FABRICATION OF DUAL POWER BIKE
INTRODUCTION
Since the last two decades the judiciary and policy makers all over the world are deeply concerned about the urgent need for protection of the environment, ecology and humanity at large, there has been a steep rise in the accumulation of green house gases particularly CO₂, which effect global changes in weather.
Motor vehicle contribute about 14% of CO₂ from all sources besides, pollution due to both petrol and diesel engine driven vehicles caused by the emission of CO, no un burnt hydrocarbons, particulate and oxides of tetra ethyl, Lead are injury to health and environment.
Regulations on exhaust emission from vehicle engines have been made progressively more and more stipend towards the year 2000 and beyond, Vehicle manufactures have been hence obliged to meet these standards by designing cleaner and fuel efficiently engines and through provision for treatment of exhaust gases to satisfy the specified limits.
So to satisfy and overcome these two problems namely
ü Pollution and
ü Efficiency

Then we go for a hybrid vehicle in the name of DUAL POWER BIKE.


COMPONENTS USED

ü Power supply (12 V Lead Acid Battery)
ü Relay Circuits
ü DC Gear Coupled Motor – Starting motor
ü Switches to change power
ü Bike with petrol Engine
ü Chain drive
ü Gear drive


WORKING PRINCIPLE
The working principle of DUAL POWER BIKE basically involves two processes, the first process involves when the vehicle is running by means of internal combustion engine and the second process involves when the vehicle is running by means of an electric motor. When the vehicle is driven at the outside of city and need more torque to drive the vehicle is powered by means of internal combustion engines. The power from the engine is taken from the pulley and then it rotates the wheel. During this process the vehicle is charged by means of a generator used. The power is generated through generator is by connecting the generator shaft with the shaft of the wheel by means of V-Belt.
When the vehicle is driven inside the city, running in the plain and need of low torque the vehicle is powered by means of a motor. The power to run the motor is supplied from the battery, as the battery is already charged when the vehicle running on the internal combustion engine.
During this process the speed of the vehicle will be minimum and there is no smog forming pollutants produced during the vehicle runs. When the vehicle is powered by means of electric motor the power from the internal combustion engine will be disconnected from the shaft by loosening the belt. The mileage of the vehicle while running on the electric motor is mainly depends upon the time of charging and also depends upon the capacity of the battery.
In this process the motor cum generator serves as motor as well as generator. It serves as a motor when the vehicle is running by means of battery and it serves as a generator when the vehicle is running by means of internal combustion engine.
The following diagram shows the motor speed control circuit,




SPECIFICATION

DC GEAR COUPLED MOTOR

ü Voltage : 12V

ü Current : 500mA

ü Torque : 0.5Kg Cm

ü Speed : 8000rpm in unloading

ü Speed : Above 3000rpm in loading

PERFORMACNE DATA

ü Range per charge 70 Km
ü Gross Vehicle Weight 80Kg
ü Battery Weight 5.3 Kg
ü Pay Load Capacity 100 Kg
ü Seating Capacity 2
ü Max. Speed 40 Kmph
ü Energy Consumption 0.5 KWH / Km
ü Voltage 12V, 17Ah

ü Current 3.4 amps

ü Cycle use 14.1-14.4V

ü Standby use 13.6-13.7V

ü Constant voltage charge with voltage regulation


FEATURES OF DUAL POWER BIKE


ü In heavy traffic and inside the city there is no chance for moving fast. At that time, if vehicle is run by engine, more fuel is wasted due to variation of acceleration. If it is run by battery, the consumption of power is reduced.
ü During less load working condition, vehicle can be easily run by mean of battery instead of by engine, when high torque is required it can changed to engine operated.
ü Variation of speed from 10-5000 rpm can be obtained by using battery operated motor.
ü When vehicle is heavy loaded, need of high torque (hills, slopes) and need of high speed, it can be obtained by internal combustion engine.
ü Comparing with normal commercial and hybrid bikes, it is better and having more advantages.
ü Regarding manufacturing cost and selling price is less than other bikes by means of additional feature. For example Honda Civic car having these types of features but its cost is around 25 lakhs. So it is suitable for middle class people.
ü More features for low cost
ü The bike is available for price of less than 35 thousand.
ü Pollution will be reduced and no noise can be produced around hospitals school and other places.
ADVANTAGES
Dual Power Bike has several advantages over conventional vehicle:
ü Regenerative breaking capability helps minimize energy loss and recover the energy used to slow down or step a vehicle.
ü Engines can be sized to accommodate average load, not peak load, which reduces the engine’s weight.
ü Fuel efficiency is greatly increased (Hybrids consume significantly less fuel than vehicles powered by gasoline alone)
ü Emissions are greatly decreased.
ü It can reduce dependency on fossil fuels because they can run on alternative fuels.
ü Special lightweight materials are used to reduce the overall vehicle weight of HEVs. The HEVs available for sale are very cost competitive with similar conventional vehicles. Any cost premium that may be associated with HEVs of the future can be off-set by overall fuel savings and possible incentives.

Auto manufacturers are making these HEVs with comparable performance, safety, and cost because they know that these three elements are most important to consumers. Any by combining gasoline with electric power, hybrids will have the same or greater range than traditional combustion engines. The HEVs is able to operate approximately two times more efficiently than conventional vehicle. Honda’s Insight can go 700 miles on a single tank of gas. The Toyota Prius can go about 500 miles. For the driver, hybrids offer similar or better performance than conventional vehicles
ADVANTAGES OVER OTHER VEHICLES
There are a number of high performance and even higher mileage electric vehicles that are set to new released in a few short years (none of them coming from major auto-companies so the prices may be high for the average working class American) with reduce charge times (as little as an hour which means you could recharge while you are shopping, or eating at a restaurant, watching a movie, visiting friends and family, at the park, sport games, etc.) also the with the implication or solar panels an lighter bodies the electric vehicles range will surpass some of the most fuel efficient automobiles on the road today.

As for the whole longer tailpipe thing (i.e. the vast majority of electricity is produced from polluting non renewable resources) we are currently making great strides to switch to clean renewable resources for all of or power needs, also it has been proven that electric vehicles their electric power from our polluting power-grid are still better for the environment due to their sheer efficiency.

The looks of the electric vehicles are finally starting to look like normal vehicles and they perform with some of the best supercars in the world. Oh, and considering that the average American only drives between 25 and 50 miles per day the range of 250 miles per charge is more than enough (especially considering that you can recharge almost anywhere). Therefore electric vehicles are some of the best performance and most efficient vehicles that should be on the road and will be on the road for many decades to come.





APPLICATION AREAS

ü Intra – City commuter service
ü Bird sanctuaries, zoological parks.
ü Airport shuttle service
ü Government departments.
ü Industrial establishments, townships / satellite colonies.
ü Postal service
ü Golf clubs, schools, colleges / institutes welfare centers.
ü Courier service and mobile kitchen services.