R.I.S.E: Renewable & Integrated Systems of Energy
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R.I.S.E: Renewable & Integrated Systems of EnergyA technical model for the energy, water, sanitation and recycling needs for a sustainable community
Students: Paola Davalos, Sergio Baltodano, Michael Enriquez, Natalia Duque, Babacar CisseAdvising Professors: Andrés Tremante, Berrin Tansel
The Mechanical and Materials and the Civil and Environmental Engineering Departments at Florida International University
Problem Statement
Motivation
Responsibilities
Proposed Designs
Timeline
Prototyping and Testing
Objectives
Team Members
There is a need for an interdisciplinary approach to assess technical solutions to some of mankind's most pressing issues: energy and water security, climate change, plastic waste reuse, and the development of a community focused expertise in sustainability.
Explore new areas of research in sustainable development to address global issues from a multi-disciplinary and technical perspective
Develop an innovative recycler to transform used plastics into 3D printing material
Extrude recycled filament at a rate of at least 4 ft/min
Assure material properties of recycled plastics are within the range of virgin thermoplastics. (HDPE) & (PET)
Design a low-head pico-hydro turbine using recycled material to generate at least 10 Watts
Sergio Baltodano: Material testing, examination of energy storage options, and energy unit data acquisition
Michael Enriquez: Design of recycling unit and parts acquisition
Babacar Cisse: Design and analysis of pico hydro turbine
Paola Davalos & Natalia Duque: Water and sanitation systems design and analysis
Team: Assembly of recycling unit, prototype testing, integration of components
Sustainable Development
Water Security
Renewable Energy
Economic Growth
Sustainable Waste
Processing
Sustainable Agriculture
Sustainable Community
Manual grinder shreds plastic waste Temperature controller allows
processing of multiple types of plastics
Rotating heating mechanism extrudes grinded plastic into filament for 3D printing.
Pico-hydro water wheel is printed with recycled material
Energy from flowing water is converted to electricity through use of the water wheel and a generator
Proposed designs will be optimized using SolidWorks and ANSYS simulation software
Mechanical properties of recycled polymers will be analyzed through laboratory tensile and thermal testing
Experimental data will be gathered from off-grid energy unit
Sergio Baltodano
Babacar Cisse
Michael Enriquez
Natalia Duque & Paola Davalos
ACTIVITY Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Research & DesignPreliminary ResearchConceptual DesignModeling & SimulationsManufacturing/Testing/AnalysisParts AcquisitionRecycler AssemblyMaterial TestingHydro turbine printingEnergy System AssessmentRain-water filtration AssemblyField Testing Analysis
Spool
Heating Element
Electronics Enclosure
Geared Motor
Auger Bit
Hopper
Nozzle
Cooling Fan
Screw (front side) & nut (backside)
Double bucket
Rotor
Shaft housing