MHD Engine

A magnetohydrodynamic generator feeds electrical energy to a six cycle internal combustion engine having pairs of opposed pistons in each cylinder and a three port rotary valve system. A first exhaust port leads the partially combusted gases from one cylinder to the next and a second exhaust port leads the ionized, fully combusted gases to the magnetohydrodynamic generator, where the ionized exhaust gases pass through cryogenic, super-cooled magnetic fields, towards an electron emitter at the output end of the magnetohydrodynamic generator. The passage of the ionized gases through the magnetic fields produces current which is conducted to electrodes on opposed piston faces and to coils in the cylinder walls. The stream of electrodes between opposed piston faces and the coil in the cylinder sets up magnetic fields in the cylinders which isolate the combustion gases from the wall surface of the cylinder. The current produced in the magnetohydrodynamic generator is also conducted to a coil in the head of the piston which sets up a positive charge on the piston face which gathers electrons from the combusted gases in the cylinder and conducts them to the emitter in the magnetohydrodynamic generator. Control of the magnetic fields is accomplished through a rotary disk having arc-shaped means of magnets or slots, which create electrical energy as they pass adjacent a sensing device of a coil sensor or a photo cell, respectively.