Lab 3 Memo - The Generators

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Memo To: Professor Itua Date: October 17, 2017 From: The Generators: Andrew Cueto, Aira Limbaco, Alexa Robles, Ian Phelps, and Donovan Velasquez Project Title: Water Battery Executive Summary There are many ways of storing and creating energy. Some ways are efficient while others are not. For example the use of lithium ion batteries which will be discussed in this memo. The best way to generate energy is to use the natural areas that surround us. Our objective is to use the natural environment and gravity to store energy for Chile, Los Andes. This energy can be distributed in many ways. For instance, powering homes, local stores, or even a reserve for natural disasters, like hurricanes, that would prevent the loss of energy when an event happens. Our goals are to create a way to generate energy with renewable resources, store the energy using gravity, and then harvest this energy later to power the country's power grid. In order to effectively use all the energy that the solar panel gives off, we will use the excess energy that is lost and use it for the new water battery. This will make good use of the energy and create more power to be stored for later. The water situation in comparison to another area such as Puerto Rico where they had a recent hurricane yielding about twenty inches of rainfall, the water is very abundant. It is possible to relocate this water to the reservoirs for the water battery and use the water to generate more energy. The energy stored can go right back to help people who are in need. In this memo, we will be discussing the use of water and gravity to store energy, materials needed, estimated cost, and how the project works as a whole. A Case for the Project The Water Battery project is important because of the following reasons: ○ It is a new way to store more energy using the natural environment. ○ It is an efficient method of creating energy in comparison to harmful ways of creating or using energy. ○ It is very beneficial in terms of balancing loads within the overall power system. ○ It is also very economical due to peak and off-peak differentials. Project Description Water Battery- We are going to use energy from a battery to power a water pump and that energy is being stored in the form of potential energy ready to be harvested at any time. Then we will drop the water back down into a water turbine. We measure the amount of electrical energy the water pump uses to push the water upward. Then the amount of water stored in the upper reservoir is measured in ounces. The water is then released into the water turbine that then charges the original battery backup, and we account for the amount of energy lost in the transition.
Figure 1 (Above): 2D Diagram of the System Figure 2 (Above): 3D of the System Diagram System Diagram:
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