Literature Review, Actual Case Study and Experimental Setup for Automobile Flywheel

Abstract

Flywheel is a device to smoothen the cyclic fluctuation of speed change when delivering constant output power from the engine. Thus, a properly designed flywheel has to ensure the cyclic fluctuations of speed within prescribed limits preferably as small as possible. To counter the requirement of smoothing out the large oscillations in velocity during a cycle of a mechanism system, a flywheel is designed, optimized and analyzed. The main objective of our project is to reduce weight of automobile. If Engine Flywheel has more weight than its need, then it will decrease fuel efficiency. If engine flywheel has less weight than its need, it will consequently enhance speed fluctuation, Vibration and Noise. Researcher has taken up one case study of Tata truck (LPT2521BS IV) for weight optimization without changing energy storage capacity for future work. Paper focuses on 1. Literature review and weight reducing method based on it. 2. Actual case study and calculation 3. Test setup for energy storage checking of flywheel.