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Figure 6. Relation variation of voltage with speed of genera-
tor.
vehicle’s weight, when the weight increase the rpm of
the drum will increase. As the horizontal vehicle speed is
increased the rotational speed of the drum will be in-
creased. The effective rotational drum speed is (n = 35
rpm) at which the system starts to charging. The friction
between the tire and the drum increases when the vehicle
weight increases.
By the calculations it was shown that we need only
about 10% of vehicle attractive effort to generating a siz-
able amount of electrical energy. Also, the testing results
proven that the minimum effective vehicle’s speed is 20
Km/hr, this means that all of the vehicle going over the
system can be harnesses to produce the energy.
In the future there will be a large number of small gen-
erators connected to the distribution networks, small sys-
tems that can be combined with management and storage
energy systems in order to improve the operation of dis-
tribution systems. From an environmental point of view
the system is considered clean, reliable, and secure. If ef-
ficient planning and an optimum operation of the grids to
which the generation plants are connected are achieved, it
will be possible for this model to play a greater role in the
future, contributing to energy efficiency improvement, re-
duction in distribution cost, and power quality improve-
ment. The cost of the total system design, testing and in-
stallation reached about 640 JD (US $900) which is not
expensive when it used for a long term.
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