Less weight, space, vibration, noise, fuel consumption… More power. Building on over 15 years of R&D, LiquidPiston provides a power solution that can scale to address the needs of the $400B internal combustion engine market and is a key enabler for emerging mobility technologies including electric cars, urban aircraft, and drones.
The company is focusing on military and aerospace markets, whose propulsion and power generation segments represent large application opportunities for LiquidPiston. The company also plans to enter industrial and commercial, marine, UAV, urban mobility, and automotive markets.
LiquidPiston’s rotary engines are the first disruption to engine technology in over a century. These engines are not Wankel engines; they are uniquely configured to adopt the company’s patented thermodynamic cycle and its associated efficiency and low-noise benefits. LiquidPiston’s X Engine improves virtually all parameters – efficiency, weight, size, vibration, and noise.
LiquidPiston’s HEHC is a patented thermodynamic cycle that combines the advantages of Diesel, Otto and Atkinson thermodynamic cycles, resulting in up to 30% improved efficiency.
A simple, efficient and elegant system, the X Engine only has a few moving parts, including the rotor (the primary work-producing component) and an eccentric shaft. Aside from ancillary parts such as injectors, fuel pumps and oil pumps, there are no other additional moving parts.
LiquidPiston was featured on How It’s Made, a documentary series from the Science Channel that offers viewers a look behind the scenes at how everyday things are manufactured. Watch our episode from Season 31 below for an in-depth look at the makings of LiquidPiston rotary engines.
Based in Bloomfield, CT, LiquidPiston develops compact, powerful, quiet, efficient, low-vibration, multi-fuel capable combustion engines that are scalable from 1HP to over 1000 HP.
LiquidPiston maintains state-of-the-art laboratory facilities dedicated to developing and testing engines and supporting components
LiquidPiston has built two fully equipped dynamometer/test cells and laboratory test setups with instrumentation.
LiquidPiston also has a machine shop with CNC machining and assembly capabilities.
