Methods to evaluate and measure power of pneumatic system and their applications

Y Shi, M Cai, W Xu, Y Wang - Chinese Journal of Mechanical Engineering, 2019 - Springer
Pneumatic system has been widely used throughout industry, and it consumes more than
billions kW h of electricity one year all over the world. So as to improve the efficiency of …

Energy conversion characteristics of a hydropneumatic transformer in a sustainable-energy vehicle

Y Shi, T Wu, M Cai, Y Wang, W Xu - Applied Energy, 2016 - Elsevier
As a type of sustainable energy, compressed air energy can be used to drive vehicles, which
is applicable to situations requiring explosion prevention and no pollution emissions …

Modeling and dynamic analysis on the direct operating solenoid valve for improving the performance of the shifting control system

X Xu, X Han, Y Liu, Y Liu, Y Liu - Applied Sciences, 2017 - mdpi.com
The dynamic characteristics and energy loss in a shifting control system is important and
necessary in the performance improvement of an automatic transmission. The direct …

Analysis of the energy efficiency of a pneumatic booster regulator with energy recovery

F Yang, K Tadano, G Li, T Kagawa - Applied Sciences, 2017 - mdpi.com
Pneumatic booster regulators (PBR) are in great demand in modern pneumatic systems for
their energy-saving abilities. A new booster regulator with energy recovery (VBA-R) was …

Power characteristics of a new kind of air‐powered vehicle

Y Shi, Y Wang, H Liang, M Cai - International Journal of Energy …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Nowadays, hydropneumatic transformer (short for HP transformer) is widely used as the
main part of the power system of air‐powered vehicles to pump pressurized hydraulic oil …

Dimensionless study on efficiency and speed characteristics of a compressed air engine

Q Yu, M Cai, Y Shi, C Yuan - Journal of Energy …, 2015 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
To eliminate the pollutants exhausting, this paper presents an idea of using compressed air
as the power source for engines. Instead of an internal combustion (IC) engine, this …

Influence Analysis and Performance Optimization of a Pneumatic Actuator Exhaust Utilization System

Q Yu, F Li, X Tan - Strojniški vestnik-Journal of Mechanical …, 2023 - 193.2.78.197
Due to the loss of exhaust energy, the compressed air energy utilization efficiency in
pneumatics system is low. To realize the recovery and utilization of cylinder compressed air …

Conventional and Advanced Exergy Analyses of Industrial Pneumatic Systems

Z Zhao, Z Wang, H Wang, H Zhu, W Xiong - Energies, 2023 - mdpi.com
Pneumatic systems are widely used in industrial manufacturing sectors. However, the
energy efficiency of pneumatic systems is generally much lower than their hydraulic and …

Experimental study of a new pneumatic actuating system using exhaust recycling

Q Yu, J Zhai, Q Wang, X Zhang, X Tan - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
Pneumatic actuating systems are an important power system in industrial applications. Due
to exhaust loss, however, pneumatic actuating systems have suffered from a low utilization …

Output dynamic control of a late model sustainable energy automobile system with nonlinearity

M Cai, Y Wang, Y Shi, H Liang - Advances in Mechanical …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Air-liquid pressurization convertor has been applied in energy boosting which is widely used
in sustainable energy automobile. In this article, output dynamic control method is analyzed …