This project aims to design, prototype, manufacture, and analyze a rotating cylinder valve (RCV) engine. The RCV engine is an internal combustion engine which forgoes a traditional valvetrain and camshafts, instead using a rotating valve attached to the cylinder. This design offers advantages in efficiency, power output, and emissions control. The project includes three main phases, conceptual design and simulation, prototype development, and performance evaluation. The history of this engine and its operating principles are introduced, followed by an analysis of operation. A new, larger 1.6 cubic inch RCV engine is then designed and manufactured, and plans are made for testing and evaluation.

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Creator

• Shon, Jiwon
• Vincent, Molly
• Zembruski, Michael

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-032024-120615
• 118994

Advisor

• Guceri, Selcuk
• Hansen, Peter H.

Year

• 2024

Date created

• 2024-03-20

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Mechanical Engineering

Source

• E-project-032024-120615

Rights statement

• In Copyright