High-Level Project Summary
our mission is to design/plan a energy storage system that could lasts almost 7000 Venus days (60 earth days)and try to over come the previous un-successful try's. later, we settled with the Lithium Metal system as our main energy storage system that uses lithium ion as a key component of its electrochemistry will provide a few steps procedure (converting from Chemical energy to Thermal energy to Mechanical and then to Electrical energy). furthermore, the system require specific gases to operate it. which are exist in the planet Venus in a excessive amount. in addition, we decided to use Fuel cells as the backup energy storing system which convert Chemical energy to Electrical energy.
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Detailed Project Description
the project goal is to plan a energy storage system to be used in Venus for total of 1440 hours.
main chosen energy storage system the Lithium Metal Battery:
Lithium metal batteries are advanced battery technology that uses lithium ion as a key component of its electrochemistry . Through combustion the chemical energy is converted to thermal energy, then it is converted to mechanical energy and then converted to electrical, however, the gases required are costly nevertheless the required gases are already available in the planet itself meaning that buying these expensive gases are not needed. Furthermore, they last for about 15-20 years and that would increase the possibility of survive the Venus circumcisers.
The backup energy storage system Fuel cells.
It is an electrochemical device which converts chemical energy to electrical and heat it flows through the cell.
So this is our design for the energy power system that was implemented in sloid works software which is the lithium metal battery
So at first we designed the outer case of the system which is made of nickel coated material and the martial can withstand under the high temperatures up to 3000 C approximately
Also we filled the interior of the case with Carbon fiber as an isolator to protect the components that are included inside the case from high temperature
Furthermore, the mass of our system is 5.6 KG and the volume is 79 milli meter cube finally the dimensions are chosen based on fundamental first design.
Space Agency Data
the Data provided helped to travel through all possibility's and options to use, and the benefits.
Hackathon Journey
as a group we all agree that all of us enjoyed the journey and earned a lot of different benefits from gaining experiences and different set of skills and working on a deadline plus meting different people from around the country with different ages and mindsets and it showed the bright future this generation will have.
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