Design and Analysis of A Compressed Air Vehicle

Abstract

Global climate change is the most pressing issue facing the entire globe.Vehicles are one of the primary contributors of pollution. As a result, non-conventional fuels must be substituted for conventional fuels. Compressed air is one such alternate fuel. This is a clean, simple, and safe fuel that has no negative impact on the environment.The purpose of this research is to investigate compressed air as a vehicle fuel. A compressor fills compressed air with electrical energy. When calculating total efficiency,the electricity required to compress air must be taken into account. The air engine is now the most often utilized mechanism for converting compressed air potential energy into mechanical energy.Nonetheless, the compressed air vehicle will help to reduce air pollution and eventually reach zero, as well as promote a healthy environment. There is no combustion taking place there. Light utility vehicles are gradually gaining popularity as a means of short-distance mobility.Witheach passingdecade, the information on air quality allows for continuously improving decisions that have led to a much cleaner atmosphere by making pollution sources of earlier decades become obsolete The current fossil fuel energy sources are rapidly depleting and their combustion products contribute to the major environmental and health problems. It is,therefore,necessary to look for adopting renewable sources of energy as an alternative which in turn reduces pollution and avoids the consumption of nonrenewable fuel sources. This project shows a prototype design of a vehicle that uses compressed air as a source of power tomove. The atmospheric air is compressed to very high pressure and sent to the engine for power production. The car’s components are designed and their properties are provided using Solid works design and simulation. Some of the part’s dimensions and parameters are calculated by hand calculation.In the later part of this project, research has been done on how the actual compressed airvehicles were effective so far, the recent development ofthissystem, and how can wemake the technology more compact and efficient.