An innovation that uses air to produce power

Compressed air into high voltage electricity

The Gujarat Energy Research and Management Institute (GERMI) has developed an instrument to convert compressed air into high voltage electricity.

The instrument developed by a second year mechanical engineering student of Kanchipuram, Siddharth Machana, along with principal research scientist at the institute Omkar Jani, is expected to be highly cost-effective and more environment friendly than conventional batteries.

“This is just a prototype. We are working on how to produce high volume of electricity from it,” said Jani at a meet held to showcase the achievements of the institute. The institute has applied for a patent for this instrument. This is among the five innovations for which they have applied for a patent. Jani, however, clarified that this was not the first attempt in the world to convert compressed air to high voltage electricity. “But this is the first to use a unique combination of compressed air and spring to produce the energy with minimum loss,” he said.