“..Footage of the new and innovative Scuderi engine actually running on its own can be seen at www.scuderigroup.com.
The engine is a huge departure from the existing Otto cycle that has been the mainstay of the internal combustion engine for the past 130 years.
It almost sounds too good to be true but the manufacturers are claiming their revolutionary Scuderi Cycle technology will double fuel mileage and produce just a fraction of the pollutants currently belched out by cars today.
The video is a two-minute clip showing the normally aspirated 1000cc petrol prototype engine in operation seemingly proving the idea of firing after top dead centre does in fact work.
Massachusetts engineer and inventor Carmelo Scuderi started tinkering with the fundamentals of the internal combustion engine when he retired in the mid-1990s.
The result was a radical new design that could make engines for lawn mowers to diesel locomotives lighter, far more efficient, and a whole lot easier on the environment.
After patenting the first design concepts, Scuderi unfortunately died in 2002 but his dream didn’t end there.
Five of his children now work at the company and are determined to bring the prototype to the market.
Scuderi’s new idea splits the idea of a central single cylinder doing the entire intake, compression, power and exhaust stroke work.
His design was to have two cylinders linked together.
In the first cylinder, air is compressed and then forced into the second cylinder where the fuel is added and the mixture is ignited.
It’s in this chamber that Scuderi again moves away from convention.
Bucking a trend that goes back to before Henry Ford’s day, ignition takes place after top dead centre when the piston is beginning its downward stroke.
The idea of a split-cycle engine has been around for ages, but none have ever matched the efficiency of traditional engines.
Scuderi believed he could solve the problem by pumping highly pressurised air from the compression cylinder into the combustion chamber ..
.. and then allowing the fuel and air to ignite when the head of the piston was already moving away from the top of the combustion cylinder..”
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