Abstract

The main aim of our project is to design and fabricate an ethanol powered four stroke two
wheeler vehicle with front wheel electrically driven. An Ethanol fuel engine is an alternative fuel
vehicle that uses ethanol as its onboard fuel for motive power. The term may refer to a personal
transportation vehicle, such as an automobile, or any other vehicle that uses petrol in a similar
fashion, such as an aircraft. The power plants of such vehicles convert the chemical energy of
petrol to mechanical energy either by burning petrol in an internal combustion engine, or by
reacting petrol in a fuel cell to run electric motors. Widespread use of petrol for fueling
transportation is a key element of a proposed petrol economy.

Another added advantage of our project is that the vehicle acts as an electrically driven
vehicle with a hub motor and a battery. The ethanol powered engine delivers power to the rear
wheels and the front wheels are pushed by the rear wheels, whereas in electrical driving the hub
motor delivers power to the front wheels and the front wheels in turn pushes the rear wheels.

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 INTRODUCTION

Ethanol fuel is ethanol (ethyl alcohol), the same type of alcohol found in alcoholic
beverages. It is most often used as a motor fuel, mainly as a bio fuel additive for gasoline. World
ethanol production for transport fuel tripled between 2000 and 2007 from 17 billion to more than
52 billion liters. From 2007 to 2008, the share of ethanol in global gasoline type fuel use
increased from 3.7% to 5.4%. In 2011 worldwide ethanol fuel production reached 22.36 billion
U.S. liquid gallons (bg) (84.6 billion liters), with the United States as the top producer with 13.9
bg (52.6 billion liters), accounting for 62.2% of global production, followed by Brazil with 5.6
bg (21.1 billion liters). Ethanol fuel has a "gasoline gallon equivalency" (GGE) value of 1.5 US
gallons (5.7 L), which means 1.5 gallons of ethanol produces the energy of one gallon of
gasoline.

Ethanol fuel is widely used in Brazil and in the United States, and together both countries
were responsible for 87.1% of the world's ethanol fuel production in 2011. Most cars on the road
today in the U.S. can run on blends of up to 10% ethanol, and ethanol represented 10% of the
U.S. gasoline fuel supply derived from domestic sources in 2011. Since 1976 the Brazilian
government has made it mandatory to blend ethanol with gasoline, and since 2007 the legal
blend is around 25% ethanol and 75% gasoline (E25). By December 2011 Brazil had a fleet of
14.8 million flex-fuel automobiles and light trucks and 1.5 million flex-fuel motorcycles that
regularly use neat ethanol fuel (known as E100).

Bioethanol is a form of quasi-renewable energy that can be produced from agricultural

feedstocks. It can be made from very common crops such as sugar cane, potato, manioc and
corn. There has been considerable debate about how useful bioethanol will be in replacing
gasoline. Concerns about its production and use relate to increased food prices due to the large
amount of arable land required for crops, as well as the energy and pollution balance of the
whole cycle of ethanol production, especially from corn. Recent developments with cellulosic
ethanol production and commercialization may allay some of these concerns.

Cellulosic ethanol offers promise because cellulose fibers, a major and universal
component in plant cells walls, can be used to produce ethanol. According to the International

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Energy Agency, cellulosic ethanol could allow ethanol fuels to play a much bigger role in the
future than previously thought.

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 LITERATURE SURVEY

SL Author Title Volume/Year

no.
1 M. Viswanath Raaj Literature Review on Hybrid Electric Special Issue –
Vehicles 2018
2 M. R. Sankar Design and Development of Solar assisted Volume 3,2013
bicycle‖, International Journal of Scientific
and Research Publications
3 S. Sharma In Research and Applications—A Review‖, vol. 6 2015
Materials Sciences and Applications

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 AIM AND OBJECTIVES

• A fuel efficient motor cycle

• A motorcycle which is not polluting

• Saving fuel with out compromising fun

• Reducing the temperature of the town.

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 NEED OF THE PROJECT

• Less polluting way of transport

• Hybridization of light weight automobile.

• Consumption of less fuel

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 BASIC IDEA

• When the motorcycle reaches the city or traffic area the motor comes into action and uses
the electric power to run . Thus shutting down the engine and saving fuel.

• It also gets an additional reverse gear for convenience.

• The electric motor is placed in the front wheel and oprerates the front wheel . the petrol
poered internal combustion engine powers the rear wheel.

Cad view

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 WORK PLAN

• Buying a donor bike for the project

• Making the necessary alteration for placing the battery pack and the motor.

• Some parts need to be custom fabricated .

• Designing the drive train and drive selector with the reverse gear.

• Placing and fitting every thing Aesthetically .

• Presentation.

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 EXPECTED RESULTS

• A motorcycle which is clean ,fuel efficient, and fun to drive .

• As it is an hybrid we can use both the engines and can obtain a better performance.

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 BENIFITS TO INDIA

• Less fuel consumption

• Less noise

• Less pressure on clutch ,thus transmission load is less and results in long life of the
engine.

• For some people hybrids are an add on advantage because it can use both the power
source thus making it little more powerful.

• It becomes more suitable for metro cities with high traffic .

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 APPLICATIONS

These typesof ethanol powered four stroke two wheeler vehicle with front wheel electric
drivehave a wide range of applications in the fields like,

 Automobile application
 Two wheeler Application
 Four wheeler Applications

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 LIST OF MATERIALS

SL. NO. NAME OF THE PARTS MATERIAL QUANTITY

1 Hub motor - 1

2 Battery - 1

3 Engine - 1

4 Vehicle setup PVC 1

5 Chain MS 1

6 Sprocket MS 2

7 Bearing MS 4

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 COST ESTIMATION

a) MATERIALS COST
SL. NO. NAME OF THE PARTS QUANTITY AMOUNT (RS)
1 Hub motor 1 9000
2 Battery 1 3800
4 Vehicle setup 1 4000
5 Chain 1 500
6 Sprocket 2 2x500=1000
7 Bearing 4 4x70=280
TOTAL =18550

b) LABOUR COST
Labour cost includes the following: LATHE, DRILLING, WELDING,
GRINDING, POWER HACKSAW, GAS CUTTING.

Cost =2000

c) OVERHEAD CHARGES
The overhead charges are arrived by “Manufacturing cost”

Manufacturing Cost =Material Cost + Labour cost

=18550+2000

=20550

Overhead Charges = 20% of the manufacturing cost

=4110

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 d) TOTAL COST

Total cost = Material Cost + Labour cost + Overhead Charges

=18550+2000+4110

=24660

Total cost for this project =24660

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 CONCLUSION

• This project work has provided us an excellent opportunity and experience, to use our
limited knowledge. We gained a lot of practical knowledge regarding, planning,
purchasing, assembling and machining while doing this project work. We feel that the
project work is a good solution to bridge the gates between the institution and the
industries.
• We are proud that we have completed the work with the limited time successfully. The
DESIGN AND FABRICATION OF ETHANOL POWERED FOUR STROKE
TWO WHEELER VEHICLE WITH FRONT WHEEL ELECTRIC DRIVE is
working with satisfactory conditions. We can able to understand the difficulties in
maintaining the tolerances and also the quality. We have done to our ability and skill
making maximum use of available facilities.
• Thus we have developed an“ETHANOL POWERED FOUR STROKE TWO
WHEELER VEHICLE WITH FRONT WHEEL ELECTRIC DRIVE” which helps
to achieve low cost automation project which helps to clean the floor automatically with
very less amount of manual effort. By using more techniques, they can be modified and
developed according to the applications.

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 REFERENCE
• M. Viswanath, K. M. Arunraja, K. Lakshan Raaj Literature Review on Hybrid Electric
Vehicles Special Issue – 2018

• M. R. Sankar, T. Pushpaveni and V. B. Reddy, ―Design and Development of Solar

assisted bicycle‖, International Journal of Scientific and Research Publications, Volume
3( 3),2013, pp. 452-457, ISSN 2250-3153.

• S. Sharma, K. Kumar Jain and A. Sharma,‖Solar Cells: In Research and Applications—A

Review‖, Materials Sciences and Applications,vol. 6, 2015, pp. 1145-1155
 Milan Pospisil, Gustav Sebor The use of ethanol–gasoline blend as a fuel in an SI engine,
Renewable Energy 29 (2004)

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