Team 01 - Solar-Trough Thermofluidic Pumped HEPS

Our Innovation meets Goal 7: Affordable and clean energy of SDG.
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Inspiration

Affordable and clean energy is a basic need for all and due to pandemic, it has become more and more important. In many places around the world, people are not getting enough electricity. So, we thought to do something for them. With the continuous developments of power plants and desire to build alternative, effective and efficient power plants, concentrated solar power (CSP) plants (and more specifically the parabolic trough CSP plants) have proven to be one of the alternative energy resources for the future. Therefore more emphasis is being put on improving this power plant technology.

What it does

CSP is used to produce electricity (sometimes called solar thermoelectricity, usually generated through steam). Concentrated-solar technology systems use mirrors or lenses with tracking systems to focus a large area of sunlight onto a small area. The concentrated light is then used as heat or as a heat source for a conventional power plant (solar electricity). Our Innovation covers Goal 7: Affordable and clean energy of SDG.

How we built it

We use this Heat and run a Thermofluidic pump which will pump the water to the upper reservoir from the lower reservoir. Between these two water reservoirs, we fit a turbine which will run by the water from the upper reservoir running towards the lower reservoir. This hydro turbine will provide electricity to consumers.

Challenges we ran into

Before this idea, we were using PV/wind power, and the electricity produced from PV/wind is fed to the electric water pump, which is less efficient.so we proposed concentrated solar power (CSP) parabolic-trough Thermofluidic engine pumped hydro energy storage.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

• 200% higher efficiency than PV (Using CSP with TES) • 15% higher efficiency pumping • Double the life-time • Utilizes high DNI of Africa & South-East Asia.

What we learned

We learned about the uses of more power with less cost through advanced technologies. we also learned about the importance of Sustainable Development Goals and its future. Our project will contribute a lot to power resilience at night and provide 215% more power, the maintenance is also very low

What's next for Team 01 - Solar-Trough Thermofluidic Pumped HEPS

We will like to work more on Humanity and Sustainable Development Goals in the future. Apart from that, 300 million people approximately would get electricity when the project is implemented. R&D and feasibility test require for that will be $26K (IEEE HAC, IEEE Foundation, UNDP, US DOE, World Bank)

Built With

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Submitted to

SolvIEEE it! Humanitarian Competition : Facing Pandemics with Ideas

Created by

I have worked on both front and back end of the project. Along with my team members I brainstormed on the idea that we were working on. I prepared the presentation and made the video and also made the submission. I have sent necessary emails to my teammates and mentors for communications. While researching about this topic I learned new technologies to produce more and clean energy to the future. It was a really great experience for me.

Mazeda Zafor
i worked on the front end.i'm also scrum master in my team.my whole team worked very well and contribute in the project.i also contacted to whole team and mentors and organised Zoom meetings and also contribute in presentation making.i learned a lot from this competition.i learned about CSP parabolic trough and Thermofluidic pump,pv and wind power plants.

Abrar Younas
Energy storage is important and use of resources provided by nature like sunlight and water should be properly exploited to help in the current needs and also conserve some of these resources like water for the future generations.

lesh allano