ATMOSPHERIC VORTEX ENGINE

(AVE)
SHAILENDRA TIWARI & YOGENDRA VYAS (B.E. MECH 5TH SEM)

MITS GWALIOR,AFFLIATED TO RGPV

ABSTRACT
THE TROPICAL
CYCLONE has huge
energy in it. A single
hurricane can produce
the electricity produced in
a year just by using
renewable energy
resources like solar
energy. The idea is to
create the same cyclone
in a controlled manner to
produce energy from
warm sea water ,waste
heat from thermal power
plant or warming the
water by solar energy.
Louis Michaud first
proposed a model for this
and named it as
atmospheric vortex
engine(AVE). This works
on the principal of
thermal convection and
turbines at the periphery
of the circular chamber
rotates due to the
pressure difference
between the bottom of
the vortex and ambient
air(due to the column of
hot air in vortex & cold air
outside). To start the
vortex initially hot air is
forced into the chamber
but once established
vortex draws air in itself
which is heated from the
sources mentioned
above by cooling tower or
heat exchanger located
in the downstream of the
turbine. The model has
yet attained the max.
Height of 20m but it has
potential to attain the
height upto tropopause
and then will give work
10 times more than solar
chimneys or nearby to
thermal powerplant. It
can convert heat from
power plant waste into
work wilth 20% efficiency.
The vortex can be
controlled by passing
cold air or giving anti
rotation. It can be a
source of green energy &
clean energy in future.

INTRODUCTION
Atmospheric Vortex Engine is a model of
a device for producing Mechanical Energy
by means of controlled TORNADO LIKE
VORTEX introduced first by LM
MICHAUD working on the principal of
hurricanes i.e thermal convection of air.
Turbo expanders at the bottom of the
circular chamber rotates due to the flow of
air through it due to the pressure
difference generated at the bottom of the
vortex and the ambient air.
After this air gets heat from the warm sea
water, waste heat of thermal power plant
etc through cooling tower or heat
exchanger located at the downstream of
the turbo expanders and go into the
vortex and make it sustained. THE
VORTEX CAN BE CONTROLLED by
admitting cold air or giving it opposite
rotation. Vortex cannot start by itself so to
start it some initial heat energy is given to
it and forced to go into the engine but as it
sustains it woks itself.
The Circular wall could have a diameter
of 200m & 50 m high, open from the top.
and Vortex could be 50m in diametre at its
base and extends upto tropopause. The
system would generate 50-500MW of
electrical power.
Its height can be extended to tropopause
as it has no need of physical wall except
circular wall which is only 50m high due to
which it can produce huge energy far from
that of any solar chimney working on the
same principal.

PROCESS
The Vortex is started by temporary heating the
air and electrically driving the turbines as fans.
Then the hot air is made to enter in the
cylindrical wall through the tangential vanes
creating circulation similarly as in boilers. And as
the air is lighter it rises creating the pressure
difference between the bottom of the vortex and
the Ambient air due to the hot air column in the
engine and cold air column outside. The heat
required to sustain the Vortex once established
can be provided in a peripheral heat exchanger
located outside the circular wall. The heat source
for the peripheral exchanger can warm sea
water or waste industrial heat. The peripheral
heat exchanger can be cooling tower or a dry
fined tube heat exchanger. The mechanical
energy is produced in a plurality of peripheral
turbo-expanders.

DISCUSSION

LM Michaud has made 7 prototypes and the

maximum height achieved by him is 20 m .
The principal of solar chimney etc is same but
the energy produced depends on height which
is limited there by physical walls but in AVE the
physical wall is replaced by the centripetal
force produced by the spiraling upward flow .
And thus it can be extended upto tropopause.

RESULT

The thermal power plant producing 500MW of

electricity wastes about 1000MW of heat. Using
AVE in the plant recover 200MW of electricity
from waste heat.
Work produced in AVE is 10 times more than
that in solar chimney and nearby of that in
CONCLUSIONS
thermal power plant.

CONCLUSION

Fig1. Label in 25pt Arial.

The energy potential of

AVE is huge and may be
used to convert the solar
energy ,industrial waste
into work in an efficient
way.
If the method proposed in
AVE implemented can be
the good source of green
and clean energy in
future.

REFERENCES
1. Research Paper By
LOUIS M MICHAUD on
AVE.
1.) AVE side view (top fig.)
2.) Conceptual Illustration Of a Vortex
Engine By LOUIS MICHAUD.Diametre
200m.(bottom fig.)

2. WIKIPEDIA.

TEQIP-II Sponsored one day workshop on Innovations in Energy October 3, 2015

Organized by
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Madhav Institute of Technology & Science,Gwalior-05
(An Autonomous Government Aided Institute affiliated to RGPV, Bhopal)