Green Energy for railway train mounted Wind Generator

The electricity demand remains a challenge to African society, this project aims at saving energy by using natural renewable energy resource (wind) to supply enough energy to the passenger train normally known as a Coach or Motor Coach (MC). This is done by mounting specially designed wind turbines on the roof of moving locomotives. Transnet, which is the railway giants in South Africa, their officials agreed that only small specially designed wind turbines can be potentially viable and be implemented. Basically, a series of wind turbines will be placed on the roof top of the railway trains. The wind (kinetic energy) will be used as a source to produce the mechanical energy to the aero foil blades of the turbine. The energy will then be converted to electrical energy by the generator installed in the wind turbine. Therefore, the electricity produced will be used to run the various loads connected to the coach cabins, which includes; tubes lights, fans and etc.