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Compressed Air Engine: Presented By: Abhishek Agarwal (101603)
Compressed Air Engine: Presented By: Abhishek Agarwal (101603)
Presented by :
Seminar Guide: Abhishek Agarwal
Dr. S Mondal (101603)
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Brief Recapitulation
What is an engine?
An engine or motor is a machine designed to convert energy into useful
mechanical motion.
Heat engines, including internal combustion engines and external combustion
engines (such as steam engines) burn a fuel to create heat, which then
creates motion.
Electric motors convert electrical energy into mechanical motion, pneumatic
motors use compressed air and others—such as clockwork motors in wind-up
toys—use elastic energy.
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Types of Engines
Engines
Non-
Combustion combustive
engines engines
Pneumatic Hydraulic
motor 3 motor
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History
The pneumatic motor was first applied to the field of transportation in the
mid-19th century.
Frenchmen Andraud and Tessie of Motay ran a car powered by a pneumatic
motor on a test track in Chaillot, France, on July 9, 1840.
An air powered car is a car that uses an engine powered by compressed air.
Invented by Guy Nègre, a French engineer; in 1991 started Moteur
Development International (MDI), Luxembourg.
The car can be powered solely by air or combined (as in a hybrid electric
vehicle) with gasoline, diesel & ethanol.
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Guy Negre presenting the air car- AIRPOD
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Recent Developments
Energine
The Energine Corporation was a South Korean company that claimed to
deliver fully assembled cars running on a hybrid compressed air and electric
engine.
The compressed-air engine is used to activate an alternator, which extends
the operating capacity of the car.
K'Airmobiles
K'Airmobiles vehicles were intended to be commercialized from a project
developed in France in 2006-2007 by a small group of researchers. However,
the project has not been able to gather the necessary funds.
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EngineAir
EngineAir, an Australian company, is making a rotary engine powered by
compressed air, called The Di Pietro motor.
The Di Pietro motor concept is based on a rotary piston
the Di Pietro motor uses a simple cylindrical rotary piston (shaft driver) which
rolls, with little friction, inside the cylindrical stator. It can be used in boat,
cars, burden carriers and other vehicles.
Only 1 psi (6,8 kPa) of pressure is needed to overcome the friction. The
engine was also featured on the ABC's New Inventors programme in Australia
on 24 March 2004.
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Building Compressed Air Engine From
Conventional Engine
To convert a conventional IC engine into an Air Powered one, few components
are to be replaced.
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Now the pulsed air firing in this valve is controlled by controlling the supply of
electrical signal to the plunger.
Now fuel tank is to be replaced with air vessel as it requires pressurized air as input.
And two things are to be taken care while designing air vessel:
1) First is its strength to withstand high internal pressure, which exists due to
compressed air.
2) Second is its capacity to store air and its weight.
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Replace cam with a modified cam.
This is to be done, so that both the inlet and outlet valves open and close at
the same time.
Main advantage of doing this is to achieve better scavenging system.
Also this will result in conversion of 4 stroke engine into 2 stroke air engine,
which in turn gives us the benefit of low mean effective pressure requirement
in addition to other operational benefits.
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Literature Review
Bharat Raj Singh1 and JP Yadav2 (2011) in their endeavour have evaluated the
performance of compressed air engines.
Their preliminary analysis based on the prototype calculation shows that around 3
cubic metre of air at a pressure more than 30bar can give a mileage equivalent to
one litre petrol i.e. Rs 64
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1 Bharat Raj Singh, Associate Director, SMS Institute of Technology, Lucknow
2 JP Yadav, Associate Professor, Chandra Shekhar Azad University of Agriculture & Technology
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
They designed the proto type for low speed, the output power; applied load was also
kept low.
The prime aim being to test the concept of application of with its related advantages.
Technical benefits:
The temperature of the engine while working will be slightly less than
the ambient temperature.
Smooth working of the engine due to very less wear and tear of the
components.
There is no possibility of knocking.
No need of cooling systems and spark plugs or Complex fuel injection
systems
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Economic benefits:
Reduces the cost of vehicle production by about 20% as no need
to build a cooling system, fuel tank, Ignition Systems or silencers.
Compressors use electricity for generating
Compressed air which is relatively much cheaper and
widespread.
Smooth working will lead to less wear & tear, so lesser
maintenance cost
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A Proven fact:
Research by MDI shows that an Air Powered Car can travel 171 km by using
electricity costing about Rs. 80-100 which would cost about Rs. 570 for a normal
S.I. engine car giving an average of 15 kmpl
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Major Technical Limitations
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Major Technical Limitations (contd.)
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References
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