Abstract:This paper aims at production of electricity by using the concept of the rotation of wind turbine due to the wind caused by the moving train and also by using an electrical power generation system. As anyone living near railway tracks will tell you, speeding trains generate quite a bit of wind as they whoosh past. The idea is to design a wind turbine that can be installed between the sleepers on a track, and as the train passes overhead, the wind drives a turbine to generate electricity. This device could be placed along railway or subway lines, and make good use of an otherwise wasted resource. An electrical power generation system comprises a variable capacitor and a power source. The power source is used in the form of a generator to prime the variable capacitor that effectively multiplies the priming energy of the power source by extracting energy from the passing vehicle. By alternately priming the variable capacitor using charge from the power source and discharging it at a later time in a cyclic manner to change the capacitance, a significantly large amount of electrical energy is produced due to change in capacitance.
Keywords: variable capacitor, turbine, railways, generation, wind.
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