(MENAFN- The Peninsula) deepak john |
The Peninsula
Doha: Technology has made enormous strides in the sector of wind and solar power. The growing use of renewable energy sources are the cornerstone of energy transition as with continuous innovation they are becoming increasingly efficient and competitive.
The students at Community College of Qatar (CCQ) have been working on innovative designs to generate electricity from wind energy.
Speaking to The Peninsula, Dr. Faysal Eliyan, Assistant Professor, Engineering Technology Department at CCQ, said,“The prototypes are all homemade, utilising the available resources by combining the aspects of mechanical and electrical aspects of the projects. The requirement is that the designs need to be modern, stylish and aesthetic with high degree of functionality and operability which comes with different circuitries and options to be user friendly.”
Speaking about the upcoming projects he said,“In future such types of prototypes will be updated and utilised for incubation programmes to look for commercilisation opportunities for these turbines to be sold in Qatari market.
“We already tested one prototype from the electrical engineering department and we saw that the power was almost one watt which is good enough to recharge a battery to use for charging devices and other gadgets.”
Dr. Eliyan added,“Also, in future we have the intention to make more competitions for best designs and cars which can work solely by solar radiation. We have plans for drones and other cutting-edge technologies to give the students a chance to make them at home (in house). At CCQ, in our labs we have all the tools that students need to produce and construct their own devices.”
“At the end of the project they are all evaluated by professors coming from other institutions besides the professors of CCQ. We are hosting professors from Qatar University and University of Doha of Science and Technology (UDST),” he noted.
Recently, the Mechanical Engineering Division of Engineering Technology Department at CCQ organised the 'Top Turbine' competition which saw a group of students taking part in a competition to create innovative designs that generate electricity from wind energy suitable for open and camping places.
Elaborating about the competition, Dr. Eliyan noted that the students designed five different protocols and they will all go to a competition from which we would operate a big fan that generates an artificial wind flow at a specific speed and distance, so that we can measure from the rotation the power.
Talking to The Peninsula about the project, Nora Al Heidous, a student of Mechanical Engineering department said,“A group of three students was involved in this project. We all helped each other and made the final design. Making the design was challenging, but it was successful.”