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Hindawi Publishing Corporation International Journal of Rotating Machinery Volume 2012, Article ID 578745, 10 pages doi:10.1155/2012/578745 Research Article A Study of Performance Output of a Multivane Air Engine Applying Optimal Injection and Vane Angles Bharat Raj Singh1 and Onkar Singh2 1 Department of Mechanical Engineering, SMS Institute of Technology, Kashimpur Biruha, Lucknow 227125, India 2 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Harcourt Butler Technological Institute, Nawabganj, Kanpur 208002, India Correspondence should be addressed to Bharat Raj Singh, brsinghlko@ Received 5 October 2011; Revised 12 March 2012; Accepted 15 March 2012 Academic Editor: Mustafa Canakci Copyright © 2012 B. R. Singh and O. Singh. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. This paper presents a new concept of the air engine using compressed air as the potential power source for motorbikes, in place of an internal combustion engine. The motorbike is proposed to be equipped with an air engine, which transforms the energy of the compressed air into mechanical motion energy. A mathematical model is presented here, and performance evaluation is carried out on an air-powered novel air turbine engine. The maximum power output is obtained as 3.977 kW (5.50 HP) at the different rotor to casing diameter ratios, optimal injection angle 60◦, vane angle 45◦ for linear expansion (i.e., at minimum air consumption) when the casing diameter is kept 100 mm, at injection pressure 6 bar (90 psi) and speed of rotation 2500 rpm. A prototype air engine is built and tested in the laboratory. The experimental results are also seen much clo