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Generation of electricity by Speed breakers

-This is a power project based on the fact that how electricity can be generated with the help of speed breaker by making gear arrangement and using electronics gadgets, thus a huge amount of electricity can be generated saving lot of money. And if implemented will be very beneficial for Government.

Generation of electricity by Speed breakers:


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ELECTRICITY GENERATION FROM SPEED BREAKER


Power Generation Under-Graduate

By s.pranav kumar ~ Posted Fri, 06/05/2011 - 23:50 The demand for power is increasing enormously.... So there is a need to generate power from every possible means rather than solely depending on power generaton from power plants.. Hence i would like to present an idea of generatng electric power at low cost using simple mechanism of converting mechanical energy to electrical energy..

The idea is '"Generating electric power from speed breakers"

i.e, To generate electricity using the vehicle weight (potential energy) as input...As already known we need a generator to generate electricty and obviously the prime mover to it will be the vehicle weight.

then the generated elecctricity is stored in batteries and will be further used for various purposes like lighting up the street lamps, providing power to the nearby slums at low cost etc...

>Thus this project accomplishes


Low Budget electricity production Less floor area No obstruction to traffic Easy maintenance Suitable at parking of multiplexes, malls, toll booths, signals, etc. Uses: Charging batteries and using them to light up the streets, etc.

procedure:: Possible using 3 different mechanisms: I.Crank-shaft mechanism II.Roller mechanism

III.Rack- Pinion mechanism Rack-pinion mechanism is better to prefer because of the following reasons:: >>Crank-shafts are required to be mounted on bearings which creates balancing problem leading to mechanical vibrations which in turn damage the bearings. Secondly as bearings are of sliding type, any occurrence of variable load( which is bit obvious in caseof vehicles!!) leads to balancing problem >>Roller mechanism has some different disadvantages. Maintenance will be very difficult Might cause collision. >>Rack-Pinion assembly gives good mounting convenience Maximum gear losses 3 to 5% Efficiency 95%

>>A dc generator whose shaft is coupled to the roller mechanism is used for
generating electrical output. Selection of springs. Achieving proper balance of speed and torque....should be taken care to yield better efficiency..

Future Scope:: Such speed breakers can be designed for heavy vehicles, thus increasing input torque and ultimately output of generator. More suitable and compact mechanisms to enhance efficiency.

http://www.techno-preneur.net/technology/tech-trends/Machines/generating.htm Generating Electricity from Speed Breakers Next time on the roads, don't scoff at the speed-breakers. They could actually light up small villages off the highway. An amateur innovator in Guwahati has developed a simple contraption that can generate power when a vehicle passes over a speed breaker. Kanak Gogoi, a small time businessman, has developed a mechanism to generate power by converting the potential energy generated by a vehicle going up on a speed breaker into kinetic energy. The innovation has caught the eye of the Indian Institute of Technology (iit), Guwahati, which will fund a pilot project to generate electricity from speed-breakers.

The idea is basic physics. Gogoi has welded five-metre-long metal plates into the speedbreaker instead of the conventional bitumen-and-stone-chip rumble strip. The plates are movable and inclined with the help of a spring-loaded hydraulic system. The fulcrumattached plates are pushed down when a vehicle moves over them and bounce back to original position as it passes. "When the vehicle moves over the inclined plates, it gains height resulting in increase in potential energy, which is wasted in a conventional rumble strip," Gogoi says. "When the plates come down, they crank a lever fitted to a ratchet-wheel type mechanism. This in turn rotates a geared shaft loaded with recoil springs. The output of this shaft is coupled to a dynamo to convert kinetic energy into electricity," he explains. iit Guwahati has evaluated the machine and recommended it to the Assam ministry of power for large scale funding. A K Das, a professor at iit's design department says it is a 'very viable proposition' to harness thousands of mega watts of electricity untapped across the country every day. "A vehicle weighing 1,000 kg going up a height of 10 cm on such a rumble strip produces approximately 0.98 kilowatt power. So one such speed-breaker on a busy highway, where about 100 vehicles pass every minute, about one kilo watt of electricity can be produced every single minute. The figure will be huge at the end of the day," he said. The Assam power ministry is expected to back the iit pilot project. Das says a storage module like an inverter will have to be fitted to each such rumble strip to store this electricity. The cost of electricity generation and storage per mega watt from speed-breakers will be nearly Rs 1 crore as opposed to about Rs 8 crore in thermal or hydro power stations.

RE: power generation using speed breaker Abstract This project harvests energy from speed breaker by making gear arrangement and using electronics gadgets. Large amounts amount of electricity can be generated saving lot of money. And if implemented will be very beneficial for Government. When vehicle is in motion it produces various forms of energy like, due to friction between vehicles wheel and road i.e. rough surface HEAT Energy is produced, also when vehicle traveling at high speed strikes the wind. The principle involved is POTENTIAL ENERGY TO ELECTRICAL ENERGY CONVERSION. There is a

system to generate power by converting the potential energy generated by a vehicle going up on a speed breaker into kinetic energy. When the vehicle moves over the inclined plates, it gains height resulting in increase in potential energy, which is wasted in a conventional rumble strip. When the breaker comes down, they crank a lever fitted to a ratchet-wheel type mechanism (a angular motion converter) which in turn rotates a geared shaft loaded with recoil springs. The output of this shaft is coupled to a dynamo to convert kinetic energy into electricity. Reference: http://www.seminarprojects.com/Thread-power-generation-using-speedbreaker#ixzz1RKoIVNre ELECTRICITY GENERATION FROM SPEED BREAKER Advantages: -Low Budget electricity production -No obstruction to traffic -Less floor area -maintenance is very easy -multiplexes, malls, toll booths, signals, etc can make use of this system. It can be used for Charging batteries and using them to light up the streets, etc. Principle of operation: Simple conversion from Mechanical energy to Electrical energy. It Generates electricity using the vehicle weight (potential energy) as input. The 3 different mechanisms proposed are: -Roller mechanism -Crank-shaft mechanism -Rack- Pinion mechanism: This mechanism is most popularly used. This is because of the disadvantages of other mechanisms: Crank-shafts are required to be mounted on bearings which creates balancing problem leading to mechanical vibrations which in turn damage the bearings.Secondly as bearings

are of sliding type, any occurrence of variable load( which is bit obvious in case of vehicles!!) leads to balancing problem. In the case of roller mechanism, Maintenance will be very difficult and it Might cause collision. The Rack-Pinion assembly gives good mounting convenience . Te efficiency is 95% with 3-5% gear losses. For more, check out this link: http://www.aarewah.com/uploads/TechnoCra...trical.ppt This forum lists some users who have practically done this project with their emails. Just post there for help: http://cr4.globalspec.com/thread/45233/g...ed-breaker Reference: http://www.seminarprojects.com/Thread-power-generation-using-speedbreaker#ixzz1RKoOT3bu

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