COMPRESSED AIR ENGINE

A REVOLUTION IN AUTOMOBILE

DONE BY
PALLAV, SMEET,
KULDEEP ,PANKAJ
ANIL,ANKUSH.

CONTEXT

What is the Compressed Air Engine

Whats the worth.

Assembling of the various sections in the

Air engine.

Conclusion

Compressed air Engine

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

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The laws of physics dictate that uncontained gases will fill

any given space. The easiest way to see this in action is to
inflate a balloon. The elastic skin of the balloon holds the
air tightly inside, but the moment you use a pin to create
a hole in the balloon's surface, the air expands outward
with so much energy that the balloon explodes.
Compressing a gas into a small space is a way to store
energy. When the gas expands again, that energy is
released to do work. That's the basic principle behind
what makes an air car go.

WHY COMPRESSED AIR ENGINE

High torque for minimum volume

Air on its own, is non-flammable

Compressed-air tanks can be disposed of or recycled

with less pollution than batteries

The tank may be able to be refilled more often and in

less time than batteries can be recharged.

Compressed air technology reduces the cost of vehicle

production by about 20%, because there is no need to
build a cooling system, fuel tank, Ignition Systems

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The mechanical design of the engine is

simple and robust.

Compressed-air vehicles are

unconstrained by the degradation
problems

PROJECT DESIGN

Components used

1. Crank shaft 2
2. Connecting rod -2
3. Pneumatic cylender-2
4. Solenoid valve-4
5. Bearing-2
6. Bearing stand
7. Tyre-3
8. Compressor
9. Pneumatic pipe
10. Connectors
12. Body base
13. Electric circuit

About our project construction

1.

We arrange two crank shafts of two wheeler scooter

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2. We adjoin both crank shafts with the distance
angle of 90 degree for smooth turning

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3. We fix crank
shaft on wooden
frame

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We used. Solenoid
valve

for

transmit compressed
air to the cylinder for
4

stroke rotation
Normally in off

condition Solenoid
valve air inlet hole are
B and D and outlet hole
are E and C. due to this
cylinder squeeze

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5.In ON condition
Solenoid valve air
inlet hole are B and E
and outlet hole are D
and A. due to this
cylinder expended

This expansion and

squeezing help crank
rotation

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6.Solenoid
controlling
rotation of crank
shaft.

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8. Now we connect 4
solenoid coil with
pneumatic cylinder
for provide 4 stroke
(every coil provide 90
degree rotation when
current pass through
them).

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7. We weld two
crankshafts and connect
pneumatic cylinder with
them and fix them on
body frame with the help
of bearing. We weld one
sprocket on the right side
of crank shaft to transfer
its rotation to gear box

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9.We connect 1:4

gear box with
crankshaft for
convert crank speed
in to wheel torque
motion, due to this
our project is easily
move on surface.

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10.The most important part

is power transmission
system. As we are using 4
solenoid coil and these coil
are act as 4 stock
transmission, we are using a
simple technique to transmit
the same power. We take one
circular wooden piece and
divide that circle in to four
parts as shown below
diagram, these for piece are
metallic cutouts

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11.Now we take one

special dc gear motor
and fix it with circular
disk and this motor
transmit ac supply to
coil.

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Working: our project is working on 220v ac current, we divide this
current in to two part.

Part-1 is the Solenoid coil, one wire of the each 4-valves (positive)
is attach with disk and positive current is transmit by motor with its
connecting shaft and negative terminal of valves is connected to
negative of supply.

Part-2 is Dc motor regulating supply, second 220v ac supply is

going to step down transformer through fan regulator for regulate
supply. This transformer converts 220v ac to 12 ac supply. Now we
fix one bridge rectifier to convert ac to dc 12v supply for motor.
When we operate fan regulator, motor rotate slow and fast to

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12.

Final look.

DIAGRAMATIC REPRESENT

Pictorial view
representing source
for storage of
pressurized air which
is then let to the
piston through
solenoid valve.

UNFAVOURING

When air expands, as it would in the engine, it cools

dramatically and must be heated to ambient temperature
using a heat exchanger .The heating is necessary in order
to obtain a significant fraction of the theoretical energy
output.

Tanks get very hot when filled rapidly. Some tanks are
sometimes immersed in water to cool them down when
they are being filled. That would not be possible with
tanks in a car and thus it would either take a long time to
fill the tanks, or they would have to take less than a full
charge, since heat drives up the pressure

CONCLUSION

The model designed by us is a small scale working model

of the compressed air engine. When scaled to higher level
it can be used for driving automobiles independently or
combined (hybrid) with other engines like I.C. engines.
Main advantages of Compressed Air Engine (C.A.E.)
are:
1. Zero emission.
2. Use of renewable fuel.
3. Zero fuel cost (the cost is involved only in the
compression of air).