VISVESVARAYA TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY

JNANA SANGAMA, BELGAUM

A Project report on
WIND DRIVEN GENERATOR AS AN AUXILIARY POWER SOURCE
FOR AUTOMOBILES
Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award of degree of
BACHELOR OF ENGINEERING
In
INSTRUMENTATION TECHNOLOGY
Submitted By
PRATYUSH CHAND KAUSHIK
SAGAR SHRESTHA
SYED TAHA ABBAS ZAIDI

(1DS10IT033)
(1DS10IT043)
(1DS10IT056)

Under the guidance of

Mr. Gopalaiah
Asst. Professor, Department of Instrumentation Technology

DEPARTMENT OF INSTRUMENTATION TECHNOLOGY

DAYANANDA SAGAR COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

SHAVIGE MALLESHWARA HILLS, KUMARSWAMY LAYOUT, BANGALORE-78
2013-2014

DAYANANDA SAGAR COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

Shavige Malleshwara Hills, Kumaraswamy Layout, Bangalore-560078

Department of Instrumentation Technology

2013-2014

Certificate
Certified that the Project Work entitled WIND DRIVEN GENERATOR AS AN
AUXILIARY POWER SOURCE FOR AUTOMOBILES is a bonafide work carried
out by Mr. PRATYUSH CHAND KAUSHIK (1DS10IT033), Mr. SAGAR
SHRESTHA (1DS10IT043) and Mr. SYED TAHA ABBAS ZAIDI (1DS10IT056) in
partial fulfilment for the

award of Bachelor of Engineering in Instrumentation

Technology of the Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belgaum during the year

2013-2014. It is certified that all the corrections or suggestions indicated for the internal
assessment have been incorporated in the report deposited in the departmental library.
The Project Report has been approved as it satisfies the academic requirements in respect
of Project Work prescribed for the Bachelor of Engineering degree.

Signature of the Guide

Mr. Gopalaiah
Asst. Professor, Dept. of IT
DSCE, Bangalore

Signature of the HOD

Prof. Rajashekhar J S
HOD, Dept. of IT
DSCE Bangalore

Signature of the Principal

Dr.A.N.N.Murthy
Principal
DSCE Bangalore

External Viva

Name of the examiners

1.
2.

Signature with date

ABSTRACT
Increasing use of gasoline powered vehicles significantly contribute to environmental
pollution, noise and depletion of crude resources. Wind powered vehicles utilize a
controllable shrouded wind operated turbine and generate electricity when the vehicle is in
motion.

Wind-powered vehicles primarily use wind turbines installed at a strategic point of the
vehicle i.e. roof, front grills, side doors, etc. The wind power, which is used to provide
mechanical energy to a dynamo shaft, is then converted into electrical energy. This energy
is then stored into a battery with the help of proper electric circuitry.

Our project throws a light on the ways to harness the wind available during the travel of a
vehicle and conversion and storage of the energy generated into battery, as well as the
application of model as an auxiliary source of power for Electric vehicles.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Any work of significance requires a great deal of effort and time put together into
it. However a factor of even greater significance is efficient guidance and
encouragement. In spite of all our dedicated labour, the project could not have been
completed without the continuous help and guidance provided by people who gave
their unending support right from the moment this project idea was conceived.

A project is not complete if one fails to acknowledge all those individuals who have
been instrumental in the successful completion of the project.

We express our sincere gratitude to Dr. A.N.N.Murthy, Principal of our college for
his advice and guidance that helped us to complete the project with success.

We would like to express our profound and sincere gratitude to our guide, Mr.
Gopalaiah, Asst. Professor, Department of Instrumentation Technology, for his
excellent and timely guidance, constant encouragement and the essence of
perfection that he brought into this project.

Finally, we would like to extend our gratitude to Prof. Rajashekhar J S, HOD,

Department of Instrumentation Technology, for his valuable inputs and progressive
guidance.

Pratyush Chand Kaushik (1DS10IT033)

II

Sagar Shrestha

(1DS10IT043)

Syed Taha Abbas Zaidi

(1DS10IT056)

CONTENTS
TITLE

PAGE NO.

ABSTRACT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . II
LIST OF FIGURES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . III
LIST OF TABLES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . IV
CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-4
1.1 Objective. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
1.2 Literature Survey. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

CHAPTER 2: BLOCK DIAGRAM AND

DESCRIPTION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-12
2.1 Block Diagram. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6
2.2 Blades. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7
2.3 Dynamo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
2.4 Regulator. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
2.5 Grippometer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9
2.6 Comparator. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10
2.7 Microcontroller. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10
2.8 LCD Display. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12
2.9 Dump Load. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12
2.10 Relay. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12
2.11 Power Supply. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

CHAPTER 3: HARDWARE SPECIFICATIONS13-39

3.1 Electronic Circuits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
3.1.1 Power Supply Circuit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14
3.1.2 Voltage Regulator Circuit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
3.1.3 Comparator. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19
3.1.3 Relays. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25
3.2 Microcontroller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
3.2.1 Circuit Description. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
3.2.2 Pin details. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
3.3 LCD Display. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

CHAPTER 4: SOFTWARE OVERVIEW. . . . . . . . . . 40-49

4.1 KEIL Software. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .41
4.1.1 C Programming and KEIL overview. . . . .41
4.1.2 Steps in KEIL Compiler. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
4.2 FLASH MAGIC Software. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
CHAPTER 5: ADVANTAGES AND
DISADVANTAGES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .50-51
CHAPTER 6:OBSERVATIONS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .52-53

CHAPTER 7: CONCLUSIONS AND SCOPE OF

FUTURE WORK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54-55
CHAPTER 8: BIBLIOGRAPHY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56-57

CHAPTER 9: APPENDIX

APPENDIX A: IC LM 317
APPENDIX B: IC MC1458P
APPENDIX C: 78XX VOLTAGE REGULATOR
APPENDIX D: MCT2E OPTOCOUPLERS
APPENDIX E: 89C51 MICROCONTROLLER
APPENDIX F: IC LM 3914

LIST OF FIGURES:

PAGE NO.

2.1: Functional Block Diagram of Wind Driven

Generator for Automobiles. 6
2.2: Microcontroller Chip. 11

3.1: Power Supply Circuit.14

3.2: 78XX series Regulators.16
3.3: Voltage Regulator Circuit . 17
3.4: Comparator Circuit 19
3.5: MCT2E Optocoupler.22
3.6: Relay Switches. 27
3.7: 5-pin Relay Switch. 27
3.8: Pin Diagram of 89C51 Microcontroller 30
3.9: Power Supply to Microcontroller 31
3.10: LCD Display35
3.11: LCD Instruction Write Cycle. 37
3.12: Interfacing 89C51 with LCD.. 39

4.1 Flow Chart..42

4.2: Creating New Project 44
4.3: Device Selection.. 45
4.4: Hex File Generation.. 45
4.5: Adding new Source file.. 46
4.6: Flash Magic Screenshot. 48

III

LIST OF TABLES:

PAGE NO.

3.1: Parts List of Power Supply Board.. 17

3.2: Table for Parts list of Comparator Circuit 24
3.3: Parts of Power supply board for Microcontroller. 31
3.4: Pin Details of LCD Display.. 36
3.5: LCD Instructions... 38

6.1: Dynamo Specifications..53

6.2: Observation Table.53

IV