CUTTING VEHICLE EMISSIONS WITH REGENERATIVE BRAKING

A SEMINAR REPORT Submitted by

PAULSON PAUL
for the award of the degree of

BACHELOR OF TECHNOLOGY MAHATMA GANDHI UNIVERSITY

DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING MAR ATHANASIUS COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING KOTHAMANGALAM- 686 666, KERALA, INDIA JULY 2011

CERIFICATE CUTTING VEHICLE

being submitted by

This is to certify that the seminar report, entitled

EMISSIONS WITH REGENERATIVE BRAKING

PAULSON PAUL

to the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Mar Athanasius

College of Engineering, Mahatma Gandhi University, for the award of the degree of Bachelor of Technology, is a beneficial record of seminar report carried by him in my guidance

Dr. JOSEPHKUNJU PAUL C Head of the Department, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Mar Athanasius College of Engineering, Kothamangalam College P.O; Kerala- 686 666, India.

Dr. BINU C YELDOSE Senior Lecturer

The contents of this seminar report have been neither partially nor fully submitted and will not be submitted to any other college or University for the award of any degree or diploma.

PAULSON PAUL S7, Mechanical Engineering, Class No: 44 Kothamangalam September 2011

ABSTRACT

In a century that may see the end of the vast fossil fuel reserves that have provided us with energy for automotive and other technologies,and in which fears about carbon emissions are coming to a peak, efficiency of automobiles is becoming very important.This presentation provides an analysis of vehicle regenerative braking system as a quick and relatively easy methods of achieving higher overall fuel efficiency and lowering carbon emissions.The braking system involves the installation of an additional electric motor/generator in parallel to the vehicles internal combustion engine and is used in conjunction with a DCDC convertor and an ultracapacitor.The system is used to recapture the energy lost in vehicle braking, significantly reducing a vehicles overall energy consumption and lowering vehicle emissions.Experimentally based evidence is collected and compared for two vehicles to deduce the potential fuel and emission savings.