even that was 30% increase the average mpg from the factory. I went from 16 mpg to 22.6 mpg average with a cruising highway mpg of 32 mpg.

 

[VRR.DYNDNS>BIZ]

Hybrids as mentioned will not take over the world for lack of raw materials. To bad cause it with the proper drive train has great advantages. static hybrids that continue to charge a larger battery bank and use a engine just able to get the car moving when battery storage is drained and have gear ranges as well as motor drives provide peak efficiency. The gas engine can be improved for more efficiency but it has a limit unless the heat is recovered for energy for use as the heat loses are the biggest loss and are significant. Fuel cells could be used to charge battery banks, heat to electric cycle systems, efficient combustion designs and more still need fuels, Total electric vehicles will not overtake the market until super fast "refill" and refill stations and available electric grid power can sustain the continued use on quick refills plentifully available. Soooo, we need gas!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And we need it for many years of further development unless a miracle design and new power source is developed. THEN we can cut back on gasoline used, not till then. Will somebody - hell everybody tell Biden this.

 

[StarTech]

Will somebody - hell everybody tell Biden this.

You got to remember every president has 535 bosses. There are a total of 535 Members of Congress. 100 serve in the U.S. Senate and 435 serve in the U.S. House of Representatives. The president can only ask for things to done it is these 535 bosses that say yea or nay to every idea he has. And right now with the Senate evenly split so nothing is getting done that benefits us.

It is like you thinking your are the boss of your family when in fact they are your bosses, only when everyone agrees things moves along smoothly. Right the Republicians are hell bent on preventing anything getting done if the president asks for it. It would be just about as bad if we had Republican president and the Democrats were the roadblock. We got to elect people that actually works for us instead themselves. Terms limits on Congress would be a big help. Two six year terms is enough and then new ideas can come to life.