Knocking For Power

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Generate Electricity from opening and closing the door
Abstract
Egypt is facing big challenges, like not having enough electricity, making life harder. A new invention, the door movement generator, is being built to make electricity from door movements, without needing major changes. This project is crucial for Egypt because it could help solve urgent problems. These generators can be expanded to add new technology or power lines, making them more efficient and reaching more people. It's a small but important step in fixing Egypt's electricity issues and improving life for everyone.

Introduction
Egypt faces many challenges called Egypt's grand challenge including improving of alternative energy, dealing with the population growth and its consequences which causes the lack of sources of energy, and reducing and adapting to the effects of climatic change which is the riskiest problem in Egypt. Our project “knocking for power “aims to solve these problems. Our project is to generate electricity by opening and closing the door. We chose this idea because it is easy to implement and its results are high. Our project shows high results and achieves all design requirements. This website shows how we build our prototype and shows the results scientifically and professionally.

Egypt Energy Source 2022

The chart visually represents the proportion of various energy sources used in Egypt.

Egypt Aims By 2040

by 2040 clean electricity 100% No coal by 2040​ No fossil fuels by 2040 Zero carbon intensity by 2040

Batteries | From laptop battery |

  •  18/08/2020 12:00 AM

The batteries are used the store the amount of electricity produced from the Motor that will produce the required electricity.

Diode |From our Schoolmates|

  •  15/07/2020 12:00 AM

The diode will unite the direction of the power when we open and close the door in any direction

Bridge rectifier

  •  01/05/2020 12:00 AM

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Generator Motor

  •  08/04/2020 12:00 AM

This is the generator that is used to generate energy in our project

Gears

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The gears help in rotating the generator. The teeth of the two gears are 70,45 The gear to gear ratio is 1.6

Capacitor

  •  08/04/2020 12:00 AM

In our project, we use a capacitor in the output circuit of the bridge rectifier to improve the quality and reliability of the electricity it produces.

Voltage regulator

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n our project, we employ a voltage regulator to step down the output voltage of the motor generator from 45 volts to 9 volts.

   There are many scientific bases that we relied on and they were the director for us in our journey of constructing and testing the prototype. To ensure that the prototype is successful and achieves the requirements of the challenge given, there are some relations and calculations that we will need to use. Firstly, The energy calculation: The prototype must be fast in producing energy at least producing 150 Joule in 5 minutes at least. So, To measure the produced energy of the prototype we Followed these calculations. First, we had to measure the power of the prototype by the law = :                                        

 Watt = Volts × Ampere


The Voltage of the Generator was about 7.5 Volt, and The Current intensity was about 0.125 Amp, so the power = 7.5×  0.125 = 0.9375 Watts, the second calculation is to measure the energy, energy is the rate of power and its rule is as in Fig 6: Energy =  power× Time. The power of the generator is equal to 0.9375 watts as we calculated before, and the time that was specified in the design requirements is 5 minutes, so after converting the unit of the time from minutes to seconds by the following calculation: t(in sec) = t(in min)  × 60, so the time will be equal to 300 seconds. After applying the previous magnitudes in the law of energy, the amount of the energy produced equals=0.9375 × 300 = 281.25 Joule, so as shown the energy produced from the prototype in 5 minutes is approximately double the joules mentioned in the design requirements. 

          Secondly, Gear to gear ratio, Imagine that gear is attached to another gear, and the number of teeth of that first gear is double that of the second gear, this difference leads to when the first gear rotates one rotation, the second gear rotates two rotations The first gear in the gearbox was about 70 teeth and the second gear is about 45 gear so the gear ratio is approximately 1.6  this means that for each on rotation in the big gear, The small gear will rotate about 1.6 rotation. This means when the big gear rotates 9 rotations, the small gear will rotate about 14 rotations.

Thirdly, calculating the efficiency: We calculated the efficiency of the prototype by calculating the input by the formula of work, Work= Force × Displacement, we measured the force needed to rotate the door by the spring scale, and the displacement of the opening by the ruler, so work = 2 × 0.72 = 1.44J in one opening, so we divided the total time by the time of the opening to calculate the number of openings, so num. = total time/time of opening=300/1=300 openings, so  total input in the 5 minutes  will be, 1.44× 300 =432 J, and we measured the output by measuring the volt by the avometer and calculated the energy as we said before, so the efficiency = (output/input)×100 =  (281.15/432)×100 = 65.1%


Fourthly, the angular velocity: as expected, there is a relation between the angular velocity and the energy produced, the relation is directly proportional, the angular velocity = Linear velocity / Radius, we calculated the radius with a ruler and it was 0.47m, and the velocity = distance / Time  We opened it in three different angles(45°, 67.5°, 90°) and the distance was (0.4,0.6,0.7)m, the time was (0.5, 0.6, 65) sec. So, the velocities are (0.8, 1, 1.07) m/s, so the angular velocities are (1.7,2.1,2.3)  the volt outputs in 3 are (1.67, 1.73, 1.75)Volt. So, as in Graph 2, there is a direct relation between angular velocity and voltage until the voltage reaches its maximum limit.


The moment of truth.

Ali Kotb

Technical Manager and graphics designer

Cybersecurity Engineer |DECI 2nd Place all over the government| 2nd Place in TOFAS Egypt (level 6)

Mechanical Manager of the team First Place in RC Egypt 2021, Second Place in WRO 2023 in the category of Self-driving cars Expertise in Robotics and Mechanical Engineering Drives Team to Victory

STEM El-Sadat Senior S'26 and the Writing manager in the Team

| STEM El-Sadat S'26 | Research manager of the team

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Scientific Poster

The Scientific Poster for our project

Portfolio

The Portfolio of our project


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