According to the European Environmental Agency, waste is not only an environmental problem, but it is also an economic loss. An example would be, Europeans produce 481 kilograms per person of municipal waste per year and this continent generates a large amount of waste in the form of food, garden compose, construction, mining, industrial, sludge, electronics, cars, plastic, sanitary, clothes and furniture.

The amount of waste generated in this continent is highly linked to the consumption and production patterns and the sheer number of products entering the market poses another challenge. For example, the changes in demographic such as the increase in the number of one-person households, also affects the amount of waste generated.

This situation is also no different in the APJ (Asia Pacific and Japan) region as waste are a problem here too.

Therefore, our team, the Turbine Dwellers consisting of three people have decided to come up with the Multi Material Steam Turbine project to tackle the waste issue. We do this by combining waste materials to build a turbine that can rotate upon powered by steam.

As there are two major challenges in this project which are heat and vibration, we plan to make use of the DE10-Nano Cyclone V SoC FPGA Board together with Microsoft Azure IoT coupled with 2 QuickEval Boards from Analog Devices namely, LT6203 and LTC2984.

The idea behind this is that since our turbine would be made out of multi material from recycled waste such as plastics, wood chips and others, it is crucial to monitor vibration and heat generated from the turbine in order to operate the turbine in a useful manner to generate electricity.

Later, and if the turbine fails during its operation, the temperature and vibration reading would be logged and pushed to the cloud so that, the community could learn from the different types and combination of recycled materials and how they can be fused optimally into a turbine to generate electricity.

Hence, many of these data could be translated into useful information for communities whom wishes to use their waste to generate electricity via this method, thus fulfilling our team’s vision to a green and sustainable future.

Our vision through this project, is expected to reach the goal of reducing the cost of waste management significantly by 85 % and conserving valuable lands from becoming landfills since the waste would be made into turbines to generate electricity.

Block Diagram could be found here:

https://1drv.ms/b/s!As2N6ZPEYC1opVAsSXWk2siqEoWJ?e=lAUwGd

Project Proposal

1. High-level project introduction and performance expectation

According to the European Environmental Agency, waste is not only an environmental problem, but it is also an economic loss.  An example would be, Europeans produce 481 kilograms per person of municipal waste per year and this continent generates a large amount of waste in the form of food, garden compose, construction, mining, industrial, sludge, electronics, cars, plastic, sanitary, clothes and furniture.   

The amount of waste generated in this continent is highly linked to the consumption and production patterns and the sheer number of products entering the market poses another challenge. For example, the changes in demographic such as the increase in the number of one-person households, also affects the amount of waste generated.  

This situation is also no different in the APJ (Asia Pacific and Japan) region as waste are a problem here too. 

Therefore, our team, the Turbine Dwellers consisting of three people have decided to come up with the Multi Material Steam Turbine project to tackle the waste issue. We do this by combining waste materials to build a turbine that can rotate upon powered by steam.  

As there are two major challenges in this project which are heat and vibration, we plan to make use of the DE10-Nano Cyclone V SoC FPGA Board together with Microsoft Azure IoT coupled with 2 QuickEval Boards from Analog Devices namely, LT6203 and LTC2984. 

The idea behind this is that since our turbine would be made out of multi material from recycled waste such as plastics, wood chips and others, it is crucial to monitor vibration and heat generated from the turbine in order to operate the turbine in a useful manner to generate electricity.  

Later, and if the turbine fails during its operation, the temperature and vibration reading would be logged and pushed to the cloud so that, the community could learn from the different types and combination of recycled materials and how they can be fused optimally into a turbine to generate electricity. 

Hence, many of these data could be translated into useful information for communities whom wishes to use their waste to generate electricity via this method, thus fulfilling our team’s vision to a green and sustainable future.

2. Block Diagram

3. Expected sustainability results, projected resource savings

Our vision through this project, is expected to reach the goal of reducing the cost of waste management significantly by 85 % and conserving valuable lands from becoming landfills since the waste produced by communities would be made into turbines to generate electricity.

Once we are successful in this project of ours, we would publish our design under Open Source Licensing. From that point onwards, it would be a community wide effort as each folk are to design their respective turbine using their waste.

Let us take plastics as an example, and in this scenario, folks could replicate the use of DE10-Nano Cyclone V SoC FPGA Board, QuickEval Modules and Microsoft Azure IoT to operate their turbine.

Since the turbines are made out of waste, they are expected to breakdown at a point. The good part of this entire idea is that, the point of which the turbines malfunction, the temperature and vibration readings would be logged and pushed to the cloud. Therefore, through this, communities could learn various combinations of waste that could be made into turbines and at which point they may malfunction to predict on reliabilities or to improve on existing designs.

The best part of this idea, is that folks do not lose anything from a malfunctioned turbine as the turbines are made entirely out of waste. In fact, they would be able to generate electricity out of it until the turbines malfunction.

Hence, we believe that this idea which we are going to implement in our project would immensely be in alignment towards a sustainable eco-friendly future for our planet.

4. Design Introduction

5. Functional description and implementation

6. Performance metrics, performance to expectation

7. Sustainability results, resource savings achieved

8. Conclusion