compressed air car
compressed air car
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has anyone seen an article on compressed air cars?
i think this might be an interesting backyard project.
i looked at building an electric car but the price for batteries is just nuts.
any thoughts?
i think this might be an interesting backyard project.
i looked at building an electric car but the price for batteries is just nuts.
any thoughts?





RE: compressed air car
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Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
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The main problem is that releasing the air from the high pressure tank cools it down.
This tends to freeze the engine up.
The overall efficiency is also poor for various obvious reasons.
That being said, compressed air storage is viable in some applications, particularly where a large reservoir of warm water is available to unfreeze things, or where range is relatively unimportant.
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if you let 3000 psi air down to atmospheric pressure, the exit temp would be about -215, sure hope you dried that air, so, multi-stage expanders are used with huge heaters between each stage.
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What would the torque curve look like? Hmmmmmmm
I don't know anything but the people that do.
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