It is still a concept I am trying to develop. I just started on it yesterday with a friend of mine. I still need to confirm the tech aspects like the torque, rpm, engine size etc. I am looking for suggestions which could help me. I am not planning this for automotive use, I am more interested in developing a small engine for agricultural pumps.
Thank you
Why do you want to use compressed air? The whole point of using HC fuel is to use the latent energy. We are inputting lesser energy and we get more energy combusting the fuel. If you are using only compressed air, you are essentially losing energy to frictional loss.
Thats the reason i started it. I need to know or say need to work it out even though it has a long list of constraints. About energy out put...have you seen a jack hammer it works on compressed at at 5-8 Kg/cm. That does a lot of work doesnt it? As for the power required to compress the air...we need to come up with a solution. what are engineers for????
i just want to built a small CA engine capable of pumping water for agriculture. i live in a place where corps die due to lack of water not because we dont have water, because the farmers couldnt afford the bills. i just want to remove those bills from the equation.If i can.....
Thanks for the heads up Shashank Moghe
Looking forward for your help Zol Bahri Razali . Thank you
"A lot of work" does not quantify if it more than the inputted work. If you do not care about the energy conversion efficiency of the system, then it is fine. Engineers essentially work to optimize the system, engines signifying the epitome of that.
From what you described, it looks like all you need is a centrifugal pump, a low cost version at that.
Mr. Kasireddy i appreciate your study and kindly suggest to continue your work.
I completed my master thesis about Industrial Compressed Air Systems. Atmospheric air and electric energy are inputs of a compressor. At the end of compression you got hot compressed air. The thermal energy that show up in the compression is nearly %60-80 of electrical energy input while remaining energy is stored as compressed air. So the proces is inefficient.
If you have electricity in the farms using electricity to power pumps will be anyway cheaper than compressed air. See the figure 1 of below paper.
If you dont have electricity in the farm and the liquid fuels are expensive or you dont want to use them that make sense to use Compressed Air.
https://www.mendeley.com/catalog/decisionbased-analysis-compressed-air-usage-patterns-automotive-manufacturing/?utm_source=desktop&utm_medium=1.13.6&utm_campaign=open_catalog&userDocumentId=%7Bca17ebf0-8f7e-4edc-9178-798b737d23a1%7D
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