ELECTRICITY

GENERATION FROM SPEED

BREAKER
Introduction:
Is anyone happy with current situation of
electricity in India???
So, this is our small step to try to
improve this situation by our project.
First of all what does electricity mean to
us???
Electricity- secondary source of energy
i.e. converted from other sources.
We need it for every small thing, still
notice its importance only during load
shedding.
OBJECTIVES:
Shaping Imagination
Electricity-Need of the hour



Scope, Merits and Uses
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.
BASIC PRINCIPLE:
Simple energy conversion from
Mechanical to Electrical.
To generate electricity using the
vehicle weight (potential energy) as
input
Possible using 3 different
mechanisms:
I. Crank-shaft mechanism
II. Roller mechanism
III. Rack- Pinion mechanism
Why Rack- Pinion
mechanism??

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.
Roller mechanism has some different
disadvantages.



Maintenance will be very difficult
Might cause collision.

What we did???



Rack-Pinion assembly gives good
mounting convenience
Maximum gear losses 3 to 5%
Efficiency 95%


Construction of generator:
Initial experiments- DC motor as
Generator
How is electricity generated???
Basic principle of generation of
electricity.
What we did???


Challenges we faced!!
Selecting suitable generator.
Selection of springs.
Achieving proper balance of speed
and torque.

What we achieved???
We LEARNT a lot.
Constructed our own generator by
applying the basic principle.
Although we got less electrical output,
we have successfully explained our
idea of generating electricity from
speed breaker.

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.