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

NozzleCooling Fan

Screw (front side) & nut (backside)

Double bucket

Rotor

Shaft housing