TY - JOUR N2 - The paper presents an original design of a single compression machine for combustion study. The principle of operation is based an old concept, utilizing the inertia energy of a flywheel to accelerate the crank mechanism and the attached piston to compress rapidly the combustible mixture in the combustion chamber. A square piston geometry was adopted to allow visualization of the compression and combustion processes in directions perpendicular to the cylinder axis. To avoid the extensive scratching of glass walls by the moving piston, a special multi-action clutch-brake unit was used; this facilitates coupling of the flywheel with the crank mechanism during the single piston stroke and subsequent immediate uncoupling and fast stopping of the piston. The whole operating cycle can be completed within no more than two revolutions of the crankshaft. The design details of the machine, its acceleration characteristics and a sample of the visualized combustion process are presented. L1 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/125183/PDF/6_MECHANICAL_49_2002_4_Rychter_Inertia.pdf L2 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/125183 PY - 2002 IS - No 4 EP - 353 KW - combustion KW - piston engines A1 - Rychter, Tadeusz J. A1 - Lezanski, Tomasz PB - Polish Academy of Sciences, Committee on Machine Building VL - vol. 49 DA - 26.11.2022 T1 - Inertia-driven single compression machine for combustion study SP - 341 UR - http://journals.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/125183 T2 - Archive of Mechanical Engineering ER -