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A new method for driving the hydraulic free piston engine is proposed. This method achieves the compression stroke automatically rather than special recovery system. Principle of hydraulic differential drive free-piston engine is analyzed and the control strategy of this novel hydraulic driving engine is also introduced. Then energy balance method is used to design the main parameters of the novel engine. High pressure and secondary high pressure of the hydraulic system are constrained by the combustion parameters and therefore parameters are analyzed. In order to verify the effectiveness of energy balance method, the mathematical model is established based on the piston force analysis and engine working principle. The transient results of dynamics are obtained through simulation. In addition, the effectiveness of the simulation is proofed by dimensionless analysis. It indicates that energy balance method realizes the basic performance of hydraulic free piston engine.

The hydraulic free piston engine is a complex mechanical-electro-liquid system, in order to simplify the complex system of the single hydraulic free piston engine, a new method for the driving of hydraulic free piston engine is proposed. Hydraulic differential drive achieves the compression stroke automatically rather than special recovery system. The structure and principle of hydraulic differential drive free-piston engine are analyzed and the mathematical model is established based on the piston force analysis and the hydraulic system working principle. In addition, the control strategy of this novel hydraulic driving engine is also introduced. Finally, the transient results of dynamics are obtained through simulation. Then we compare our results to the ones from the hydraulic free piston engine made by the company Innas.

The Structure and principle of the hydraulic free piston engine (HFPE) is analyzed, and the mathematical model is established according to the feature of the working principle. The transient processes are analyzed through simulation. The result shows that: 1) the working cycle of the HFPE is unsymmetrical, the compression stroke time is 16ms and the expansion stroke time is 10ms. 2) The speed of the power piston is faster than the conventional diesel engine, the maximum speed in the compression stroke is 12m/s and the maximum speed in the expansion stroke is 17m/s. 3) The acceleration is bigger than the conventional engine, the maximum value is 16500m/s2, at the top dead centre and the smallest value is 3500m/s2 at the bottom dead centre.