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Developing Economies
Darick W. LaSelle, Robert Liechty,
Hassan Alzamzam; Robert Foster; Jasmin Dzabic; Nathan Clark
Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Colorado
Denver, CO, USA
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The focal point of this dish sits at 0.125 m. Noting that the
height of this dish is 0.5 m, the focal point is significantly
inside of the dish. This method of heat collecting greatly
simplified the construction of the overall generator. Whereas
a separate structure would have to have been created to accept
the heat from the collector, this simply requires a hole to be
cut to insert the Stirling engine below the dish with only the
Figure 2: Wind Resource for Africa
heat absorber sticking through into the dish, as shown in the
The solution proposed here is to use a pre-manufactured conceptual rendering in Figure 4.
Stirling engine coupled with a permanent-magnet dc engine
and insert it into a parabolic dish that can be built on site with
a variety of materials depending on the locality. This will
serve to significantly reduce the cost of manufacturing and
transportation, as well as provide a method of developing the
knowledge to maintain the generator. This paper will outline
the design of the generator, as well as develop a cost (both
monetary and energy-based) analysis of the generator.
Year 1 Annual
145,858,781 153,495,000
Energy (kWh)
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VIII. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
We would like to gratefully acknowledge Dr. Mark
As an attempt to quantify a manufacturing cost, this Golkowski, Dr. Keith Malmedal, and Dr. Jae-Do Park for
analysis takes the cost of the Stirling engine proposed
their useful conversations and help in reviewing our
(~$300) and adds it to a common 1 [m] wide RF Antennae
published work. We would additionally like thank to the
Dish (-$100). Using earlier assumptions (1000 W/m 2), this
program advisors for this project, Robert Grabbe and Brian
design would output approximately 295 W.
EROI would be $1.36/Wp. $2.5/Wp is considered Atkinson, for their guidance and support.
economically viable [6]. A comparable PV panel on the
market today costs $400 and generates 250 W, giving an
EROI of $1.60/Wp [17], making the solar Stirling a much
better option.
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