REGENERATIVE BRAKING SYSTEM: ELECTRICITY GENERATION

THROUGH WHEEL AND BRAKES

FINAL YEAR PROJECT REPORT

Submitted by

XXXX

REGISTER NO: xxxxx

Under the Guidance of

Mr. XXXXXXXX, MBA, M.Phil, M.F.C, MHRM, (Ph.D),

Faculty, Department of Mechanical Engineering

in partial fulfillment for the award of the degree

Of

DIPLOMA IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

TJS POLYTECHNIC COLLEGE

GUMMIDIPUNDI, TAMIL NADU, INDIA

DECEMBER- 2017
Abstract:

Slowing down the increase of the energy consumption's is one of the main challenge of this decade.
Transporting is one of the biggest energy consuming sector. So, to increase the efficiency of our vehicles,
energy harvesting has become more and more widespread in the transports' study field. According to
literature, during breaking, an heavy vehicle can waste from 400 to 3000 [kW] mostly converted into
heat. That suggest that a large energy recuperation might be possible in this area. However, finding an
energy harvesting technology at a scale of our braking system may seem problematic, since most of
them as scalability problems. Thermoelectric generator (TEG), might match this problematic. After
carring out several experiments to understand and analyse the heat behavior and the energy recovery in
different brake pads, we finally find out that our concept of using a TEG to to recover waste energy is
not adaptable to a medium range car. But making some improvements and using it in bigger vehicles
could still be an interesting field of investigation.

WORKING PRINCIPLE:

Regenerative Braking System (RBS) is an efficient system to increase the electric vehicle
efficiency. RBS is a system which converts Heat energy to electrical energy during braking
action. It will become an important system for future vehicle such as hybrid and electric car.
Generally in automobiles whenever the brakes are applied the vehicle comes to a halt and the
kinetic energy gets wasted due to friction in the form of heat energy. Using regenerative
braking system in automobiles enables us to recover the heat energy of the vehicle to some
electrical energy using peltier that is lost during the braking process. In this project we discusses
two methods of utilizing the kinetic energy that is usually wasted by converting it into either
electrical energy or into mechanical energy. Regenerative braking system can convert the heat
energy into electrical energy with help of Peltier. And it can also convert the kinetic energy into
mechanical energy, which is supplied to the vehicle whenever it is needed, with the help of a
flywheel.

In the figure the numbers corresponds to:

1: The heat source leading the heat from the braking interface to the TEG.

2: The TEG.

3: The heat sink leading the heat from the cold side of the TEG to the metal base of the pad.

4: The brake pad

All the characteristics of the heat source and sink will be developed in the section dedicated the
relevant experiments.
MATERIALS REQUIRED:

1. Two Wheeler Wheel with Complete Brake setup

2. Thermo Electric Generator
3. Brake Shoes
4. Charging Circuit
5. Battery
6. Steel Square Tube 15 Meters