Distributed pumped micro-hydro for transforming energy and water access

分布式抽水微型水电用于改变能源和水的获取

• 批准号: 105278
• 金额: $ 61.55万
• 依托单位: WATER POWERED TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2019 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=105278
• 关键词: Distributed; pumped; micro; hydro; transforming

Water Powered Technologies Ltd (WPT) range of patented zero energy pumps work 24/7, taking excess surface water from remote streams & lakes to allow a community to generate its own hydro power when their own renewables cannot. After installing +1000 of its pump systems in +22 countries, WPT noticed its systems were often installed and maintained by women, which now needs formal support to study how to include women right from start and even assembling the product in each community. Secondly, WPT needs support to develop its systems to be used in countries where drought limits surface water sources. WPT will donate and install up to 30x Papa pumps each in Uganda and Malawi; each site will move water long distances to elevated storage without needing any expensive or polluting fossil fuel. Where, thanks to the extra water able to stored, the community can manage their own water/ power choices, by releasing water to generate power when needed at night or keeping the water for agricultural use when drought returns. The project will study how different social groups could be involved in assembling and supplying systems to neighbouring communities - so the project will support not just a technical but also a pioneering 'business model innovation' to create jobs in groups prevously excluded.

Water Powered Technologies Ltd（WPT）的专利零能耗泵系列全天候工作，从偏远的溪流和湖泊中抽取多余的地表水，让社区在自己的可再生能源无法发电时自行发电。在22个国家安装了1000多个泵系统后，WPT注意到其系统通常由妇女安装和维护，现在需要正式支持来研究如何从一开始就包括妇女，甚至在每个社区组装产品。第二，WPT需要得到支持，以发展其系统，用于干旱限制地表水资源的国家。WPT将在乌干达和马拉维捐赠并安装多达30台Papa泵;每个站点将长距离将水输送到高架存储，而无需任何昂贵或污染的化石燃料。由于能够储存额外的水，社区可以管理自己的水/电选择，在夜间需要时释放水来发电，或在干旱恢复时保留水用于农业用途。该项目将研究不同的社会群体如何参与组装和向邻近社区提供系统-因此该项目不仅将支持技术，而且还将支持开创性的“商业模式创新”，为被严重排斥的群体创造就业机会。