” We have the honor to be graduated from the Islamic University with an utmost benefit of what we had been taught, hoping, the project, to reach a good rank of development with the most out of efforts,”one of the project’s members pleasantly said.
Four Mechanical Engineering Students have developed, for the first time in Gaza, a prototype for an air-pressure car which works with alternative fuel source instead of the fossil fuels that causes carbon emissions. The project’s great quest is to lessen the environmental pollution produced from ascended smokes of manufactures and cars. Moreover, this project comes as a new solution for the often increased taxes and prices of fossil fuels in Gaza.
The four students, supervised by prof. Juma Alaydi, are: Ismail Jarada, Muhannad Al Hayek, Mohammed Abu Muhaisen and Hussam Al-Astal said that the air- pressure car works on three bases: mechanical, control section-electric, and a fully air-operated section-noematic.
The first step is using an external compressor to pump the air inside 160-liters tank at 15-bar pressure. The pressure is controlled by an organizer to manage it reach 6 bar in all parts. The time and amount of air entry are controlled by a valve that allows air to enter from one entrance and exit from two at different times. These times are also controlled by a programmed electrical circuit.
The most important part of the project is the engine, in which a motorcycle engine was modified to work with air pressure instead of combustion. This can be done by replacing the entire engine head with Actuator, a piston allowing the previously controlled air to produce a fluctuating movement that will be soon converted into the rotational movement inside. Ultimately, a torque will be created to move the transmissions down to the main motion column in the back and then move the entire car.
“The project still not close at hands since it needs much improvements and incubation. The project has been built based on approved future plans for soaring the efficiency of the engine” the supervisor clarified.
