NMAMIT students develop prototype to generate electricity from speed breakers

NMAMIT students develop prototype to generate electricity from speed breakers

Mangalore Today News Network

Mangalore, May 18, 2012: A group of students of the electrical and electronics engineering department of NMAMIT in Nitte have developed a prototype to generate electricity from speed breakers.

 

Ganesh Prasad, Sneharaj Kalmady, Jithesh Kumar A., and Sukesha Suvarna K. have developed a prototype that can convert kinetic energy generated by vehicles passing over speed breakers into mechanical energy, which is then used to rotate an electric dynamo to generate electricity. This electricity can be then stored in batteries and used to light traffic lights and street lights.

The students developed this prototype under the guidance of K. Vasudev Shettigar, the head of the department of electrical and electronics engineering.

Running vehicles generate several types of energies. When vehicles move over rough roads, they generate heat energy. When they move at top speed, they again generate energy when they face resistance from the wind. The students’ prototype can convert all these forms of energies into electricity.

When used on busy highways, the prototype can generate electricity to light five lamps of 40W.

According to Mr. Shettigar, this is a cheaper and more reliable way of producing electricity than methods that use solar and wind energies.