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International Journal of Advancements in Research & Technology, Volume 3, Issue 4, April-2014 ISSN 2278-7763

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Power Generation Footstep*

Shiraz Afzal, Farrukh hafeez 1Electronic Engineering Department, Sir Syed university of Engineering and technology, Karachi, Pakistan; 2Electrical and electronic engineering

Department, Jubail Industrial College, Jubail, Saudi Arabia.

Email: [email protected]

ABSTRACT

This paper is all about generating electricity when people walk on the Floor. Think about the forces you exert which is wasted

when a person walks. The idea is to convert the weight energy to electrical energy The Power Generating floor intends to trans-

late the kinetic energy to the electrical power. Energy Crisis is the main issue of world these days. The motto of this research

work is to face this crisis somehow. Though it won’t meet the requirement of electricity but as a matter of fact if we ar e able to

design a power generating floor that can produce 100W on just 12 steps, then for 120 steps we can produce 1000 Watt and if we

install such type of 100 floors with this system then it can produce 1MegaWatt. Which itself is an achievement to make it signifi-

cant.

Keywords : Electrical Energy, Energy Crisis, Kinetic Energy, Power Generating Floor, weight energy.

1 INTRODUCTION

HIS manuscript decribes about generating the electrical energy by using the weight energy, one can simply shocks by knowing how much energy a person can have by simp-

ly walking on the floor with a normal speed. as people’s steps (thousands upon thousands a day) utilize and channel kinetic energy too [1].

Whenever a person walks, manages to lose energy towards the floor by means of influence, vibration, and audio and so on, a result of the move of excess weight to the floor. That energy may be used and converted into electrical energy.The actual electro-kinetic floor is really an approach to making electrical energy by using the kinetic energy of the person who walks on the floor.

The power floor is not like traditional floor. The energy produced by this floor will be environment friendly without having smog. Producing this type of energy will be cost effec-tive also.The power floor does not need any fuel or perhaps any sort of energy resource, simply making use of kinetic energy. Based upon your excess weight from a person moving on the floor

2 BACKGROUND

Earlier various researchers had work on the conversion of dy-namic energy to electrical by human locomotion Jeff Krupen-kin and Ashley Taylor proposed a new technique called re-verse electro-wetting in which motion of conductive liquid on dielectric coated conductive substrate causes to create electric-al energy [2], so whenever there is any vibration on the upper plate due to human locomotion or by any mean could result in producing electrical energy as shown in following figure 1

Scientist of the hull university also worked on transforming man motion in to electrical energy and get positive results. Various experiments had made in japan also to harnesses energy from footsteps.

They installed the special flooring tiles on the Tokyo japan

busiest stations and observe that an average person weighting

60 kg can generate 0.1 watt in single second.A similar

approach with different mechanism for generation of

electricity from footstep is proposed by Tom jose V [3]. He

used rick and pinion gear system with dynamo fitting with its gear mechanism as shown in following figure 2.

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Fig. 1. Electro-wetting method

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Fig. 2. Dynamo, Rack and Pinion gear w orking mechanism

3 OPERATIONAL DESCRIPTION

Here a same approach as was anticipated by Tom jose V [3] but different mechanism is proposed as shown in following figure 3.

In this project a gear system is attached with flywheel which causes to rotate the dynamo as the tile on the deck is pressed The power that is created is saved in the batteries In addition we will be able to monitor and control the amount of electrici-ty generated as shown in the figure 2.

When an individual passes it push the tile on the ground surface which turn the shaft beneath the tile, turn is limited by clutch bearing which is underpinned by holders. Primary shaft is rotate approx. twice by a single tile push. The movement of the prevailing shaft turn the gearbox shaft which builds it 15 times (1:15) then its movement is smoothen by the help of fly wheel which temporary store the movement, which is convey to the DC generator ( it generates 12V 40 amp at 1000 rpm).

Energy generated is stored in the batteries , an inver-ter circuitry is implemented to convert the DC to AC ,so that we can sprint the home electrical load , Further a microcontrol-

ler based home mechanizat ion framework is implemented which

control rooms prudently.

Ent ire framework is put on the iron bars called chan-

nels. Our entire pro ject physical system diagram is shown in fol-

lowing figure 3

Fig. 3. Physical System

Fig. 2. Dynamo, Rack and Pinion gear w orking mechanism

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3 SYSTEM DESIGN FLOW

The following figure 4 describes the system design Flow while figure 5 describe the block diagram of our system.

4 APPLICATION

This can be implemented on railway station to generate elec-

tric power.

In bus station.

In car parking system.

In Airports.

In Lift system.

In car lifting system.

In street lights

Electric escalators

5 CONCLUSION

As a fact only 11% of renewable energy contributes to our pr i-mary energy. If this project is deployed then not only we can

overcome the energy crises problem but this also contributes to create a healthy global environmental change.

REFERENCES

[1] S. Whaley, D. English, E. Hu, P. Barbara, and A. Belcher, “Nature”,

pp 665, 2000.

[2] Tom krupenkin and J. Ashley Taylor ”Reverse electrowetting as a new

approach to high power energy harvesting” Nature Communication,

pp 1-7, August 2011.

[3] Tom Jose V, Binoy Boban, Sijo M T, “Electricity Generation from foot

steps; A generative Energy Resources” International Journal of Scien

tific and research publication, pp 1-3, March 2013

[4] Marc A. Rose, “Engineering Health and Safety Module and

Shiraz Afzal is a full time faculty member of

SSUET. He received his B.E. degree in Electro n-

ics from Sir Syed University of Engineering and

Technology Karachi, Pakistan and M.E degree in

Electronics, specialization in Micro-System de-

sign from NED University of Engineering &

Technology Karachi, Pakistan in 2006 and 2012

respectively. His research interest includes Mi-

croelectronic circuit design. He is a member of

PEC.

Farrukh Hafeez is a full time faculty member of

Jubail Industrial College. He received his B.E.

degree in Electronics from NED University of

Engineering and technology Karachi, Pakistan

and M.E degree in Electronics, specialization in

Industrial control system from NED University of

Engineering & Technology Karachi, Pakistan in

2005 and 2009 respectively. His research interest

control system design and applications.

Fig. 4. System Design Flow

Fig. 1. System Block Diagram

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