Electrical Power Generation by using Suspension System and Regenerative Braking System of Off-Road Vehicle

Abstract

Today’s generation depends on automobile various reasons like transportation, traveling and other purposes. There are many kinds of vehicles available in the market for different usages. Considering today's scenario fuel costs are increasing but no one is reducing the use of vehicles. We are going to consider the loss in dissipation of vibration energy which takes place in shock absorbers of vehicles. Our suspension system will work more effectively in off-road, irregular roads. In this system we used spring, rack and pinion arrangement. Our main objective was to capture the energy which is wasted during the both expansion and compression of the suspension spring in the form of heat & which can be further utilized in the form of electrical energy. The developed energy is then used to recharge vehicle battery for further use. Project also involves the one of the braking systems which is nothing but the regenerating system. in this Project contains the electric motor for converting the losses which will takes place on the suspension system during friction as well as in braking. Here motor acts as electric generator. The energy which lost during braking is given to the motor for further conversion. The losses which are fed to motor are shifted the rectifier circuit. Converted energy is stored in the battery. Energy stored in batteries during regenerative braking can be used for many applications.