Electromagnetic Engine: Can It Power an Engine?

[psvtrajan]

Is there any engine which works using electromagnet?

 

[tech99]

Is there any engine which works using electromagnet?

When people first started to make electric motors they copied the steam engine, with a reciprocating mechanism. One is illustrated in my old book and is called the Magneto Electric Engine, and has a connecting rod and flywheel. You may will find these in science museums - I think they have one at the Royal Institution in London. Later on it was found that rotary engines were better.

 

[DrZoidberg]

All electric motors work using electromagnets.

 

[psvtrajan]

I'm not asking for electric motor.
Is there any engine, in which piston movement is controlled by electromagnets?

 

[meBigGuy]

A linear actuator could be considered a connecting rod moved by an electromagnet.
But calling it a piston is probably technically incorrect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reciprocating_electric_motor

Seems they have uses as linear compressors.

I can't imagine that it would ever be more efficient than an electric motor with gearing.

Google Reciprocating Electric Engine
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFpitPUKDls

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[russ_watters]

Mag-lev trains.

 

[psvtrajan]

I'm asking for engine

 

[Averagesupernova]

Straight from:

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/engine?s=t

Engine is described as:

1.
a machine for converting thermal energy into mechanical energy or power to produce force and motion.
2.
a railroad locomotive.
3.
a fire engine.
4.
any mechanical contrivance.
5.
a machine or instrument used in warfare, as a battering ram, catapult, or piece of artillery.
6.
Obsolete. an instrument of torture, especially the rack.

So you want a heat engine as described by definition #1 that uses electromagnets instead of heat? If so it is no longer considered an engine by definition. So are you still going to get hung up on words and definitions? Live by strict definitions, die by strict definitions.

 

[tech99]

Straight from:

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/engine?s=t

Engine is described as:So you want a heat engine as described by definition #1 that uses electromagnets instead of heat? If so it is no longer considered an engine by definition. So are you still going to get hung up on words and definitions? Live by strict definitions, die by strict definitions.

This link might be of interest, a V6 engine using solenoids.