International Research Journal of Engineering and Technology (IRJET)
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Volume: 09 Issue: 06 | Jun 2022
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ELECTRICITY GENERATION USING RAILWAY TRACK D P Anish1, Tarun D Shetty2, Chinthan Shetty3, Akash Shetty4, Mamatha K M5 1234,
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Mangalore Institute of Technology & Engineering, Karnataka, India. Assistant Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Mangalore Institute of Technology & Engineering, Moodbidri, Karnataka, India. ---------------------------------------------------------------------***--------------------------------------------------------------------5Senior
Abstract - Today's key worry is energy. Electric current production in large quantities is a requirement in today's environment.
There are a few a variety of methods for producing conventional and non-conventional energy methods. I'll show you how to make electric power in a nontraditional way in this article. We generated power in this study using an energy collecting setup that was simply operating on the train track for power uses. Our country now requires a nonconventional energy grid. The energy obtained from railway tracks is one source of non-conventional energy because no fuel is required as an input to generate an output in the form of electrical power, and this is accomplished through the use of a basic gear drive mechanism. The flap, rack and pinion, gears, DC generator, and battery are all carried by these mechanisms. The main goal of this setup is to harvest a huge quantity of energy from railway tracks, which may then be utilized to power trackside facilities with power ratings of 8 to 10 watts or higher. Key Words: Electricity Generation, Rack and Pinion gear, Dynamo, Battery, Inverter.
1. INTRODUCTION This project to show how energy can be tapped and used at a commonly used railway track. In railway track, large amount of energy wasted during train are passing through the track due to the dissipation of heat and friction when trains are moving through track. Here we can use railway track as a power generation unit. In the present situation power is main need of every human life. In this project when train moves on the track, due to load exerted by the train bogies the tracks are vertically deflected. The track displacement under the weight of moving train can be connected regenerative devices. And this project using simple drive mechanism such as rack and pinion assembly and chain drive mechanism. Here battery can be used as storage equipment and power track side equipment Availability of regular conventional fossil fuels are main source of power generation, but there is a fear that they get exhausted by next few decades. Due to this lots of research using renewable resources to generate power. In our project generated power can be used for street lamp, lamp lights near the track, and irrigation system to near the lands and fields. It does not requires any fuel input to generate power as output. This can be implemented to anywhere in the railway track. Increasing the amount of power we can extract from the rail is the major goal of our strategy. We are using the power track side to capture a lot of energy equipment which has power rating up 8 to 10 watts or more. An electromagnetic-based harvester will be used to achieve this could be suitable.
2. Block diagram
2.1 Hardware description
Fig -1- Block diagram
1. Railway Track Arrangement An automobile runs over two parallel steel bars, referred to as rails, on a railroad or railway. The wheels of the machines, which are typically either trains or trams, are supported and guided by the rails.
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