I am going to discuss with you a likely infeasable project involving a bicycle. I know it will be something very rare to listen to, but at the college level we brainstorm a lot and this is one of my ideas. Actually I am a great lover of cycling and so I like to work on the cycle projects.
In my third year I learned about the basic types of air compressors and one of the ideas which came into my mind was the use of a compressor as an auxiliary device in the cycle to run the bicycle, (for a certain moment to give a push to the cycle to reduce the effort on the pedaling) while driving up slopes.
The principle which came in my mind is like this "While driving the bicycle if someone gives a push from back we get the some relaxation on the pedal, as the torque which we have to give drive it from low speed reduces". The want to use the same principle by making the use of the air compressor. The idea is something like this – I attach a small compressor(rotary or centrifugal), to the shaft from which will run from the belt or chain from the rear wheel. Then the compression can take place and the storage of compressed air will be in a reservoir which will be attached to the cycle as shown in the figure. The end of tube from the reservoir will run the bladed wheel like the (turbine) attached to the rear wheel. The bladed wheel will have the attachment to the rear wheel same as the freewheel which will run only when the jet of air will impinge on the blade and bladed wheel will run the rear wheel, the rest of the time the bladed wheel will be free and will not interfere in the movement of the rear wheel during normal cycling.
Now of course, the problem are as follows:
Is it possible to have a compressor such as the one I suggested above?
Is the movement of the shaft of the air compressor from the rear wheel possible?
Is it possible to have the air pressure value which will run the bladed wheel by this compressor?
Is the reservoir of such kind possible, to what extent the weight of the bicycle will increase?
And overall, is it possible to run such a bicycle?
Even though I know that it is not feasible, I would like to go deep in this project as much as possible - maybe I may discover something new.
I am student of third year mechanical engineering, and in the fourth year I have project work, and would like to work on this concept. thank you for any help or suggestions that you can provide.
Yours student in cycling,
Solaank
(Mechanical)
Bicycle compressor
