IISE’s Paul Stewart, Chair in Energy and Environment will be a featured speaker at Linear Power 2015, and presenting on the novel aspects of his work in four-stroke, zero-constraint, linear generators. Prof Stewart developed the engine in collaboration with Lotus Engineering as part of the EPSRC funded project “Zero Constrain Free Piston Energy Converter” […]
Lotus Free-Piston Engine
Free Piston Engine research re-starting @DerbyUniIISE
It’s been a really hands on day today. I took a van over to a storage facility in Lincolnshire to pick up the free piston engine, power converters and ancillaries and shipped them back over to the IISE labs in Derby. Its been quite a while since I’ve had access to high quality laboratory […]
Great visit yesterday to Aero and Auto at Loughborough University yesterday.
I visited the Department of Aero and Auto Engineering at Loughborough University yesterday to meet up with my old friend and collaborator Prof Rui Chen. Rui and I discussed collaborating on some upcoming EU Horizon 2020 calls, and also further collaborative work on our 4-stroke free piston hybrid generator. More info on the Engine development […]
Research Collaboration meeting with Professor Rui Chen from the University of Loughborough
Yesterday (25th Sept 2012) Rui Chen, Professor of Low Carbon Engineering in the Department of Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering at the University of Loughborough visited PESRI to discuss research collaboration. Prof Chen and PESRI’s Prof Paul Stewart have been collaborating on research for around 10 years, including being Principal Investigators on the EPSRC Grant: GR/S97507/01 ‘Zero […]
Quasi-Constant Volume (QCV) Spark Ignition Combustion on the Free-Piston Engine Rig
Tweet SAE World Congress & Exhibition – 2009 Quasi-Constant Volume (QCV) Spark Ignition Combustion Paper Number: 2009-01-0700 DOI: 10.4271/2009-01-0700 Citation: Chen, R., Winward, E., Stewart, P., Taylor, B. et al., “Quasi-Constant Volume (QCV) Spark Ignition Combustion,” SAE Technical Paper 2009-01-0700, 2009, doi:10.4271/2009-01-0700. Author(s): Rui Chen – Loughborough Univ Edward Winward – Loughborough Univ Paul Stewart – University of Lincoln […]