Final Year Dominic Maina Mechanical Engineering Student

Final Year Dominic Maina

Mechanical Engineering Student

Resulting on more vehicles on our infrastructures

As of 2012, the Australian motor vehicle fleet had 16.7 million registered vehicles compared to 14.8 million in 2007

- increase of 13.3%

- passenger vehicles 11,462 400 – 12,714 235increase of 10.9%

- Motor cycles 511,966 – 709 288increase of 38.5%

Vehicles are becoming more affordable and readily accessible compared to 10years ago.

According to the Bureau of Statistics website

Don’t you hate it, when you find this and the fuel light is showing ?

Traffic on the Southern Expressway. Picture: Simon Cross Source: The Advertiser

There is a new technology being implemented in hybrid cars to help you relax a bit, to get to the petrol station

“Development of a Fuel Saving Start and Stop System for two wheelers”

Project Title ;

Why for two wheelers, you may be asking?

Three main reasons

Don't always have room

They use Petrol

Produce CO2

How is it going to work

Switch

Speed sensor

ECU (microcontroller)

Throttle sensor

- Position sensor

- Gyroscope Sensors

Speed sensor

ECU

Mode Activation Switch

Throttle sensor

EngineStart

EngineStop

KeyPosition

Drawbacks

Budget of $200

Not having an electric start

Being manual

Not being roadworthy

What have I been doing so far

•Ownership

•Survey

•Solutions

What do I aim to achieve

•Develop the Start & Stop System

• Save fuel

How do I plan on doing this

Project Planning . Type of bike

Project Definition . Aims to achieve

Conceptual Design. To find what works best with what

Product Development

. Putting my designs into practice

Testing. Measuring fuel before and after

Durations

Task Start Duration(Days) End

Project Planning 25-Feb(S1 W1) 20 16-Mar

(S1 W2)

Project Definition 16-Mar(S1 W2) 48 3-May

(S1 W7)

Conceptual Design 22-Apr(Mid-Break)

88 19-Jul(S1 W14)

Product Development19-Jul

(S1 W14) 77 4-Oct(S2 W9)

Testing4-Oct(S2 W9) 35

8-Nov(S2 W13)

Any Questions?