Acoplamiento de un sistema neumático con regeneración a una bicicleta de ciudad

Abstract

The population growth of Quito city in the latest years carries to a mobility problem of the people who live in it at present. This job aims to the use of the bicycle as a mobility way and incorporate a pneumatic system that together with other subsystems regenerate the excessive energy involved in a descent and subsequently it makes the energy useful in an ascend, reducing the user effort. The pneumatic system has a control subsystem, which manages the available energy saved in the reservoir. Bicycle tests were evaluated according to the processes of regeneration and drive, being implicit the evaluation of the control system. The regeneration process is possible in agreement with the tests. Because of the fact that the pneumatic system has a reservoir, it was established that it can be charged by means of an external source (fuel station, vulcanizer, etc.). For this reason, the drive process was performed with the energy stored by regeneration and with the energy provided by means of external source. In conclusion, the pneumatic system can extend the bicycle use to users that, for any reason, shouldn’t do much effort.