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That design has a second cylinder on the other side, but it's not actually in production.
http://www.fairdiesel.co.uk/technical.htm
There was another company called dynacam that made a similar engine but without the opposed pistons.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJSLDq7MkhQ
They're designed for marine and aviation applications, though I don't know how successful they'll be. The Americans use a similar design that uses a swashplate instead of a sinusoidal varying cam in their torpedoes, so it may have some market.
I find opposed piston designed fascinating.

During the last war there were motor torpedo boats that used opposed piston engines arranged in such a way that you have 3 cylinders arranged in a delta shape driving 3 crankshafts. Super cool stuff!


http://www.fairdiesel.co.uk/technical.htm
There was another company called dynacam that made a similar engine but without the opposed pistons.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJSLDq7MkhQ
They're designed for marine and aviation applications, though I don't know how successful they'll be. The Americans use a similar design that uses a swashplate instead of a sinusoidal varying cam in their torpedoes, so it may have some market.
I find opposed piston designed fascinating.

During the last war there were motor torpedo boats that used opposed piston engines arranged in such a way that you have 3 cylinders arranged in a delta shape driving 3 crankshafts. Super cool stuff!


Sure it is, though diesels in general don't knock until moderately higher compression ratios than those that set off gasoline engines. The diesel fuel must spark or knock at the right compression ratio, when the pistons are nearly at the top of their travel. If the fuel fired when the pistons were only half through their travel the engine wouldn't like it. Do a Google search for all the anti-knock products available for diesels.
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Kirk wrote: Sure it is, though diesels in general don't knock until moderately higher compression ratios than those that set off gasoline engines. The diesel fuel must spark or knock at the right compression ratio, when the pistons are nearly at the top of their travel. If the fuel fired when the pistons were only half through their travel the engine wouldn't like it. Do a Google search for all the anti-knock products available for diesels.
I guess I just don't think of early ignition in diesels as knock, but you're right. You can have ingition timing errors in diesels It's amazing how much control engineers have now over engines, adjusting timing on the fly with the scads of pressure and temperature data they get in real time.
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