Power Generation from Speed Breakers: Design and Mechanism Analysis

This report explores the design and mechanism of a system to generate electricity from speed breakers. It begins with an introduction highlighting the need for alternative energy sources and identifies the customer needs, such as a simple and efficient power production method and addresses the problem statement, which includes the limitations of existing power generation systems and the underutilization of speed breakers. The report details the design process, including a flow chart and a subset of functions. It describes the application of heavy loads from vehicles to operate paddle components and discusses the external and internal search for technology. The core of the report explains the principle of the speed-bump power generator, which converts kinetic and potential energy into electrical energy using mechanical components like rollers, crank-shafts, and magnetic systems. The report also includes proposed unit energy production capacity and provides references. In conclusion, the report emphasizes the system's ease of installation, economic viability, and pollution-free energy generation capabilities. It offers a sustainable solution for power generation from road traffic.

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“Power Generation from speed Breaker”
INTRODUCTION
Electricity has been identified as the backbone of the economic prosperity in nearly all parts of
the world. Electricity as a form of energy allow for conversion of raw materials into the finished
products. Apparently, it is obtained from other sources like wind, H.E.P, solar among others.
These sources however have never been enough to meet the demands which have been on the
rise. In order to meet this demand, several innovations have been brought forth by scholars. This
particular paper presents one of the innovative ways of generating electricity or power from the
speed breakers which are located at specific points on the roads (Singh et al.2013).
CUSTOMER NEEDS
 Simple and efficient means of power production.
 Tapping of energy from speed breakers
 Supplement of other sources of electricity production like H.E.P, wind power among
others
 Addressing the issues of frequent blackout through provision of relatively reliable power
production mechanisms
 Optimization of the use of speed breakers other than enhancing safety.
PROBLEM STATEMENT
 The other systems of power generation are affected by weather patterns (Das, Hossain &
Hossan 2013).
 The other systems of energy generation cannot be used for small scale production.

 Large amount of capital is required for the start of other systems of power generation.
 Speed breakers are underutilized in terms of economic production and rely idle other than
regulating the speed of the vehicles
One flow Chart
The function diagram is as shown below
SUBSET OF FUNCTION
 Application of heavy and vertically pressing load from the vehicles
 Operation of the paddle components.

EXTERNAL SEARCH
 The external lead users of this particular technology will include transport authority as
additional mechanism of controlling speed of vehicles and powering street lights as well.
 Country energy sector to supplement their grid supply
INTERNAL SEARCH
The concept Sketch is as shown below:
The principle of speed-bump power generator is primarily based on the conversion of potential
as well as kinetic energy to the electrical energy. The potential and the kinetic energies are
produced from the vertical displacement when the vehicle passes over the speed breakers
(Speed-bumps). The speed bumps are built from the electrical and mechanical components. The

mechanical parts of the speed breaker will include a roller whose center has been attached to the
shaft with the meshed gear. The gear which has been aforementioned is a meshed gear with the
fixed center to the shaft rotor. Besides, the rotor shaft has been linked to the dynamo which will
generate power during the rotation of the rotor shaft upon passing the vehicle over the roller.
The basis of the speed breaker system is a mechanical mechanism considering that it dictates
considerable amount of energy. The efficient and most reliable mechanisms which has used in
the proposed speed breaker mechanism are the crack-shaft, the roller, the rack and pinion and
finally the magnetic system. The produced power can be used for domestic purpose o for
commercial gains
Mechanism of the roller System
In the mechanism of the roller, a roller is made to rotate as the vehicle passes over it. This will
allow dynamo which has been connected to the shaft of the rotor to rotate thereby leading to the
generation of power.
Crank-shaft mechanism
This particular mechanism is responsible for changing the translational motion of the speed
breaker which is vertical to rotational motion through the connection of the crank-shaft and the
speed breaker. This makes the dynamo which is connected to the spur gear through the shaft to
receive rotation and consequently leading to the generation of power (Rao, Kumar & Suresh
2014).
Magnetic mechanism

It has been built mainly from stators and translators. As the vehicle passes over the bump, there
is downward movement of the translators leading to the generation of power.
The pinion rack connection is as shown in the diagram below
Proposed unit energy production capacity
It is estimated that the unit will produce 273.24W on a single push when subjected to a load of
400kg. Taking for example, 100 vehicles with the mass of 400kg can generate 54.59kWh.
Conclusion
The proposed unit of the speed breaker has been identifid as one which is easy to install as well
as being economical. The exploitation of this particular arranngement will allow for the
generation of high electric power from the the road traffic.
The design is very significant considering that it is providing a pollution free system of energy
generation. In fact it can be concluded that this is one of the most effective system which
generate energy with very little input.

References
Singh, A. K., Singh, D., Kumar, M., Pandit, V., & Agrawal, S. (2013). Generation of electricity
through speed breaker mechanism. International Journal of Innovations in Engineering
and Technology (IJIET, 2 (2), 2013, 20-24.
Mishra, A., Kale, P., & Kamble, A. (2013). Electricity generation from speed breakers. The
International Journal Of Engineering And Science (IJES), 2(11), 25-27.
Rao, A. P., Kumar, A. K., & Suresh, S. (2014). Power Generation from Speed Breaker by Rack
and Ratchet Mechanism. International Journal of Current Engineering and Technology,
(2).
Das, C. K., Hossain, S. M., & Hossan, M. S. (2013, May). Introducing speed breaker as a power
generation unit for minor needs. In 2013 International Conference on Informatics,
Electronics and Vision (ICIEV) (pp. 1-6). IEEE.