Fwd: ewb research project ideas: Solar Pond for Developing Countries

[Qasid Safir]

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From: Qasid Safir <qasid...@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 8:20 PM
Subject: Re: ewb research project ideas: Solar Pond for Developing Countries
To: Katie Cresswell-Maynard <katie.cress...@ewb-uk.org>


Hi Katie,

Just been thinking about the solar pond ewb project. 

To get the ball rolling, may I suggest the brief could proceed roughly as follows:

1. .       Requirement for alternative method of electrical power generation in developing countries
2. .       Description of solar pond
3. .       Case studies
4. .       Selection of lining for reservoir (plastic, clay etc) 
5. .       Heat engine consideration (working fluid, turbine, pump, evaporator, condenser). Consider organic rankine/ Kalina cycle.
6. .       Maintenance considerations
7. .       Location (access to salt water supply (coastal), off-grid, significant solar resources, etc) 
8. .       Materials and construction details for proposed system for implementation

Iv attached a few relevant papers. hope this helps.

Qasid

On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 6:02 PM, Qasid Safir <qasid...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Katie,

Thanks for getting back to me on this, i thought you had forgotten.

The solar pond is an idea which I am particularly interested in although I am tied up with the Desert Fridge and my 3rd year research projects so I cant fully concentrate on this at the moment. I would be more than happy to work with any student in a feasibility study for implementing this technology in developing countries.

If we could show this to work I am pretty sure this is something Humanity First would be interested in.

Qasid 

On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 5:45 PM, Katie Cresswell-Maynard <katie.cress...@ewb-uk.org> wrote:

Hi Qasid,

 

Just wanted to say thank you for sending these my way in case you thought I hadn’t got back to you on them – I will look into them and then see if we can develop them as research briefs.

 

All the best,

 

Katie

 

 

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From: Qasid Safir [mailto:qasid...@gmail.com]
Sent: 23 June 2010 02:12
To: Katie Cresswell-Maynard
Subject: ewb research project ideas

 

Hi Katie,

 

hope all is well.

 

Just writing to share some newish ideas which I reckon could be developed into good EWB research projects:

1. Solar ponds: A method of solar power generation (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_pond ) which is "particularly attractive for rural areas in developing countries"...
2. West African super-grid: A brilliant plan to solve the regions energy needs (see attached: page 34: Akosombo Declaration). The various elements of the feasibility study for this scheme could be taken up as EWB research projects.

Also, could I suggest that we establish a link with Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) as there are many projects which they are working on which we could collaborate on with regards to research.

 

Anyway thats my 2 pennies worth!

 

Qasid

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