High-Level Project Summary
Our project proposes to develop a battery that guarantees energy storage, with the extreme conditions of the planet Venus we consider a semiconductor material whose raw material for its manufacture turns out to be accessible and economical, which leads us to replace lithium by Silicon Carbide (SiC) in the conventional battery, thus tending to the improvement of the proposed model itself.
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Detailed Project Description
We propose a battery that can efficiently supply energy for a time interval of 60 to 120 days.
This prototype takes advantage of its physical characteristics in that it does not present resistance in the process of the movement of electrons, it is presumed that its structure and mode of operation are the same as that of a conventional battery.
Silicon Carbide presents physical characteristics that involve its resistance to high temperatures and corrosion resistance and is a perfect candidate qualified to be an alternative for a new generation of efficient batteries to guarantee a "permanent" supply and storage of energy in the face of various possible scenarios of natural disasters (earthquakes, hurricanes, storms, fires, etc.).
Our perspective is to obtain and generate a new version of batteries that are more cost-effective in terms of the time of use and that have relatively more optimal management at the time of disposal when they reach their useful life cycle, we do not expect to limit its implementation in space missions but also to use it to achieve improvements in our quality of life.
In our process of thinking about an optimal solution we resorted to the use of a 3D editing software to not only have a theoretical abstract image but rather to model a situation, this software is BLENDER, together with this BLENDER program we needed to have an idea of the characteristics of Venus, for which we resorted to a simulation software which is STELLARIUM, which offered us data in certain specific locations.
Space Agency Data
The data provided by NASA on the characteristics of the planet Venus and travel time were of great help to solve several points for the development of our proposal of this battery capable of reaching new lands with extreme ecosystems, but we must take into account that in the NASA data we did not find concise information on the subject of Siyllium Carbide, we resorted to the use of dialogue platforms with other people interested in this same project so that the resolution of doubts was progressive in terms of the progress of the proposed solution.
The mathematical calculations as such presented a challenge in their deduction, so we only got to present postulant models based on our knowledge and academic background, we have members with great skills who collaborated in the design of a prototype of a 3D probe in BLENDER software so to have the idea of locating the battery in the center of mass of such probe as we found information in the database indicating that the previously submitted probes only overfly the superficeie and do not walk as .
Hackathon Journey
The Space apps challenge helped us to develop new skills and improve the ones we already had by testing all the knowledge we had acquired throughout our lives in our academic and extracurricular training.
The challenge we chose was based on the knowledge base we had about energy storage, as well as the solution to supply electricity in emergency cases caused by catastrophes.
The way we developed a solution was by comparing materials already used by NASA in past missions and also research from companies working in the area of energy storage for their equipment, thanks to this we can have a base and defend our project.
We thank the Microsoft Learns Student Ambassadors and the entire team for contributing their knowledge and persevering despite the difficulties.
References
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/resources/549/energy-storage-technologies-for-future-planetary-science-missions/
https://techport.nasa.gov/view/92914
https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/menu/explore/sp/
https://nasasearch.nasa.gov/search?affiliate=nasa&sort_by=&query=silicon+carbide+processing
https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/mars-rovers/sp/
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/new-process-to-produce-monocrystalline-beta-silicon-carbide
https://www.nasa.gov/exploring-hell-venus-rover-challenge
https://ciencia.nasa.gov/perseverance-celebra-su-primer-aniversario-en-marte#:~:text=Con%20un%20peso%20aproximado%20de,jam%C3%A1s%20haya%20aterrizado%20en%20Marte.
https://www.google.com/url?client=internal-element-cse&cx=009499342769828370748:gf1cq0k4upb&q=https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/system/downloadable_items/159_Technology_Reports_-EE-Report_FINAL_20072.pdf&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwik6MOY18H6AhXcrpUCHebZCuIQFnoECAEQAQ&usg=AOvVaw0GgcPkZXci7q3mcQlwYELr
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