SOLAR POWERED INTELLIGENT CAR

CABIN VENTILATION SYSTEM

Project Guide: DR.S.P.AWATE

Group members :-
1) AJINKYA S. INGLE ROOL NO.40
2) RITESH P. JADHAV ROOL NO.42
3) SAGAR B. PATIL ROOL NO.152
 INTRODUCTION

Park a car under the sun for a couple of hours and it gets very hot. It would be too hot to get
into. This is due to the design and the material of the car which is closed thus trapping hot air.
Due to the hot air in car it is not comfortable to sit in the car. On top of that, many other
problems also occur such as decreasing the lifespan of the car interior, dangerous to pets or
human in car and wastage of air condition as the user would switch it to maximum level to
get rid of the hot air. This project is done to find solution to overcome these problems for car
cabin ventilation system using solar energy.
 PROBLEM STATEMENT

The temperature inside a car in summer season in India can rise up to 40 oC more than the outside
temperature and pose a serious threat for passengers in the car, when it is parked outside during
summer. The increase in temperature of the car cabin is due to various modes of heat transfer such
as conduction, convection and radiation. However, to reduce the temperature inside car cabin
conventionally use AC which consume engine power & it is more economical. Use of fossil fuel
sources had over the years been the result of an increased damage to the environment over the
years. Excessive heat. The main objective to reduce car cabin temperature using non-conventional
energy.
 OBJECTIVE

1. Design an effective and inexpensive system to reduce the temperature inside the vehicle
cabin.

2. Increase the air flow rate and decrease the steady state temperature inside the car cabin.

3. Minimum or zero fuel consumption for cabin cooling during the vehicle is on idle
condition.

4.Increase efficiency of car cabin ventilation system.

Sr.No. Author Name Title Work carried out

Heat Reduction in Car Cabin In this project aim of the project is to calculate
Baltha Manoj Kumar & by Using Nonconventional the cooling load required for the 5 member
1 Baltha Sravanthi,
Source of Energy passenger car. By considering all load factors
like heat gain by window glass, roof, engine,
persons, audio system.

This paper mainly focuses on regulating the

Gaurav Kumar Jaiswal, Design of A Smart internal temperature of the car. A new ventilation
Mohit Gandhi, Sanket Automotive Ventilation system has been designed that employs exhaust
2 Phalgaonkar, Harshal fan and blower, temperature sensors and
Upadhyay, Ankit System For A Parked Car electronic control circuitry to automatically
Agrawal , Vasudevan control the temperature inside the car cabin
Rajamohan, K.Ganesan under the constraint that ignition system is off.
Sr.No. Author Name Title Work carried out

In this paper, heat transfer and energy balance

inside the car were investigated. Moreover
R. Saidur, H. H. Perfromance Of an Improved power consumption of the motor, power
3 Masjuki and M.
Hasanuzzaman Solar Car Ventilator, produced from the solar panel, radiation effect
and battery charging time were investigated.

Hairol Nizam Mohd

Shah, Zalina Kamis, This invention system is using solar power
Mohd Fairus Abdollah, Develop and Implementation integrate with the ventilation system in order to
4 Mohd Khairi Mohd stabilize the thermal condition inside the car
Zambri, Faizil Wasbari, of Solar Powered Ventilation during sunny day.
Nursabillilah Mohd Ali , System
Amirul Anwar Mat
Shah,
Sr.No. Author Name Title Work carried out

This paper shows how can make use of solar

energy for cooling purpose in cars. As know that
S.Ahtesham Husain, Review On Car Cooling number of cars are increasing day by day, and
5 Manoj Dhawade &
Suprabhat A.Mohod Using Solar Energy cannot totally depend on fossil fuels, so to make
use of alternative energy source such as solar
energy, which is freely available.

A study has been conducted to investigate the

Design Of A Fully heat trap phenomenon inside a vehicle’s
Ahmed M. Abdelwahab, Automated Ventilation compartment produced by the temperature rise
6 Ahmed A. Omer, Obai due to sun radiation, the inside of the cabin will
Younis, Dania Ahmed System For Vehicles exhibit higher temperature compared to the
Subjected To Direct Sunlight, outside surroundings.
 CONSTRUCTION
Sr. Components Quantity
No
1 10 watt, 12 volt Solar panel 1
2 Solar charger unit 1
3 12 volt 5 Amp Storage Battery 1
4 12 volt DC Fan 1
5 Fasteners 4
6 Supporting frame 1
7 Electronic Temperature controller 1
 Solar panel Solar charger circuit
12 V Battery.

DC Exhaust Fan Temperature controller Fasteners

 WORKING

A new ventilation system aimed at regulating temperature inside a parked car was designed that employs
exhaust fan, temperature sensors and electronic control circuitry, under the constraint that ignition system is
off. Experimental investigations were done on a prototype of a car-cabin, which was designed and fabricated.
The experimental investigation is performed on a prototype model of car with given dimensions and material
properties as mentioned in design. The exhaust fan is fitted at the required locations. The temperature sensor
is fixed as identified inside temperature of the car & (outside) to measure the ambient temperature. A
microcontroller-based program is developed in such a way that, when the difference between the set
temperatures of the sensor located inside the car and the ambient temperature of the car exceeds a specified
value; the exhaust fan would be powered on using the batteries. Then the fan would run for a given time
(based on the ambient temperature), and then again, the temperature difference, would be checked and if it
falls below the desired value then the fans would be switched off and the cycle would continue.
 BLOCK DIAGRAM
3 D PROTOTYPE
 DESIGN

Heat transfer through car body by considering 1-D heat flow,

Area under thermal heat transfer study A= 1.62 m2
T0 = Outside the car air temp. = 300 C. = 313ok
Ti= Inside the car air temp. = 400 C. = 303ok
L = Thickness of wall = 1mm = 1 x 10-3mm
According to Fourier law of heat conduction,
Q’ = 388.8 Watt.
h0 = Outside air convective heat transfer coeff. (w/m 2k).
hi= Inside air convective heat transfer coeff. (w/m 2k).
L = wall thickness (m).
k steel = thermal conductivity (w/mk)
Q total = Q convection + Q conduction + Q convection
= 197.39 watt. (Through side wall.)

Heat transfer Qc = mCpΔΤ

m - mass flow rate of air

Cp - specific heat of air

ΔΤ – temperature difference

Mass flow rate (m) of air and is the product of density of air (ρ ) and volume flow rate (Q ).
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