Designing of Alternator for Power Generation
Most people are spending most of their lifetime in walking. Walking is also known as ambulation, i.e., a fundamental and common locomotion for human in daily life. The contact between human feet and ground surface is created during the walking. The forces experienced by human feet upon landing on th
2025-06-28 16:26:37 - Adil Khan
Designing of Alternator for Power Generation
Project Area of Specialization Electrical/Electronic EngineeringProject SummaryMost people are spending most of their lifetime in walking. Walking is also known as ambulation, i.e., a fundamental and common locomotion for human in daily life. The contact between human feet and ground surface is created during the walking. The forces experienced by human feet upon landing on the ground can generate a renewable energy known as kinetic energy. This energy can be converted into electricity through a footstep power generator. The idea of the project revolves around the people that as long as they are walking on shopping mall’s entrance, hospital's entrance, Airport's entrance, jogging tracks etc., the electricity will be generating from the kinetic energy of the people. The person passes through the tiles that we place over alternator in such a manner that at every press of human feet, the tile pushed not more than an inch, this linear press will rotate the rotator of the axial flux alternator and helps as achieve our target to generate electricity. This power generation method using alternator doesn’t need any fuel to produce power. The idea of power generation using an alternator is a promising source to generate electricity by the raw power of the walking people.Most people are spending most of their lifetime in walking. Walking is also known as ambulation, i.e., a fundamental and common locomotion for human in daily life. The contact between human feet and ground surface is created during the walking. The forces experienced by human feet upon landing on the ground can generate a renewable energy known as kinetic energy. This energy can be converted into electricity through a footstep power generator. The idea of the project revolves around the people that as long as they are walking on shopping mall’s entrance, hospital's entrance, Airport's entrance, jogging tracks etc., the electricity will be generating from the kinetic energy of the people. The person passes through the tiles that we place over alternator in such a manner that at every press of human feet, the tile pushed not more than an inch, this linear press will rotate the rotator of the axial flux alternator and helps as achieve our target to generate electricity. This power generation method using alternator doesn’t need any fuel to produce power. The idea of power generation using an alternator is a promising source to generate electricity by the raw power of the walking people.
Reference:
Kemball-Cook, L. (n.d.). pavegen.com. Retrieved from pavegen: https://pavegen.com/
Project Objectives- To create a more sustainable world through the power of walking.
- To create awareness about renewable energy generation and environmental impact. We do this by making energy production visible, interactive, smart and fun.
- To achieve efficient utilization of energy resources by providing the desired control of workplace devices/appliances but also to a far greater extent it provides intelligent control of the devices/appliance as well which gives consumer benefit in terms of Cost saving and reliability
- To design an economic substitution for the consumer to help them save financial resources without compromising the individual living standards.
Goals: In this project, a simple and yet low cost mechanism has been proposed to enhance the performance and efficiency of energy conversion from kinetic energy to electrical energy by placing a alternator below floor tile, mechanical footstep power generator.
Research : Kinetic energy is considered as one of the renewable energies. Different types of footstep power generators are available in the market. Despite of their popularity, these power generators suffers with some drawbacks such as the infeasibility of this technology under static condition and the limitation of power capacity. One of the greatest challenges in this project is to design the footstep based axial alternator that is not in the market also it is a new product that we are wanted to introduce in the market that will later helps us to gain knowledge and experience in this field.
Basic implementation plan : In the proposed project mob will walk passed by the tiles beneath that we placed design alternator that produce electrical energy by getting desired rpm that will stored in DC battery and can utilize easily.
The following are the socio-economic benefits of the projects:
- It’s Saves natural resources as increasing demand for electricity and natural gas requires your utility to find new supplies of energy.
- It helps reduce our dependence on foreign sources of energy such as oil and petroleum products as Pakistan could now generate electricity through this resource.
- It is green sustainable energy that will not harm the environment as the rest of the generation is doing and destroying the ozone layer.
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Technical Details of Final DeliverableThe composed system consists of the following hardware.
- Newly design compact alternator for power generation of about 2watts at 180rpm.
- A 1-by-1 two tiles are placed on two axial flux alternators.
- The battery is being charged on 12volts by human footstep of about 60kg or less.
- Battery charge controller for protecting overloading.
- Screening of data that being produced.
| Item Name | Type | No. of Units | Per Unit Cost (in Rs) | Total (in Rs) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total in (Rs) | 79600 | |||
| MAGNETS | Equipment | 14 | 600 | 8400 |
| ROTAR PLATES | Equipment | 4 | 500 | 2000 |
| ROTAR SHAFTS | Equipment | 4 | 500 | 2000 |
| ENAMEL WIRE | Equipment | 4 | 2300 | 9200 |
| STEEL | Equipment | 1 | 8000 | 8000 |
| FIBER GLASS RESIN | Equipment | 1 | 8000 | 8000 |
| CASTING DIE | Equipment | 1 | 4000 | 4000 |
| MACHINING AND FABRICATION | Miscellaneous | 1 | 5000 | 5000 |
| COILS | Equipment | 7 | 2000 | 14000 |
| TILES | Equipment | 4 | 2500 | 10000 |
| LABOR COST | Miscellaneous | 1 | 5000 | 5000 |
| SPRINGS | Equipment | 5 | 400 | 2000 |
| GEARS | Equipment | 5 | 400 | 2000 |