Monday, March 19, 2007

VACUUM AIR GENERATOR FOR EXPRESSWAY ELECTRIC LIGHTING IN TRANSPORTATION ENGINEERING by Roseller Rubio, Moniel Santos, Engr Richard Uaje

ABSTRACT
Engineer’s are always upon the innovation of the advance science and unique technology, making them the infinite designer of the modern world. Considering the Philippines economic crisis calls the need of power scarcity. Furthermore, with the uncontrolled increase of oil prices that our country experienced, we have come up to formulate a new innovation of generating electricity through vacuum air. This innovation involves the principle of highway and transportation engineering, thermodynamics(converting potential energy to kinetic energy by turning the turbine, then the mechanical energy which will the produce heat and then to electrical to electricity). The Philippines and other countries are suffering from economic crisis that results to the depreciation of oil price and primary family needs, in this case, it is necessary to look for an alternative that will help to reduce family expenses particularly electric consumption. Everyday, trucks, buses and cars run a minimum speed of 100km/hr in our expressway which results air vacuum as they pass by. With this, through the principle of windmill generator, which generates electricity, we have come to think of conversion of air vacuum to electricity. With the fast turning of windmill directed into the blades of the impulse turbines, which makes the motor, spin to generate electricity. In the simplest form of windmill generator, the air turns the turbine then turns the generator to produce electricity. The available vacuum air depends on the speed of vehicles passes by, and also the pressure of the air, which will strike the blades to rotate. As in model expressway prepared, install the vehicle into the road pavements. Start the vehicle as it to passes to the windmill at the shoulder of the road located at the side of the model expressway. The vehicle will then produces vacuum air that will give enough pressure in able to rotate the dynamo or blades of the turbine. As blade rotates, this will now run the generator that will then produce electricity through heat