US-Pakistan Cooperative Research: Sustainable Homestead

描述：该奖项将支持佛罗里达州迈阿密大学清洁能源研究所所长T.Nejat Veziroglu教授和巴基斯坦伊斯兰堡国家硅技术研究所（N.I.S.T.）总干事Parvez Akhter博士之间的合作研究项目。这两个小组计划进行一个试点研究项目，用于“可持续家园”的概念设计和测试，其中家庭的电力、燃料、热能和照明需求将由可持续或可再生能源满足，例如太阳能。这个想法包括设计混合太阳能集热器，将绝缘转化为热能和电能。然后，热量被储存在储热罐中，而电力则用于生产氢气和氧气的正常电力需求，或者储存在电池中。产生的氢将作为清洁燃料用于其他需求。在理论研究中，将得到各子系统的运行特性和效率与供需系统的关系。理论研究将扩展到产生一个优化成本的程序。在实验调查中，将在巴基斯坦的一个宅基地内对“可持续宅基地”的太阳能、热能、电力、氢、氧、阳光、控制和安全子系统进行设计，并对子系统和整个系统进行测试和评估。范围：该项目将支持两个具有互补资格和机构设施的科学团队在多学科研究工作中的合作。美国科学家在可再生能源特别是氢能研究方面一直处于领先地位，而巴方在太阳能光伏电池的设计、制造和利用方面有着悠久的经验。要解决的问题是证明可再生能源在分布式用户系统中的效用是重要的。满足能源需求的小型分布式系统比大型电力系统更经济、更环保，因为大型电力系统需要向巴基斯坦和许多其他发展中国家这样的偏远地区提供所需的配电系统。这个项目将与巴基斯坦政府授权的一个更大的项目“太阳能公园”相适应，该项目是大规模利用可再生能源的实际示范。一名来自迈阿密大学的年轻美国科学家和一名来自美国国家科学技术研究院的科学家将参与该项目。该项目完全符合国际项目司的目标。

9918201VezirogluDescription: This award will support a collaborative research project between Professor T.Nejat Veziroglu, Director, Clean Energy Research Institute, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, and Dr. Parvez Akhter, Director General, the National Institute for Silicon Technology (N.I.S.T.) in Islamabad, Pakistan. The two teams plan to conduct a pilot research project for the conceptual design and testing of a "sustainable homestead", in which electricity, fuel, thermal energy and lighting needs of a home would be met by a sustainable or renewable energy source, such as solar energy. The idea involves designing hybrid solar collectors, which converts insulation to heat and electricity. Heat is then stored in thermal storage tanks, while the electricity is to be used for normal electric requirements to produce hydrogen and oxygen, or to be stored in electric batteries. The hydrogen produced will be used as a clean fuel for other requirements. In the theoretical study, the relations between the operational characteristics and efficiency of each sub-system and the supply and demand system will be obtained. The theoretical investigation will be expanded to generate a program for optimizing the cost. In the experimental investigation, the designs for the solar, thermal, electrical, hydrogen, oxygen, sunlight, control and safety sub-systems of the "sustainable homestead" will be carried out and built within a homestead in Pakistan for tests and evaluation of the subsystems and the overall system. Scope: This project will support collaboration between two scientific teams with complementary qualifications and institutional facilities in a multidisciplinary research effort. The US scientist has been a leader in research on renewable energy sources, especially hydrogen energy, while the Pakistani side has long experience in the design, manufacture and utilization of solar photovoltaic cells. The problem to be addressed, proving the utility of renewable energy sources in distributed system of users, is important. Small distributed systems for meeting energy needs are more economical and environmentally more benign than large power systems with the required distribution systems to far-flung areas as in Pakistan and in many other developing countries. This project will fit well within a larger project entitled "Solar Park" which the Government of Pakistan has authorized as a practical demonstration of utilizing renewable energy on a large scale. One junior US scientist from the University of Miami and one from N.I.S.T. will participate in the project. The project fits well within the objectives of the Division of International Programs.