Hugonmotor
The Hugon engine , also known as Hugon's gas engine or Hugon gas engine , is a double-acting internal combustion engine with external mixture formation , which was invented by the French mechanic Pierre Hugon in 1858. Hugon only made his invention public in 1864 after Étienne Lenoir had success with his gas engine . Despite the superiority of the Hugon motor in comparison to the Lenoirm motor in terms of gas and oil consumption as well as operational reliability, it was not able to establish itself and was not widely used. Depending on the source, a Hugon motor with an output of 1471 W is said to have consumed approx. 3.26 m³ / kWh or 3.32 m³ / kWh, making it more economical than a Lenoirm motor , but using more fuel than the atmospheric gas motor Otto and Langens , while running smoother at the same time. In 1868 a Hugon motor with 736 W power cost 480 Thaler ex works. Vertical and horizontal versions with outputs of 368 W, 736 W, 1471 W and 2206 W were offered. Today a copy of a Hugon engine is still known, which is in the Anson Engine Museum.
functionality
The Hugon motor is a reciprocating piston stationary motor and is operated with luminous gas , which burns explosively in the combustion chamber and acts on the piston. The piston movement is transmitted to a flywheel via a connecting rod and converted into a rotary movement. It still resembles a steam engine and is a two-stroke engine . Gas and air are mixed with one another before flowing into the combustion chamber ( external mixture formation ), the mixture is not compressed. The motor is slide-controlled and double-acting. This means that the force acts alternately on the piston from above and below. The luminous gas is ignited with two small gas flames that burn at the top and bottom outside the combustion chamber. To protect the engine from overheating, it is cooled with water, and a small amount of water is also introduced directly into the combustion chamber.
literature
- Rudolf Krebs: Five millennia of wheeled vehicles: two centuries of road traffic with thermal energy. Over 100 years of automobiles . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 1994. ISBN 9783642935534 . P. 203
- Theodor Schwartze: The gas machine according to its historical development, theory and practice from the latest point of view of experience presented by Th. Schwartze . Quandt & Handel, 1887. p. 156 ff.
- Adolf Karl Heinrich Slaby: Calorimetric studies on the cycle of the gas machine . L. Simion, 1894. pp. 232 ff.
- Ch.Bontemps, JA Barral: La nouvelle machine à gaz de Mr. Hugon . Press Scient, 1863
- Josef Grossmann: Commercial knowledge of woodworking for schools and practice: Volume II: The tools and machines used in woodworking . Vieweg & Teubner, Wiesbaden 1924. ISBN 9783663159674 . P. 101
- Agricultural Association for Lower Franconia and Aschaffenburg (Ed.): Non-profit weekly publication: Organ for technology, Volkswirthschaft u. Poor Care , Volume 18, 1868. pp. 239 ff.
- Johann Gottfried Dingler: Dinglers Polytechnisches Journal , Volume 187. JG Cotta, 1868. P. 10
- Heinrich Schellen: The school of elementary mechanics and mechanical engineering for self-teaching as well as for commercial and secondary schools: partly freely edited according to Delauney's Cours élémentaire de mécanique . 1868, p. 563 ff.