Design, Construction and Performance Evaluation of a Dual-Powered Cooker

A dual-powered cooker is a combination of components that makes possible the use of alternative heat sources. Due to the irregular power supply common in developing countries, as well as the growing high cost of hydrocarbon fuel sources, the need arises for the development of a dual energy source that uses both electricity and gas for heating and cooking. The aim of this research work is to design, construct and carry out a performance evaluation of a dual-powered cooker. The materials for the research work were locally sourced and selected based on suitability in reference to the design requirement of the cooker. The cooker consists of two divisions, each fitted with a burner operating on distinct energy sources, electricity and gas. Within the electric burner is a heating element that generates and dissipates heat across a hotplate. On the other hand, cooking gas is supplied to the burner located at the other segment of the cooker via a threaded pipe connection to a gas cylinder, secured unto a control mechanism that allows the burning rate to be varied progressively and continuously. The temperature of the water was allowed to synergize with the ambient temperature of the room before testing. Several important findings can be drawn from this assessment. The gas cooker has a higher overall thermal efficiency between (57.50% [without lid] - 62.84% [with lid]) as opposed to the efficiency of its electric counterpart, which falls between (29.78% [without lid] - 39.12% [with lid]). The dual-powered cooker was successfully designed, constructed and evaluated. The gas cooker has a higher efficiency than the electric cooker. Primarily, the gas cooker is at an advantage as it does not need to preheat or rely on power from an electric source subject to fluctuation in voltage before cooking, unlike the electric cooker; therefore, making it better at a wider range of cooking operations.It combines the best of gas and electric cookers. Gas hobs that are quick to heat up and easy to control, plus electric ovens with more accurate heat settings and multiple features.

Automatic Control System for Hybrid Electrical Energy Supply Based on Internet of Things

The utilization of renewable energy is slowly starting to become one thing that to be interesting inside the development of science technology. The utilization of renewable energy is from at least two renewable energy (Solar Power Plants and Wind Power Plants), State Electricity Enterprise (PLN), and Generator Sources. This device could be operated automatically and integrated on the internet, which has a monitoring system such as voltage, inside which will be used to control everything inside that system. This device is designed to be operated in a combinational manner. This means to be operated based on the voltage value which qualified to activate the load. The utilization of the 3.3V microcontroller is able to design an efficient and low-cost board. Besides that, the device also uses the PLN and Generator set sources as the power backup when the main power runs out. Base on the research noted, this device will distribute the electric source to the houses, which means beneficial for the local society. This device might be applied automatically to four different sources with C++ Programming language to set the point value.

Novel bursting patterns and the bifurcation mechanism in a piecewise smooth Chua’s circuit with two scales

The aim of this paper is to investigate the influence of the coupling of two scales on the dynamics of a piecewise smooth dynamical system. A relatively simple model with two switching boundaries is taken as an example by introducing a nonlinear piecewise resistor and a harmonically changed electric source into a typical Chua’s circuit. Taking suitable values of the parameters, four different types of bursting oscillations are observed corresponding to different values of the exciting amplitude. Regarding the periodic excitation as a slow-varying parameter, equilibrium branches of the fast subsystem as well as the related bifurcations, such as fold bifurcation, Hopf bifurcation, period doubling bifurcation, nonsmooth Hopf bifurcation and nonsmooth fold limit cycle bifurcation, are explored with theoretical and numerical methods. With the help of the overlap of the transformed phase portrait and the equilibrium branches, the mechanism of the bursting oscillations can be analyzed in detail. It is found that for relatively small exciting amplitude, since the trajectory is governed by a smooth subsystem, only conventional bifurcations take place, leading to the transitions between the spiking states and quiescent states. However, with an increase of the exciting amplitude so that the trajectory passes across the switching boundaries, nonsmooth bifurcations occurring at the boundaries may involve the structures of attractors, leading to complicated bursting oscillations. Further increasing the exciting amplitude, the number of the spiking states decreases although more bifurcations take place, which can be explained by the delay effect of bifurcation

Design of Small Single Cylinder 4 Stroke Spark Ignition Engine for Electric Generator with Flexible Fuel: Biogas, Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) or Gasoline

The available of conventional fuels are fluctuating depend on distribution from the source production to consumer. The availability of biogas as renewable energy is increasing due to establishments of many organic wastes processing worldwide. The need of electricity to support daily life activity is a must, but the availability of electric source in remote area is limited especially for a farm that far away from commercial line distribution of electricity. This work is dedicated to solve this problem. The single cylinder 4 stroke spark ignition engine (83 cc) was designed to be able to be fuelled flexibly by using biogas or liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), or gasoline if sometime the biogas not available during initiation of the process or during maintenance of anaerobic digester. The engine is still can be run to provide electricity by using conventional fuel such as LPG or gasoline. The full consumption as well as emission of this flexible fuel engine was investigated. It is found that the fuel consumption is 9.97 L/mint for Biogas, 0.004 L/mint for gasoline and 2.24 L/mint for LPG. Surprisingly by using biogas the emission of carbon monoxide (CO) was down to almost zero (0.02 ppm), comparing gasoline 0.32 ppm, and LPG 0.4 ppm.