- ALM Turbine Inc. - Information about the company's gas turbine engine technology.
www.miniturbine.com
- ASME: Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) Division - American Society of Mechanical Engineers: promoting the art and science of mechanical engineering of engines, encouraging and fostering research and development, and summarizing and publishing reliable data on these topics since 1921.
www.asme.org/divisions/ice
- Bourke Engine Com LLC - Very simple, efficient, 'green' piston engine technology. Developed in the 1930s, patents expired. Inventor died after building devices, but without financial success.
bourke-engine.com
- Ceramic Engine Technology - Describes internal combustion piston engine built of Silicon material: treats advantages and costs; some small physics errors.
www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/1614
- CKE Radial Engine - Five cylinders, five valves per cylinder driven by in-head cams. Based on multicylinder, multibank radial engines used in old, pre-jet aircraft; well researched, prototype exists and is tested, air and oil cooled.
www.cke-tech.com/RE.htm
- Concept Engine - Lists, links, briefly describes many engine design concepts, sorted by nation, and some engine related systems; details: Concept IC Engine, designed to raise fuel efficiency and performance, Rotary Pulse Jet Engine, gas turbine for ground vehicles.
conceptengine.tripod.com
- Constant Pressure Engines, Inc. - Manufacturer of high efficiency / low emission piston engines, based on the Russell Bourke engine design.
www.constant-pressure.com
- Diesel Cycle visualization - Java applet showing the pressure-volume diagram for Diesel engines.
www.blueneptune.com/~xmwang/javappl/dieselCyc.html
- Diesel: All Diesel WebRing - WebRing for diesel enthusiasts, owners, mechanics, sellers, more.
webring.com/hub?ring=alldiesel
- GE Aircraft Engines - Manufacturer of marine, industrial and aircraft jet engines. Specifications and other information on their complete line of engines.
www.geae.com
- GM Powertrain - Manufactures engines, transmissions, castings, and components for GM cars and trucks, and for non-GM OEMs. Extensive engine and transmission specifications and motorsports news.
www.gmpowertrain.com
- GM-Diesel.com - Information, discussion, reviews related to General Motors (GM) line of diesel engines, including the new Duramax, and other diesels in general. A.k.a.: Dura-Max.com, Diesel-Truck.com, GM-Diesel.com, Chevy-Diesels.com, GMC-Diesel.com.
www.gmc-diesel.com
- Hetex Engines, Inc. - Research company to develop and market recuperative engine (heat exchanger based) to raise efficiency and cut costs for portable power needs. Ignites wider range of fuel-air ratios than Otto engine: can be controlled by leaning fuel input rather than wasteful induction throttling.
hetexengines.com
- HowStuffWorks: Automobile Ignition Systems - Colorful animations show how an ignition system must work in perfect concert with the rest of the engine. Explains difference between 'hot' and 'cold' spark plugs.
www.howstuffworks.com/ignition-system.htm
- Kramer 2-cycle engine - Opposed, cross-feed, super-charged, two-cycle, compound, internal combustion engine, featuring purge air. U.S.Pat. 1993.
www.siscom.net/~louisekramer
- Miller: How Stuff Works: How Does a Miller Cycle Engine Work? - Brief explanation of Miller cycle (Otto cycle variant) with one link.
www.howstuffworks.com/question132.htm
- Miller: Mazda: The Inside Story on the Miller Cycle Engine - Explains why Miller cycle (forced induction Otto-cycle) is more efficient than pure Otto cycle: it reduces the effective compression stroke. Mazda makes and sells some cars with Miller cycle engines.
www.mazda.com.au/articleZone.asp?articleZoneID=92
- Oscillator Engine - Engine with oscillating flaps instead of pistons, substituting crank gear. Claims higher efficiency, better power to weight ratio, lesser internal resistance for minimum starting effort & fuel thrifty idle running.
www.oscillatorengine.com
- Phoenix Navigation & Guidance, Inc. - Phoenix 2000 Series Turbines, alternative fuel engine. Promoting reductions in greenhouse gas emissions through biomass fuels, turbine technology breakthroughs, and other motive power solutions.
www.angelfire.com/mi2/pnginc
- SwRI - SwRI examined the cylinder heads taken from a natural gas-fueled 60-kW cogeneration set engine with 15,000 hours of operation, evaluated the condition of the cylinder heads compared.
www.swri.edu/4org/d03/engres/spkeng/sprkign/default.htm
- The IrYdium Project: Internal Combustion Engine Simulator - At Carnegie Mellon University. Visual applet simulating a four-stroke Otto cycle, with user-changeable parameters.
ir.chem.cmu.edu/irProject/applets/engine
- Turbine: How Stuff Works: Jet Engine - Explains basics of jet engines well, with several images and a useful animation.
www.howstuffworks.com/turbine.htm
- Turbine: Mike's Homebuilt Turbojet Engine - A site about design and construction of an experimental, homebuilt turbojet engine.
mdavis19.tripod.com/turbine/index.html
- Unusual Engines - A look at some of the internal combustion engine types not mentioned in standard text books, but which have advantages over current technology. Also a discussion of some consequences of the current standard internal combustion engine.
www.geocities.com/kiwiengineer2002/index.html
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