Compressed Air Engine Project
Compressed Air Engine Project report
Abstract:
An AIR DRIVEN ENGINE is an Eco-friendly engine which operates with compressed air. An Air Driven Engine
uses the expansion of compressed air to drive the pistons of an engine. An Air driven Engine is a pneumatic
actuator that creates useful work by expanding compressed air. Since, there is no combustion, there will be no
mixing of fuel with air takes place.
An Air Driven Engine makes use of Compressed air technology for its operation. The Compressed air technology is
quite simple in its operation. It works as we compress normal air into a cylinder, the air would hold some energy
within it. This energy can be utilized for useful purposes. When this compressed air expands, the energy is released
to do useful work. So, this energy in compressed air can also be utilized to displace a piston.
The primary objective of this work is to design and fabricate compressed air engine to cope up the shortage of most
commonly used fuel engines and go for compressed air as an alternate fuel, after doing certain analysis and
perform mathematical calculations.The exhaust emission standard are getting more and more stringent and there now exits a discussion about the
introduction of a mandatory emission standard of CO2, a greenhouse gas that contributes to the climate change
which is an issue of growing international concern.
This demand for lower exhaust emission levels together with increasing fuel prices leads to the demand for
combustion engine with better fuel economy which forces engine develops to find and investigate more efficient
alternate engine management.
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. The cars that increase in numbers every day emit toxic emissions gases on our highways and consume
huge amount of fossil fuels but oil and gas Res erves may last until 2042.Consequently, unconventional energy
sources must be increasingly harnessed. Because the low efficiency of compresses air engine(CAE) they were not
used for long time. The piston type CAE’s have been commonly used in high power machines that require a high
starting torque.
An Air driven engine makes use of Compressed air technology for its operation. Compressed air technology is now
widely preferred for research by different industries for developing different drives for different purposes. The
Compressed Air technology is quite simple. If we compress normal air into a cylinder, the air would hold some
energy within it. This energy can be utilized for useful purposes. When this compressed air expands, the energy is
released to do work. So, this energy in compressed air can also be utilized to displace a piston. This is the basic
working principle of the Air driven engine. It uses the expansion of compressed air to drive the pistons of the
engine. Therefore, anAir driven engine is basically a pneumatic actuator that creates useful work by expanding
compressed air. This work provided by the air is utilized to supply power to the crankshaft of the engine .
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