AWKA - The fascinating and most tasking moments in school is during Finals, cos it consists of various projects which is used to illustrate the effectiveness of a given course studied...So With final year projects making the waves in UNIZIK, we present to you a team of UNIZIK students that have
assembled various distinct parts to produce the first made-in-Nigeria "ELECTRIC
POWER BIKE" which they have named
“EBS ONE”. This is definitely a milestone in
the Nigerian ongoing Technological advancement.
This team of Mechanical Engineering Students comprises of
ONYEBUCHI CHINONSO, OVOKE PAUL, CHIKA PAUL, UDORA EDISON, NWAFOR PAULING, and
from the department of Electrical Engineering VICTOR IKEH TOCHUKWU.
The project (EBS ONE) has to do with having an electrical
system in place of internal combustion engine of a motorcycle. This electrical
system comprises mainly of; the batteries, a DC motor, the gear system, and an
inverter. The batteries power the motor which in turn moves the gear to bring
about the movement of the rear wheel. i.e batteries>motor>gear>rear
wheel.
The idea of this project is to reduce the dependence on fuel
for motorcycles and reduce ozone layer depletion by carbon compounds due to
combustion of fuels. They fabricated their own Chasis (skeleton). It has the shape
of a modern day power bike. They also made use of Solid works application, Autodesk
Inventor and Matlab for different simulations. Everything involving the project
was done in the school’s workshop. The power system comprises of a 12Volts
6Amps battery, an electric motor and some other materials which were gotten.
THE 6 MAN TEAM
Indeed, Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka is really producing qualified and competitive engineers.
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