Optimization in Compressed Air Vehicle

To meet the increasing demand for the fossil fuel consumption with increasing population and automobiles, various advancements such as hybrid electric vehicles, solar vehicles, hydrogen fuel cell powered vehicles are being attained in automobile sector. Also the increasing level of automobile pollutants and global warming due to increase in the percentage of CO2 demands a cleaner technology like Compressed Air Technology (C.A.T). The C.A.T which aims at using compressed air as a fuel for running the automobiles has been in development for so many years. It derives its principle from steam engine in which the potential energy of steam is converted into kinetic energy. Here air substitutes steam. This aims at overcoming all the above cited constraints and applying the technology to take the automotive world one step forward. This paper is all about converting an existing two stroke petrol engine into an engine which is powered only by a single source, namely compressed air. The air engine besides being an effective renewable alternative energy, it also aids to minimize the pollution level (eco-friendly) since exhaust of which contains nothing but cold air. This qualifies it to be a zero pollution vehicle.