AÑO
2019
CATEGORÍA
Comunidad
OBJETIVOS
Energía asequible y no contaminante
PAL. CLAVE
Air-battery, Air-engine, cleantech
PAÍS
United Kingdom
CRÉDITOS
Tony Dye is the inventor of the EpiQair engine. It evolved from earlier application of his novel paired rotors with lobe and pocket profiles in a novel efficient rotary internal combustion engine. In 2013, the potential of liquid air energy storage was first published and Tony’s project was re-directed to developing the ultimate air powered engine. In 2018, Tony demonstrated the feasibility of the engine to deliver power at ambient temperature via its unique isothermal expansion process.
LINK
http://www.epicam.co.uk
EpiQair – The clean engine to power the world.
The EpiQair engine can deliver all the heat, power and light we want from air without any combustion
The EpiQair engine delivers power from a cryogenic air cycle energised by renewable wind and solar energy with storage and regeneration in a system capable of replacing all terrestrial power technologies depending on fossil carbon combustion. The key to its secret lies in the expansion during phase change when air boils and passes from liquid to gas state. This produces pressure analogous to steam engines which powered trains and ships for 100 years. It introduces a new era of zero carbon engines with scalability to meet all requirements for industrial, domestic power and heat and all terrestrial and marine transport applications.
The energy is stored in 2 forms, cold as liquid air and heat from compression during liquefaction. The engine converts supercritical air from warmed liquid air to shaft power in an isothermal expansion process which makes best use of the stored heat. The result is compact rotary engines with power density greater than internal combustion engines.