Renewable electricity production with some wasted second-life components

Chrin, Phok; Pietrzak‐David, Maria; Maussion, Pascal

doi:10.1109/isie.2016.7744953

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“…The second life of a classical three phase induction machine was presented in (Kim et al, 2016) while the other part of the system built with other re-used equipment in Fig.1. is detailed in (Chrin et al, 2016).…”

Section: Reuse-based System Alternativementioning

confidence: 99%

Life cycle assessment for a solar energy system based on reuse components for developing countries

Kim

Azzaro‐Pantel

Pietrzak‐David

et al. 2019

Journal of Cleaner Production

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In many developing countries, the lack of electricity in rural areas is still a key issue for millions of people. The reuse of discarded components in renewable energy systems, based on the frugal innovation concept, has been identified as a solution for rural electrification in countries where renewable resource is plentiful. Specific emphasis is paid in this work to the application of reuse from an engineering viewpoint for a Renewable Energy System, including a "solar" element, composed of solar Photovoltaic (PV) panels and of modified Power Supply Units (PSUs), a "hydro" part and an energy storage system with used car batteries. The scientific objective of this work is to evaluate the environmental impact of this solution, considering only the solar element, as compared to a conventional system consisting of photovoltaic panels, lead-acid batteries, a charge controller and an inverter for small village consumption. For this purpose, Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) has been selected as a methodological framework and both solutions have been described and sized. The results have shown that in the reuse scenario, the impact of PSUs, Uninterruptable Power Supply Units (UPSs) and a microcontroller kit remains very low (0.12% of total impact) while PV modules contribute significantly (66% of total impact). Nevertheless, the consequences of reusing lead-acid batteries are still significant due to the combination of several effects: their weight, reduced efficiency and the need for frequent replacement. A 40% reduction of the environmental burden obtained by the reuse solution is clearly due to the absence of battery production impacts in the case of reuse. A sensitivity analysis has been performed to determine the impact of parameters such as component efficiency, lifetime and transportation distance on environmental impacts. The efficiency of repurposed PSUs and UPSs is the most significant parameter on the environmental impact categories in the reuse solution.

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Section: Reuse-based System Alternativementioning

confidence: 99%

Life cycle assessment for a solar energy system based on reuse components for developing countries

Kim

Azzaro‐Pantel

Pietrzak‐David

et al. 2019

Journal of Cleaner Production

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“…Recent studies reveal there are various works have been done to generate an electricity from the natural resources and agricultural waste [2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18]. However, a major problem of single source power generation is its dependence on weather condition which sometimes unpredictable, especially in the tropical climate region.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Prospective study of power generation from natural resources using hybrid system for remote area

Yaakub

Noh

Zali

et al. 2020

IJEECS

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<p>Living in the 21st century, electricity has become a need in every society level. However, numbers of the remote area, especially in third world countries still facing difficulty to reach a grid-connected electricity due to various reasons. As such, this paper presents a prospective study of generating an electrical energy that is converted by utilizing natural resources from the sky. It is realized by implementing a hybrid solar-rainwater harvesting system. Combination of 12Vdc 3Watt solar cells and 3.7 Vdc 129mW pico-hydro implemented in the work has given a great yield reaching average 921 milliwatts of energy produced by the natural resources.</p>

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“…This last solution as a high cost and a complexity which is not suitable for pico-hydro power in the rural areas of developing countries. As a "juugad" solution, simple low cost solution using a 3-phase induction motor as a single phase generator has been proposed in [11] [12] and [13].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Measuring rotor speed with a smartphone camera

Carlier

Maussion

et al. 2017

IECON 2017 - 43rd Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society

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This paper presents a new method to measure a rotor speed using a smartphone camera. An image processing algorithm is proposed to measure the rotation speed, based on the periodic detection of a mark placed on the rotor. Experiments demonstrate our method can estimate rotor speed with a good precision, provided that the camera frame rate is high enough. The method could be very useful for periodic speed measurement in applications where a sensor is prohibited, for example in picohydro-turbine for rural electrification. Since the smartphones are almost everywhere, they contribute to cost and environmental impact reductions in such solutions. The rest of the system is composed of reused components according to the principles of frugal innovation.

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Renewable electricity production with some wasted second-life components

Cited by 6 publications

References 10 publications

Life cycle assessment for a solar energy system based on reuse components for developing countries

Life cycle assessment for a solar energy system based on reuse components for developing countries

Prospective study of power generation from natural resources using hybrid system for remote area

Measuring rotor speed with a smartphone camera

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