Astra Maxica

Dubai | Exploring Venus Together

Project Batmax

High-Level Project Summary

Batmax is a lithium Ion battery pack which uses technologies like thermoelectric plates, wind turbines, solar panels to use the hot temperatures, strong winds, blazing sunlight of venus to power the surface lander or rover on Venus. The idea is to have it placed in the center of the rover with the components like solar panels, wind turbines attached to the rover. (The design will be shown through a 3d model). Lithium Ion battery will be used because they help with mass, volume, energy efficiency, self discharge, and above all lhigh temperature performance. Silicon Carbide will be used to package the whole thing as they can support high voltages at huge temperatures and sustain high impacts.

Link to Final Project

https://www.tinkercad.com/things/73nFdwNMc6q-dazzling-bruticus-juttuli/edit?visibilityInput=1

Link to Project "Demo"

here is the link to my ppt -

Detailed Project Description

Batmax is a lithium ion battery that is powered by wind turbines, solar panels and thermoelectric plates attached to the rover. It uses the harsh sunlight, high winds and extreme heat of Venus to it's advantage, to generate electrical power to power the Venus surface lander or rover. The battery and components will be packaged in silicon carbide material as it supports high voltage, high temperature and high impacts. A lithium ion battery will be used as it will help less mass, volume, more energy efficiency, self discharge, and above all high temperature performance. The solar panels will be folded up like usual. My project will be presented through a tinkercad 3d model.

Space Agency Data

i used NASA's space agency data to help my research on what type of batteries had been used in previous rovers and which type off technologies had been used in other rovers. I think took this in mind and designed my project accordingly.

Hackathon Journey

I have learnt so much doing this project. Like i learnt about venus"s climatic conditions, the power source of Nasa's rovers that go to other planets. Technologies such as thermoelectrical plates, more about wind turbines and solar panels. New materials like silicon carbide etc. I was inspired by the mars nasa rover's solar panel design and battery placement. My approach to this project was to be about all designs, seek inspiration and then develop your own idea. A major setback that i had was that i had to decide how i was going to present my idea whether it was a code, digital art. I ended up on a Tinkercad 's 3D designing software through which i have made my project.

References

https://mars.nasa.gov/mer/

https://thermoelectricsolutions.com/how-thermoelectric-generators-work/#:~:text=Thermoelectric%20generators%20(TEG)%20are%20solid,Seebeck%20effect%20to%20generate%20voltage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium-ion_battery

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_carbide