Combined Pneumatic/Hydraulic Vehicle

气动/液压组合车

• 批准号: 10043919
• 金额: $ 6.36万
• 依托单位: O2HP LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Grant for R&D
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10043919
• 关键词: Combined; Pneumatic; Hydraulic; Vehicle

Whilst innovation in battery technology and semiconductors will continue to incrementally drive down the price of renewable energy cars, there is little hope in the next ten years of this technology producing a vehicle suitable for use in the third world (and indeed in the poorer parts of the first world). Electric cars are (and will continue to be) significantly more expensive than ICE cars for at least another decade, indeed currently the price of semiconductors and lithium are increasing substantially. The search for alternatives has included significant drawbacks which have proved to be difficult to overcome: Hydrogen; The energy density is low and fuel cells are even more expensive than batteries; Hydraulic; energy storage potential is low and significant heat is generated, leading to energy loss through cooling; Pneumatic; energy loss in the system is expressed a cold (when re-using the stored energy), additional energy is lost in heating the system to prevent it freezing up.This project seeks to produce a Proof of Concept (POC) for a combined hydraulic/pneumatic system, using an 'air battery' to store energy.This process may not be as efficient as a battery/electric vehicle, but it will be SIGNIFICANTLY cheaper to build in volume. The air storage tanks can be fabricated very cheaply and hydraulic/pneumatic pumps are substantially cheaper to build than ICE engines and battery electric drives. In addition a significant portion of the third world inhabits coastal regions where wind is usually plentiful, a wind powered air compressor is a relatively cheap machine that would provide free energy to the users of these vehicles.Since this technology has no exact automotive precedent, it is difficult to accurately simulate the process. Therefore, the plan is to build a free standing POC which will enable us to accurately measure the input and output energy of the system which will help us build the database required to accurately simulate the drive system for future development.

虽然电池技术和半导体的创新将继续逐步降低可再生能源汽车的价格，但在未来十年内，这项技术几乎没有希望生产出适合第三世界（实际上是第一世界较贫困地区）使用的汽车。电动汽车至少在未来十年内（并将继续）比ICE汽车昂贵得多，事实上，目前半导体和锂的价格正在大幅上涨。对替代品的研究包括已被证明难以克服的重大缺点：氢;能量密度低，燃料电池甚至比电池更昂贵;液压;能量储存潜力低，产生大量热量，导致通过冷却损失能量;气动;系统中的能量损失表示为冷（当重新使用存储的能量时），在加热系统以防止其冻结的过程中损失了额外的能量。该项目旨在为组合式液压/气动系统提供概念验证（POC），使用“空气电池”来储存能量。这个过程可能不如电池/电动汽车有效，但批量生产会便宜得多。空气储存罐可以非常便宜地制造，液压/气动泵的制造成本远远低于ICE发动机和电池电力驱动。此外，第三世界的很大一部分居住在沿海地区，那里的风力通常很充足，风力驱动的空气压缩机是一种相对便宜的机器，可以为这些车辆的用户提供免费的能源。由于这项技术没有确切的汽车先例，因此很难准确地模拟这个过程。因此，计划是建立一个独立的POC，这将使我们能够准确地测量系统的输入和输出能量，这将有助于我们建立准确模拟驱动系统所需的数据库，以供未来开发。