Sadia Tahsin Saad IX NEBULA SCIENCE FAIR 2014-Bangladesh Intl School & College

ENERGY HARVESTING SYSTEM:

Every time someone walks over one of the special kinetic tiles installed in the 1,200-pupil Simon Langton Boys
Grammer School in Caterbury, England, they generate electricity which is harvested by a passive energy
harvesting system. With a peak generation capacity of just 100W, over the course of a year the 12m
2
of tiles wont
harvest that much energy; enough to power a standard light bulb for a couple of months, or fully charge 850
mobile phones.
While its an idea that has been around for a while, with the increasing number of deployments of sensors to
measure the environment both inside and outside buildings, as well as larger-scale smart city programmes,
power is starting to be needed in the strangest of places. Places where wiring the sensors into the existing power
grid would be difficult or costly. Passive energy harvesting is an interesting idea that could be used to power
those sensors, and the smarter cities that are driving those deployments. So perhaps its an idea whose time has
me?
ENERGY HARVESTING TILES:
Power for the people takes on a whole new meaning, as the largest installation of Pavegen energy-harvesting tiles
to date produces 4.7 kilowatt-hours of energy during the Paris marathon, enough to power a laptop for more
than two days.
PARISOn April 7, 2013, Kenyas Peter Some won the 37th Paris Marathon with a time of 2:05:38. A surprise
winner, Some missed the event record by only 27 seconds, thus depriving him of a place in running history. He
need not have worried; unknown to him and thousands of fellow marathoners, they were all nonetheless part of a
historic event. As they ran across the Avenue des Champs lyses and thumped their feet on 176 special tiles laid
on a 25-meter stretch, the athletes generated electricity.
These special energy harvesting tiles were developed by London-based Pavegen Systems. The power thus
generated can be used to run low-voltage equipment such as streetlights and vending machines. The concept is
the brainchild of Laurence Kemball-Cook, who founded Pavegen in 2009 to commercialize it. The Paris Marathon
is the first of many such projects that will enable us to realize our goal of taking this technology to retail sites,
transport hubs, office blocks and infrastructure spaces, he says.




Pavegen uses what it calls a hybrid black box technology to convert the energy of a footstep into electricity, which
is either stored in a battery or fed directly to devices. A typical tile is made of recycled polymer, with the top
surface made from recycled truck tires. A foot stomp that depresses a single tile by five millimeters produces
between one and seven watts. These tiles generate electricity with a hybrid solution of mechanisms that include
the piezoelectric effect (an electric charge produced when pressure is exerted on crystals such as quartz) and
induction, which uses copper coils and magnets. The marathon runners generated 4.7 kilowatt-hours of energy,
enough to power a five-watt LED bulb for 940 hours, or 40 days. We came together for Paris Marathon to
highlight how technology is really going to change the way people think about energy, says Joe Hart, senior vice
president of Segment & Solution Marketing at Schneider Electric.
Easy power collection sounds promising, but implementation is challenging. As Kemball-Cook says, Installing the
tiles in the ground is one of the hardest things to do as they have to be very durable, weather resistant and
should have high fatigue resistance as well. Also, these tiles could get vandalized.
Hart says that in a couple of years, Pavegens technology could become visible and apparent in a number of areas,
not only as power units but also in security applications. Each of those tiles has wireless capabilityusing which,
we can analyze movement and optimize floor management.
Pavegen is not alone in harvesting human kinetic energy to generate electricity. Max Donelan, founder of Canada-
based Bionic Power, which has developed a wearable knee brace that harvests energy while walking, says the
braces can be useful when you need electricity without having to rely on the power grid. For example, our knee
braces are being developed for military use in places like Afghanistan where battery cells are exorbitantly
expensive.
Energy-harvesting tiles may be just one step for man, but taking many such steps may lead to a more powerful
and sustainable future.


Every time someone walks over a Pavegen tile, renewable energy is harvested from the footstep. The technology
converts the kinetic energy to electricity which can be stored and used for a variety of applications.




What it can do?
The energy harvested by the Pavegen tile can immediately power off-grid applications such as pedestrian lighting,
way-finding solutions and advertising signage or be stored in a battery.
Pavegen tiles have the ability to send wireless data using the energy from footsteps and can be integrated with
our API as a key technology for smart cities.
What it can be used for?

The technology is best suited to high-footfall urban environments. The Pavegen technology offers the first tangible
way for people to engage with renewable energy generation and to provide live data on footfall wherever the tiles
are.




Durability?
The Pavegen tiles are designed to
withstand harsh outdoor locations with
high footfall. The slabs are waterproof to
allow them to operate efficiently in both
internal and external environments.

Materials?

The top surface of the flooring unit is made from 100% recycled rubber and the base of the slab is constructed
from over 80% recycled materials. The system can be simply retrofitted in place of existing flooring systems as
well as specified for new developments.








What will we be demonstrating the whole project?
Well make a tile like material made out of polymer or elastic.
Add grassy base on the tile.
Cut it in the middle and place a glass cylinder in it, which contains a small bulb.
Well take a push button which, when pressed will turn the light on. (abrars job) Thus, the judge would
thinks that the light lit as he pressed the polymer but actually as were demonstrating an example we
dont need to MAKE THE TILE!! Were just showing how itll looks when attempted!!

How do we present in to the guests?
Well keep one tile common for everyone to test.
Two others are to be kept specially for the judges, principal & teachers.
Well have light of three colors to make it even attractive. (abrars job)
Charts, slides, speeches will be distributed amongst us.

CONDITION: The captain doesnt get any extra priority !!!!!