COMPRESSED AIR

TECHNOLOGY
V.SOWJANYA
S.T.G.SAINADH M.SANTOSH
V.SUSMITHA P.S.N.PRAVEEN
G.SUBRAMANYAM
INTRODUCTION:
A compressed-air vehicle is powered by an air
engine, using compressed air, which is stored in a tank.
Instead of mixing fuel with air and burning it in the
engine to drive pistons with hot expanding gases,
compressed air vehicles (CAV) use the expansion of
compressed air to drive their pistons. One manufacturer
claims to have designed an engine that is 90 percent
efficient.
 HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT:
It cannot be claimed that compressed air as an energy and locomotion vector is
precisely recent technology. In fact at the end of the 19th century the first
approximations to what could one day become a compressed air driven vehicle
already existed, through the arrival of the first pneumatic locomotives. Yet even
two centuries before that Dennis Papin apparently came up with the idea of
using compressed air (Royal Society London, 1687).

The first recorded compressed-air vehicle in France was built by the Frenchmen
Andraud and Tessie of Motay in 1838. A car ran on a test track at Chaillot on the
9th July 1840, and worked well, but the idea was not pursued further. 

In 1872 the Mekarski air engine was used for street transit, consisting of a single-
stage engine. It represented an extremely important advance in terms of
pneumatic engines, due to its forward thinking use of thermodynamics, ensuring
that the air was heated, by passing it through tanks of boiling water, also
increasing its range between fill-ups. Numerous locomotives were manufactured
and a number of regular lines were even opened up (the first in Nantes in 1879).
ENGINE AND TECHNOLOGY
MODEL ENGINE:
 The engine that is installed in a
“compressed air car” uses
compressed air which is stored in
the car’s tank at a pressure as high
as 4500 psi. The technology used
by air car engines is totally
different from the technology that
is used in conventional fuel cars.
They use the pressure generated
by the expansion of compressed
air to run their pistons. This
results in ‘no pollution’, as air is
the only product that is used by
the engine to produce power, and
the waste material is the air itself.
 HOW A COMPRESSED AIR CAR WORK?

Figure 1. The different stages of efficiency loss for transportation with the
compressed-air car. The two stages that are specific for
compressed-air storage are marked in gray.
AIR TANKS ARRANGEMENT
COMPRESSED AIR ENGINE(CAE)
MODEL OF AIR CAR:
MODELS:
 ADVANTAGES
1. compressed air to store the energy instead of batteries. Their potential
advantages over other vehicles include:
2. Reducing pollution from one source, as opposed to the millions of vehicles
on the road.
3. Transportation of the fuel would not be required due to drawing power off the
electrical grid. This presents significant cost benefits. Pollution created during
fuel transportation would be eliminated.
4. Compressed air technology reduces the cost of vehicle production.
5. There is no need to build a cooling system, fuel tank, Ignition Systems or
silencers.
6. The mechanical design of the engine is simple and robust.
7. Low manufacture and maintenance costs as well as easy maintenance.
8. Compressed-air tanks can be disposed of or recycled with less pollution than
batteries.
 DISADVANTAGES
1. Like the modern car and most household appliances, the principal
disadvantage is the indirect use of energy.
2. The temperature difference between the incoming air and the working gas is
smaller. In heating the stored air, the device gets very cold and may ice up in
cool, moist climates.
3. Refueling the compressed air container using a home or low-end
conventional air compressor may take as long time..
4. Tanks get very hot when filled rapidly. It very dangers it some time bloused.
5. Only limited storage capacity of the tanks. So we not take drive on long time.
EMISSION:
CAT’S 34 ENGINE

Its flywheel is equipped with a 5kW electric moto-alternator. This motor is simultaneously:
•the motor to compress air
•the starting motor
•the alternator for recharging the battery
•an electric moderator/brake
•a temporary power supply (e.g. for parking)
CAT34 CONTINUED….

Our engines have attracted much curiosity

and prompted many questions. For various
reasons, one of which is industrial secrecy,
we haven't published all technical details
on this site.
However, over the coming months, just
before we begin serial production, we've
decided to reproduce an unprecedented
amount of information and data on the
famous "MDI Air Car".