The purpose of this project is to design and manufacture a functional Wankel engine. A Wankel engine utilizes volume changes of an eccentrically turning rotor in a housing for power cycles. As the internal rotor of a Wankel engine rotates, the volume of its combustion chamber cyclically changes. The resulting volume changes of the combustion chamber create the intake, compression, combustion, and exhaust necessary for a thermal power cycle. The primary components of the prototype were designed by the team to be manufactured using the CNC machining equipment available at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. This Major Qualifying Project report outlines the team’s process of designing, machining, and testing to produce a fully functional prototype of the engine.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Terek, Deniz
• Keiran, Patrick
• Pine, Kevin
• Martin, Christopher
• Colgate, Daniel

Subject

• Learning
• Infrastructure
• Industry
• Energy
• Project-Based Learning

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• 108441
• E-project-050323-141820

Keyword

• Milling
• Wankel
• CNC
• Engine

Advisor

• Guceri, Selcuk

Year

• 2023

UN Sustainable Development Goals

• 9 - Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

Date created

• 2023-05-03

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Mechanical Engineering

Source

• E-project-050323-141820

Rights statement

• In Copyright

Last modified

• 2023-06-12