Design and Development of Reciprocating Pump using Human Power

ABSTRACT Throughout history, human energy has generally been applied through the use of the arms, hands. It was only with the invention of the bicycle, that legs also began to be considered as a normal means of developing power from human muscles. The main use of pedal power today is still for bicycling, at least in the high-power range. In the lower-power range there are a number of uses of pedal power for agriculture, construction, water pumping, and electrical generation. That seem to be potentially advantageous, at least when electrical or internal-combustion engine power is unavailable or very expensive. The main objective is to design & develop a machine which uses human power as source of energy to drive the pump. It basically consists of a simple bicycle mechanism. In many developing countries like India, the gap between the ever increasing demand of power and its generation has prepared a daily busy schedule of load shedding (power cuts). There are millions of people in remote villages in India who lives day to day without reliable power supply. And thus to fulfill the demand of pumping of water for many household and agricultural purposes, spraying purposes the pump is designed.