Project Overview
Project Description
The project aims to experimentally prove out the winning solution to the International Rescue Committee (IRC) open-innovation challenge “Reducing Fossil Fuel Dependency of Syrian Irrigation Systems”. The project aims to focus on achieving below outcomes.
- Review and validate that the current design with a set of 2 large Fresnel lenses can produce enough heat in a graphite powder heat-accumulator so that it is able to power a Melvin engine to produce 3kW of clean electrical power. This review can inform the various decisions for building of the physical system.
- Determine the necessary refinement of the system to enable optimal power output. This includes design updates and operating procedures.
- Analyse the electrical output to verify it will be able to run a deep-well submersible pump similar to DSP4RFF08.
Impact
After successful design and testing of the physical system, the International Rescue Committee (IRC) aims to develop and deploy a few systems in an underserved community in the identified global region. And it is aimed to produce it larger scale for mass deployment by IRC to various global geographic locations.
