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POWER GENERATION
USING SPEED BREAKERS
PRESENTED BY : HAILIN K BENNET
REG NO. : CIM17ME027
CLASS : S5 ME
GROUP NO. 10
 INTRODUCTION ABOUT THE
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PRODUCT
 This project attempts to show how energy can be tapped
and used at a commonly used system-the road speed-
breakers. The number of vehicles passing over the speed
breaker in roads is increasing day by day.
 A large amount of energy is wasted at the speed breakers
through the dissipation of heat and also through friction,
every time a vehicle passes over it.
 There is great possibility of tapping this energy and
generating power by making the speed-breaker as a power
generation unit.
 The generated power can be used for the lamps, near the
speed-breakers. Conversion of the mechanical energy into
electrical energy is widely used concept.
 Power by converting the potential energy generated by a
vehicle going up on a speed breaker into rotational energy.
 LITERATURE REVIEW
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 The energy crisis is a bottleneck in the supply of energy

resources to an economy. The studies to sort out the energy
crisis led to the idea of generating power using speed
breaker.
 First to make use were South African people, their electrical
crisis has made them to implement this method to light up small
villages of the highway.
 The idea of basic physics to convert the kinetic energy into
electrical energy that goes waste when the vehicle runs over
the speed-break was used.
 The idea caught our working team and we have decided to
develop such a project that will produce more power and store
it for use at night time as it proves to be a boon to the
economy of the country.
 WORKING PRINCIPLE
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 The reciprocating motion of the speed-breaker is converted into rotary

motion using the rack and pinion arrangement. The axis of the pinion is
coupled with the sprocket arrangement.
 The sprocket arrangement is made of two sprockets. One of larger size and
the other of smaller size. Both the sprockets are connected by means of a
chain which serves in transmitting power from the larger sprocket to the
smaller sprocket.
 As the power is transmitted from the larger sprocket to the smaller sprocket,
the speed that is available at the larger sprocket is relatively multiplied at
the rotation of the smaller sprocket.
 The axis of the smaller sprocket is coupled to a fly wheel. The fly wheelis
coupled to the shaft at axis of the smaller sprocket.
 Hence the speed that has been multiplied at the smaller sprocketwheel is
passed on to this flywheel of larger dimension. The smaller sprocket is
coupled to the larger fly wheel.
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 So as the larger fly wheelrotates at the multiplied speed of the

smaller sprocket, the smaller sprocket following the larger
sprocket still multiplies the speed to more intensity.
 The speed due to the rotary motion achieved at the larger
sprocket wheel is less, as the power is transmitted to fly wheel,
finally the speed is multiplied to a higher speed.
 This speed which is sufficient to rotate a shaft connected to
generator. The rotor (shaft) rotates the generator. The generator
produces the DC current.
 This DC currentis now sent to the storage battery where it is
stored during the day time.
 This current is then utilized in the night time for lighting purposes
on the either sides of the road to a considerable distance.
 BLOCK DIAGRAM
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Rack
&
Speed Pinion and Flywheel
breaker Chain
arrangem sprocket
ent arrangem
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Generator

Street Inverter Battery

Lights
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 BENEFIT FROM THIS INNOVATION
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 Power generation with low cost and using non-conventional

energy sources which will help us to conserve the
conventional energy sources to meet the future demand.
 By using this method, electricity will be generated
throughout the year without depending on other factors.
 Easy for maintenance and no fuel transportation problem.
 Pollution free power generation.
 Less floor area required and no obstruction to traffic.
 No need of manpower during power generation.
 REFERENCES
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 International Journal of Advanced Research in Electrical,

Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering(An ISO
3297:2007 Certified Organization) Vol. 4, Issue 5, May
2015 : “Electricity Generation by Speed Breaker”
 Department of Mechanical EngineeringQueen’s Building,
University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 1TR, UK
 A Textbook of Machine Design by R.S.KHURMI AND
J.K.GUPTA.
 Sharma.P.C , Principle of renewable energy systems (Public
printing service, New Delhi, 2003).
 Sharma.P.C, Non-Conventional power plants (Public
printing service, New Delhi, 2003).
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