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The adverse effects of climate change impact the “public health, agriculture, water supplies, energy production, land use and development, and recreation”, according to the United States Environmental Protection Agency (2020, para. 1). The greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions contribute to the increasing level of carbon dioxide content (CO2) in our atmosphere. One of the key factors of the GHG is the consumption of grid-generated electricity to run our residential home appliances and devices. Second, the rapid economic development triggers the increasing population size and urbanization that tends to decrease the agricultural space, while increasing energy consumption. Thus, the main benefits of our project that are aligned with Sustainable Development Goals include: (1) providing adequate food for every family, which will ensure zero hunger, (2) utilizing the solar energy, which will adapt the advocacy to use affordable and clean energy in the residential and agricultural sector, and (3) bringing up to climate action (United Nations, 2018).
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"In Hybrid pumped storage system, our idea is to generate electricity using renewable energy resources such has hydro and solar. As we know that the cost of electricity is more during day time or peak load time while at night it is marginally less or even half. We can pump water to an upper reservoir during night at low cost of consumption and generate electricity during day time when we need to manage peak load. Also, solar panels installed at the roof can help us in achieving this.
Our project model is a small model of a building,
Dimensions:
Length: 3ft
Breadth : 0.5ft
Height: 4ft
we are using the following electrical components:
- a 12VDC, 10W generator,
- a 12VDC, 5W pump motor
- a 15VDC, 6W amorphous silicon solar panel
- 12VDC led light (primary load), 4VDC led light (secondary load)
- 10AH battery
- 12V/24V solar charge controller
Water storage:
- Two 10-gallon tanks
- 1/2” piping system
In the beginning of the demonstration water will be pumped to upper tank and water will gain potential energy. Once the upper tank is completely filled with water, we will turn off the pump motor and simply turn on the flow of water through the turbine generator. With the help of gravity, the potential energy in water will be converted to kinetic energy. Water at high speed and pressure will hit the turbine of generator and rotate it. This rotation will cause change in magnetic flux density. When this flux links with the stator winding, current will induced in the stator winding. As the generation process is taking place during day time, solar panel will also be providing electrical energy through solar charge controller.
When this system utilized at large scale can help in the following ways:
- Overcome electric power scarcity in countries like India
- Frequency regulation
- Possibility to balance varying consumer load
- Energy storage provides stability and reliability
- Less peak hour electricity charges.
Other benefits include, less water wastage as same water is being used again and again, low operational and maintenance cost, etc."
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"Building energy performance, occupants’ comfort, material and water resources are often compromised in the conventional residential buildings. LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) is the most widely used green building rating system in the world and it is a globally recognized symbol of sustainability achievement and leadership. Hence, the LEED framework was selected to address these buildings issues by creating a highly efficient, healthy, and cost-saving green building model.
The project goal was to design and build an operational model of a LEED certified building and achieve LEED Platinum certification (minimum 80 points). The project team has used Autodesk Revit and Insight software to perform a Building Information Modelling (BIM) and an in-depth system optimization. This model considered multiple variables: Building Orientation, Thermal Resistance, Window Shading, Double Glazed Windows, Infiltration, Daylighting, Plug Load Efficiency, PV Panel Efficiency, and Roof Construction. The control system was made using Arduino IoT Cloud via Wi-Fi, by which the user can have full access to an energy dashboard through phone/desktop.
By using passive and active technologies for humidity, temperature, and lighting controls, the built model has accomplished several benefits such as high energy performance, occupants’ comfort, optimal material selection, water savings, indoor environmental quality, and minimum environmental impacts in comparison with the ASHRAE 90.1 benchmark. The integrated building design approach and smart technologies implemented in this building model allowed to achieve the points for eight LEED credit categories: Location and Linkages (8 points), Sustainable Sites (13 points), Water Efficiency (15 points), Energy and Atmosphere (17.5 points), Material and Resources (10.5 points), Indoor Environmental Quality (10 points), Innovation & Design (4 points), and Awareness & Education (3 points). The total number of LEED credit points achieved were 81 by which the team was able to get Platinum LEED Certification for the model."
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"Our project intends to develop a novel device and system that aids the visually impaired in navigating their urban environments. We get to places by walking on pathways. These could be outdoors on sidewalks and walkways or indoors in hallways. They can be complex leading to all sorts of places with many intersections and alternative paths. Normally people make sense of these pathways by using their sight to look around and see where these paths lead to as well as to know whether or not they stick to their paths. However, what if someone cannot see where they are going because they cannot see? This is a problem that the visually impaired face. Our project is meant to solve this problem. In order to help them stick to their paths and to detect intersections and alternative paths, we developed a system wherein paths are marked with a coloured line. This coloured line system marks all possible paths. Therefore, by tracking this line, one can be aware of the paths, where they lead and adjoining paths and intersections. In order to track the line, a device is needed to sense it. This device is the Smart Cane. It can be used just like any other white cane but its, well, smarter. It has a colour sensor at its end that detects the path. The user waves the stick along the path. Everytime it goes over it, the device beeps. Thus signalling to the user the presence of the path. By waving it around, the user can know where intersections and other possible paths exist. The smart cane and the accompanying coloured line path system are inexpensive, simple, easy to use and effective. Therefore, this product could offer another useful tool for the disabled in raising accessibility, safety and quality of life. "
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Canada is a country that has various crops that are important to the Canadian population,but is very difficult for plants to grow due to the low temperature. In Ontario, for example, most of the year the climate is not proper to plant growth, so it is important to designsystems that maintain a suitable temperature and are economically profitable. This projectproposes to generate a collector that works with flat-type solar energy and that allows thetransfer of the energy obtained to a prototype greenhouse. This transfer will be through acopper pipe which will have a fluid that allows the exchange of heat from the energycaptured by the solar collector to the greenhouse prototype. It is planned to maintain a stabletemperature close to 28ºC since this is optimal for the growth of fruits and vegetables.
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The name of our project is solar powered Bluetooth controlled prototype car. Even though thedescription says solar powered, it is powered through both solar and batteries. This Bluetoothcontrolled car is very sleek and compact that makes it go through small spaces. Controlled usinga phone, the circuit which has the brains as the latest Arduino Board, gives the user absolutecontrol of the prototype car. This car is solar powered to promote the use of renewableresources.The components used in the project are:(i)Arduino Board(ii)Bluetooth Module (HC05)(iii)L293D Motor Driver(iv)Solar Panel(v)Geared Motors(vi) Wheels(vii) Chassis(viii) Phone (for control)
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"Doorbell systems are an essential form of notifying a person in a building of one’s arrival for residential, commercial and industrial applications. However, due to the pandemic, health officials are pushing the idea of transforming into a contactless society in our day to day lives. Moreover, the touchless doorbell prototype takes the existing doorbell system and transforms it into a contactless/touchless design that can be implemented in residential, commercial and industrial applications. This design will allow for an additional step forward towards stopping the spread of Covid-19.
The design of the touchless doorbell system will replace the already existing physical button with an ultrasonic sensor which will send the signal to the buzzer rather than the button. When working with sensors, an important factor to take into consideration is the distance at which the designer would like the sensor to start operating at. For the touchless doorbell system, we want to choose a distance where the user does not need to get fairly close to the sensor to operate the buzzer but also limit the distance to a value to where if someone were to be just walking past the door the sensor would not pick up that signal. The chosen range/distance the buzzer will operate is when the user is less than or equal to 6 centimetres in proximity to the sensor. The operation of the touchless doorbell system is similar to that of a regular doorbell system with the added hands-free capability. When approaching the doorbell sensor, the user is to wave their hand/object in front of the sensor within a 6-centimeter distance and remove one’s hand/object after a second or two has gone by. For more urgent applications where the occupants of the building are needed to answer the door as quickly as possible, the user can keep their hand/object in front of the sensor for a longer period of time."
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We are in the process of making a model village based off of a third world country that does not havethe readily available resources like we do. This includes “model” homes that would be powered byeither a mini solar power farm or wind turbines (depending on what side of the board it is on). Thiswould display that we as a growing society do not need to be using non-renewable resources,everything can be powered by renewable resources. Therefore, by including resources that use naturalenvironmental by-products/stimulants we can cut out some of the hazards that can be produces duringthe process of creating electricity (pollutants).
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"The system utilized an Arduino-UNO microcontroller to control motion of two servo motors, which rotate solar panel in two axes.
The amount of rotation was determined by the microcontroller, baased on inputes retrieved from four photo sensors located next to solar panel. At the end of the project, a functional solar tracking system was designed and implemented.
It was able to keep the solar panel aligned with the sun, or any light source repetitively. Design of the solar tracker form this project is also a reference an starting point for the development of more advanced systems in the future. "
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In this project energy available naturally is used to generate power and light up the streetlight. Not only the naturally available energy but also the wind energy generated by the car. Two kind of energy is available naturally for our project that is Solar and Wind Energy. The moving car on the highway also generates the wind energy which we used to produce power. The wind turbine is rotated by the wind generated by the car as well as it is available naturally. The power generated in send to charge controller of solar and wind energy to control the charge with the variation of the generation of power. Through charge controller the power is used to charge the battery as well as the used to turn the lights ON. During the nighttime when the solar energy is not available and the also the wind energy is also available in less proportion, the energy stored in the battery is used to by the light. This way the naturally available energy as well as the energy which we never think of, is used to generate the power, and reduce the cost of the investment and maintenance done by the government over the years.