ENERGY FROM MOVING VEHICLE
This project
developed a new alternative energy system that harvests mechanical
energy imparted to roadways, railways and runways from passing
vehicles and trains and converts it into green electricity. The
objective of this project is to generate energy from the moving
traffic on the road. Horizontal roller is connected with the dynamo.
Whenever vehicles passes through the road, horizontal roller will
move, dynamo will convert mechanical energy into electrical energy.
Generated electrical energy is used to charge DC battery. During the
night time street lights are run through the charged DC Battery.
Photovoltaic cells have been used to sense the light of the
surroundings. During the night time it gives signal to turn on Street
Light.
Moving roller is
connected to the dynamo. Dynamo converts mechanical energy produced
by the roller into the electrical energy. DC dynamo has been
connected to the DC battery which stores generated energy. Infrared
sensors are placed on the roadside. These sensors detect the presence
of vehicles. During night time, when there is no traffic half of the
street lights are turned on. Whenever there is significant traffic,
all the traffic lights are turned on. Photovoltaic cells have been
used to sense light of the surrounding. During the night time it
turns on the traffic light.
In this model we
show that how we can generate a voltage from the busy traffic.
Conversion of the mechanical energy into electrical energy is widely
used concept. It’s a mechanism to generate power by converting the
potential energy generated by a vehicle going up on a speed breaker
into rotational energy. We have used that simple concept to the
project. We connect one mechanical rod with the dynamo and fit this
rod on the surface of the road. When any vehicle moves from this
roller then due to friction, vehicle Rotate the rod or roller and
roller then move the dynamo. When dynamo move then it generates a
voltage and this voltage now connects to the bulbs. In actual
practice with the help of this voltage we will charge the battery and
then we use this voltage to light the small bulb.
