The Honors Energy track contains the following student teams:
Team CASA - (formerly known as Living Lab Home)
Team CORE - Enable clean, reneable energy for everyone at any time
TeamPLAY (new)
Team RED - Smart Grids - TU/e interactive map and platform
Team SOLID - Enable clean, reneable energy for everyone at any time
Two years ago, Team CASA was founded with the mission to accelerate the energy transition in the built environment. To do this, four key features were set: Comfortable, Affordable, Sustainable Alternative: CASA. And now, two years later, the team has got a building location (Brainport Smart District) and has handed in their permits to the municipality to build the first house: CASA 1.0.
This house will be two floors with a wheelchair accessible apartment on the ground floor and two separate studios on the first floor. On the roof, an Energyroof will be placed that will generate both electricity and hot water. This hot water will be used as the heat source of the heat pump to heat up the Seasonal Thermal Energy Storage (STES) underneath the house in the summer.
This heat will be used again for the house in the winter.
Furthermore, the entire house will be made from either 100% recyclable or biodegradable materials. The structure is made with steel beams with a load-bearing core in the middle of the house, where all the appliances will be placed. This core ensures that the façade does not need to be load-bearing, allowing easy renovation. The house will be assembled during this academic year within 24 hours with the help of prefabrication.
Team CORE is a student team at the Eindhoven University of Technology, currently working on the concept of elementary retraction. This technique will provide us with a chance to create a zero age, in which waste is the raw material of tomorrow.
The technique is based on our own planet. By using the three chemical equilibria; reductor-oxidator, endotherm-exotherm, and acid-base in the right way, it is possible to retrieve the elements in their pure form, from the e-waste that is put in.
The goal of Team RED is to accelerate the Energy Transition by means of an innovation guiding platform. We envision an energy grid that is fair and accessible to everyone, sustainable whilst keeping comfort levels and raises awareness about the origin of the energy sources. By showing people what the impact of innovations could be on the energy grid, we aim to bring diverse perspectives together. In this way, grid operators, energy suppliers, but also professors and consumers can see the implications of a grid decision for themselves as well as for the other stakeholders and an overall optimal scenario can be discussed and developed.
Our team is contributing to this by making an interactive scale model of the TU/e campus, with the goal to create a discussion platform and a simulation model that can show the impact that technologies in several scenarios have on the grid. On the longer term, we are exploring upscaling possibilities of the interactive platform in other contexts as well as creating a living lab energy platform on the university campus.
If you are interested and enthusiastic about our project and want to receive more information please mail to info@teamred.nl and we will send your our newsletters!
TeamPlay
There are a lot of possibilities to increase the effective use of available resources and technologies. One of the reasons these possibilities are not used in all their effectiveness is because society has little awareness of these possibilities. Our aim is to encourage this awareness.
We aim to create a platform that provides users with a clear overview of their effect on the environment, that allows them to compare these effects to others, and that provides users with ways to implement certain changes to their lives to reduce their negative effect on the environment.
Contact: Pamela Schippers
Team SOLID is a multidisciplinary team of students from the Eindhoven University of Technology. We are developing a system that enables sustainable energy storage, based on iron powder, which is one out of the wide range of applications for metal fuels.
The team consists of subteams in technology, business, finance, marketing, and human resources.
As of 2019 SOLID is an official TU/e student team as well.
Interesting article:
TU/e, Team SOLID, the province of North Brabant and Metalot:
Province of Brabant to invest one million euros in 'metal power' - iron powder as a circular energy source.