http://www.sportcompactcarweb.com/ar...h02_0701.shtml

This is a good article on the different type of blowers, but it also describes an old s-charger design based on a wankle pump.

Too bad no one makes them any longer :-(

A rotary supercharged rotary would be a cool idea

 

My father has 25+ years experience in the commercial HVAC industry. I remember him telling me that back in the 70's there was a company that made an air conidtioning compressor that was based on a wankel engine design. Same prinicpal as a supercharger just a different substance being compressed and for a different purpose.

I will ask him again to get more details but if I rembmer correctly from what he said before they were largely unpopular in the industry because of the quality of the prodution and they were hard to rebuild in the field.

 

looks like a good avatar

 

Yep, the basic layout of a rotary was designed and used as a pump long before Felix Wankel tried to turn it into an internal combustion engine.

 

Yep, we all are driving old technology. All engines are based on old pumping technology. I prefer the rotary over steam engines converted to run on gas

Sounds like an idea for a new 3-rotor. 2-rotor power with a singl- rotor belt driven supercharger.

http://wankel-rotary.com/clst.htm
http://www.starapex.com/bernardmaillaed.html

To think that most cars are powered by an engine related to this primitive device:
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/6914/pppe.htm