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BICYCLE POWER GENERATION AND ITS FEASIBILITY

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 BICYCLE POWER GENERATION
AND ITS FEASIBILITY

Mr. J. SUNIL M.E., (Ph.D). B.SATHIYA PRIYAN, L. ANISH ANTO.

Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering L. MUTHUVEL, T. ARUN DANIEL
V V college of Engineering UG Students, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Tisaiyanvilai, India V V College of Engineering
[email protected] Tisaiyanvilai, India
[email protected] , [email protected] ,
[email protected] , [email protected]

Abstract
II. CONSTRUCTION
The present life of the people is running with
The entire design of bicycle power generation and its
unavoidable frequent power cuts of about three hours per day feasibility includes; Battery, Generator, Bicycle, Sprocket,
and which is hardly controlled by wealthiest using electrical invertor board, Stand for Generator, Belt (type of belt) and
power generators and not by middle order people. In order to Chain. The back wheel of the bicycle coupled with the
overcome this problem by the middle class and below average generator through belt. The belt is placed over the rim of the
people, in this project, bicycle pedaling concept is wheel. on the other side the belt placed over the
generator through the battery and inverter board are
employed to develop an electrical power which can be used
connected in series. The two terminals from the generator
for cooking food especially at the time of power cut. The connected with battery. The battery is used to store the
bicycle pedaling converts the mechanical energy into electrical electricity. as the current produced in the D.C form it can
energy through manually. In our project, the bicycle be directly stored in the battery. The inverter board is
generators is placed in Gym, and its function and coupled with the battery to convert the D.C current to
feasibility analyzed. A.C current. Finally the inverter board is connected with
the power terminal for power supply. Scamatic diagram of
Keywords: Bicycle, Electric power, Pedal, Electrical the experimental setup is shown in the fig.1.
energy

I. INTRODUCTION
The word energy means required to do work. The
world fills with many energies and energy resources.
Electricity is the main energy which make the world run
every day, without the electricity can‟t do any work and
the world will struggle. This project concentrates on the
production of electricity with minimal cost and available
resources. This is mainly used for producing the electrical
power. It is manually operated power system. This report
describes the design and analysis of bicycle generator and its
feasibility. This resulting machine known as dual purpose
bicycle can be used to power numeric small scale mechanical
devices electrical generator and availability of small machine
tools. The dual purpose bicycle can be converted from its
transportation mode to its pedal power mode or vice versa Fig. 1. Scamatic diagram of the experimental setup
with a matter of minute. To study about the bicycle generator
and its feasibility this study was carried out.
 III. MAIN COMPONENTS

A. Bicycle
A bicycle is a human-powered, pedal-driven, Bicycle usage Time(hrs) Power(Watts-hr)
single-track vehicle having two wheels attached a frame, 1 1 19.5
one behind the other. A sprocket or sprocket-wheel is a 8 1 156
profiled wheel with teeth, cogs, or even sprockets that mesh 8 8 1248
with a chain, track or other perforated or indented material.
Table 1. Power produced by the bicycle generator.
B. Generator and inverter board power power
Electrical Unit power
Quantity consumption consumption
The generator is used to convert the mechanical component rating (w-hr.) in 8 hrs
energy into electrical energy, which is shown in the fig. 2. Its Tube light 2 34 68 544
specifications are Voltage; 3-12 V, Type; D.C and variable Table fan 1 40 40 320
speed generator. The generator is connected with the battery
television 1 47 47 376
and the inverter board. The specifications of the battery used
for this work is; Nominal voltage; 12.0 V, Nominal capacity
20000 mA, 240 W/hr., Maximum discharging current; 300 A, Table 2. The power consumption rate of home appliances
and Weight ; 6350g. The inverter board has the following based on project design
specifications; Power; 120 W, Load capacity; 500 V A.
The appliances which are getting the power from the
bicycle generator are listed in the table 2. Three electrical
components are used that are tube light, table fan and
television. The quantity of tube light is two and the quantity of
table fan and television are one. The power rating of tube light
is 34 Watts and the power rating of table fan and television are
40 Watts and 47 Watts. The power consumption of 2 tube
lights in 1 hour is 68 Watts-hr and the table fan and television
power consumption in one hour is 40 Watts-hr and 47 Watts-
hr. Then the power for 8 hour is calculated by multiplying the
power consumption in 1 hour. With 8. The power
consumption rate for 8 hour each component respectively 544
Fig. 2. variable speed generator Watts-hr, 320 Watts-hr, 376 Watts-hr. respectively.

IV. WORKING
Power Power
Power
As per the design the bicycle generator is Compon
Quantity rating per
consumption consumpti
constructed. In this manual load is applied on the bicycle ent per hour on in
hour (W)
(W/hr.) 8hr(W/hr.)
pedal due to the manual force the largest sprocket starts
to rotated. The largest sprocket is connected with the Tube
3 34 272 816
small sprocket in the back end by simplex chain. There light
by the small sprocket also starts to rotate. The small table
5 40 320 1600
sprocket is placed in the center shaft of the back wheel. fan
So that the rotating motion of the center shaft transmitted Televis
1 47 47 376
to the back wheel there by the back wheel also rotate. ion
The back wheel is coupled with the D.C generator through Bulb 2 60 120 960
flat belt. Now the motion is transmitted to the generator. the Tread
generator convert this mechanical motion into electrical 1 1800 1800 14400
mill
energy . The current produced is in the form of D.C so
it can be directly stored in the battery. The inverter
board is used to convert the D.C current into A.C
current and then it sent to the supply port. Table 3. The power consumption rate of home appliances
based on original design

V. POWER PRODUCTON CALCULATION: Based on project design, the total electrical

appliances in the setup (gym), the appliances are 3 tube light,
5 table fan and 1 television, 2 bulb, 1 tread mill are listed in
The amount of power produced by the bicycle the table 3. The power rating of tube light, fan and television
generator measured with the help of Ammeter and voltmeter.
are given in the above calculation. The power rating of 1 bulb
From the current and voltage we can calculate the power. The is 60 Watts and the power rating of 1 tread mill is 1800 Watts.
amount of power by the bicycle generator in one hour is 19.5
The power consumption rate for 1 and 8 hour is given in the
Watts-hr. we are using 8 bicycle generator in our setup. So the table. The power consumption rate means the appliances
power for produced by 8 cycles in hour 156 Watts-hr. then the
consuming power to operate itself for 1 hour. Using that rate
power produced in 8 hour is 1.248 KW-hr as shown in the we can calculate the power consumption rate for 8 hour.
table 1.
A. Converting power consumption rate into unit The table 7. shows the amount spent for electricity
for each appliance in one day. As per the standard commercial
rate the amount is calculated. The first column shows the
Power rating Power rating
Electrical
Quantity for 8 hr. for 1 hr. electrical component followed by that their quantity, power
component consumption rate for one day (8hour) and the amount spent
(w/hr.) (W/hr.) (unit)
are given.
Tube light 2 544 0.544
Table fan 1 320 0.320
C. Expense calculation for one day
Television 1 376 0.376
Amount based on project design = 3.80 + 2.24 + 2.63 = Rs.
8.67. The amount spent to operate 2 tube lights for 8 hour is
Table 4.Power consumption rate into unit based on
Rs 3.80 and the amount spent to operate 1 table fan for 8 hour
project design
is Rs 2.24 and the amount spent to operate 1 television for 8
hour is Rs 2.63. the summation of all the amount gives the
The table 4. Shows the power consumption rate in
total amount spent to operate the appliance is Rs 8.67.
terms of Unit. Unit means the amount of power spend to
Amount based on original design=
operate the appliance in one hour measured interms of Kw. 1
5.71+11.2+2.24+6.72+100.8 = Rs. 126.67. The amount spent
unit is equal to 1000Watts or 1 Kw. The power rating of tube
to operate 3 tube light is Rs 5.71 and the amount spent to
light, table fan and television are 0.544 Unit, 0.320 Unit, 0.376
operate 5 table fan is Rs 11.2 and the amount to operate 1
Units respectively.
television for 8 hour is Rs 2.24. the amount spent to operate 2
Electrical Power rating for 8 Power rating for 1 hr.
bulbs for 8 hour is Rs 6.72. The amount spent to operate 1
Quantity tread mill is Rs 100.8. the summation of all the amount gives
component hr. (w/hr.) (W/hr.) (unit)
Tube the amount spent to operate the appliances for one day (8hour)
3 816 0.816 is Rs 126.67.
light
Table fan 5 1600 1.6
Televisio D. Expense calculation for one month
1 376 0.376
n
Amount based on project design = 8.67 X 30 =Rs.260.1.
Bulb 2 960 0.960
By multiplying the amount spent for one day with the total
Tread
1 14400 14.4 days of a month we get the amount spent for electricity for 1
mill month that is Rs 260.1.
Table 5.Power consumption rate into unit based on Amount based on original design = 126.67 X 30
original design = Rs. 3800.16. By multiplying the amount spent for one day
The table 5. shows the power rating interms of unit with the total days of a month we get the amount spent for
of original design (gym). The unit rating is calculated by electricity in 1 month that is Rs 3800.16.
converting the power consumption rating in Kw-hr. the
appliance and its unit power rating is given in the table. E. Analytical result

B. Power consumption calculation interms of rupees The total amount spent for electricity in the gym for
one month to operate all appliance is Rs. 3800.16. By
Electrical Power consumption Amount implementing the project we are producing electricity worth of
Quantity Rs 260.1 for each month. By subtracting the amount spent for
component (unit) (Rs.)
Tube light 2 0.544 3.80 electricity for each month from the amount that the worth of
Table fan 1 0.320 2.24 the current produced by implementing the project. Only Rs
Television 1 0.376 2.63 3540.06 only have to pay as bill. It is a profitable one.
Therefore the bicycle power generation method is feasible.
Table 6. power consumption calculation interms of rupees
based on project design VI. FEASIBILITY GRAPH

A. Graphical representation of analysis and results obtain

The table 6. shows the amount spent for the power
used to operate the appliance. This shows the amount spent for from project
one day for each appliance. The commercial rate is Rs 7 for
one unit of power consumption in India. According to that the
amount spent for each appliance for one day is, 2 Tube light.
Rs 3.80, 1 table fan 2.24 and one television Rs 2.63.

Electrical Quantit Power

Amount (Rs.)
component y consumption (unit)
Tube light 3 0.816 5.71
Table fan 5 1.6 11.2
Television 1 0.320 2.24
Bulb 2 0.96 6.72
Tread mill 1 14.4 100.8

Table 7. power consumption calculation interms of rupees

based on orginal design
Fig. 3. Power production vs cost of the power based on project
design
 The fig. 3. shows the relationship between power VIII. FUTURE SCOPE
production days and the worth of the power in Rupees. The
days taken in the X axis and the cost is taken the Y axis. As The analysis of bicycle power generation and its
the days increases power production level also increases there feasibility was done successfully. Even though there is
by the amount also increases. something need to improve in our project, so we
encourage and motivate the students and juniors of our
college to build up the bicycle generator with more
efficiency, like adding flywheel for increase the rate of
power production and provide some mechanism for
continuous pedaling. And further developments like
attaching generator core with the cycle wheel and make
the cycle wheel to act like a generator when it is rotate
and set the flywheel in various position in order to find
the most effective power production. Instead of belt the
wheel and the generator can be coupled with chain drive.
Otherwise the generator can be attach with the center
shaft of the back wheel.

IX. REFERENCES

1. Prabhu. T.J. “Design of transmission element”—Fifth

Edition
Fig. 4. Power production vs cost of the power based on
original design 2. Adithan „M Gupta, A.B (2002), “Manufacturing
technology”, New age International publishes.
The fig. 4. shows the relationship between power
production days and the worth of the power in Rupees. The 3. Panneerselvam and Jayakumar, “Engineering Economics
days taken in the X axis and the cost is taken the Y axis. The and cost analysis”, Lakshmi publications.
days increases power production level also increases there by
the amount also increases. 4. Bandaei B.N , “Design of machine elements”Ninth edition.

5. Robert L.Norton “Machine Design”, An integrated

Approach.

6. Rao.K, “Design of machine element “, Pearson internal

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8. PSG design data book.

Fig. 5. Power production based on project design and

based on original design
The fig. 5. shows the relationship between the Power
production based on project design and based on original
design. The days are taken in the X axis and the amount is
taken in the Y axis. The lower slanding line show the power-
cost relationship of project design and the upper slanding line
shows the power-cost relationship of original design. The
graph shows the feasibility level of this project.
VII. CONCLUSION
The bicycle generator and feasibility is successfully
analyzed. The working principle of the bicycle generator was
successfully studied. Various cost estimation about profit
and loss of the bicycle generator are studied and
calculated by manually. It is mainly used for home purpose.
It can be used at various prices where electrical power is
required. Due to the portability of the property it can be
easily taken to anywhere.

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