Solar Based Air Compressor For Car/Bike

Abstract

With the increased urge for the vehicles in the day to day life for today’s generation has led to have a continuous review over the status and working condition of the vehicles. Basically the inflation of the tire and its wear condition. One of the presently used methods is, using the compressors running on the electricity. This manual or electric inflation causes following difficulties.

Heavy force is required manually to push the piston along with the bearing in the head stock bore. Regular increase in the electric fares.

Unreachable to the remote areas, where electricity is still a dream. Not safe for the user on a monetary basis.

This project is to design and fabricate to minimize manual work as well as to use renewable source of energy by using a solar panel and to overcome the above difficulties. Designing and Fabrication of solar based air compressor has the following merits,

Environmental friendly.

More economical, as solar energy is abundantly available. Continuous monitoring of air pressure on LCD.

Easy to maintain.

This process started from the literature survey. Some of the papers reviewed were “Dynamically self inflating tire system”. Accordingly a PIC microcontroller is used in this project. Micro controller has the input modules like pressure sensor, control buttons and output modules are LCD display, compressor switching driver and buzzer to give alarm in case of high pressure