Renewable Energy Education Set
Modular experiment set designed to demonstrate the workings of a complete clean energy technology system on a miniature scale.
- Small-scale wind turbine, solar cell, fuel cells and loads
- Enough hardware, software, and curriculum for 4-5 students to share
- Recommended age groups- K 6-12
- Contains enough curriculum content to run 40 hours of classroom activities.
<b>Kit Contents:</b>
- Wind turbine body
- Rotor head for profiled blades
- 9 profiled blades for turbine
- Rotor head adapter for sheet blades
- 3 polypropylene sheet blades for turbine
- Rotor unlocking tool
- Turbine Support base
- Aluminum wind turbine post
- PEM Electrolyzer
- PEM Electrolyzer base
- PEM Fuel cell
- PEM Fuel cell base
- Hydrogen tank
- Oxygen tank
- Inner Gas containers
- Circuit board module base
- 100 ohm Variable Resistor module
- 1 Watt Solar panel
- Adaptors, tubing clincher & purging valve
- Assembly instructions
- CD with curriculum manuals
- Water/gas tank module base
- Flexible 2mm banana connecting leads
- Transparent silicon tubing
- Plastic plug pins for electrolyzer
- Battery pack with connecting leads
- Syringe
- Motor and fan module base
- Propeller blade
- Small car wheel
- LED module base
<b>Hydrogen Experiments:</b>
1. Electrolysis mode generating hydrogen and oxygen from water
2. Fuel Cell mode generating electricity from hydrogen and oxygen
3. Determining the minimum voltage for water decomposition
4. Polarization states for hydrogen fuel cells
<b>Solar Energy Experiments:</b>
1. The Effect of Heat on Solar Panels
2. The Effect of Shade on Solar Panels
3. The Effect of Tilt Angle on Solar Panels
4. Finding the Solar Panel’s Maximum Power Point
<b>Wind Energy Experiments:</b>
1. How many blades are best - 1, 2, 3 ... more?
2. Using three different curved blade shapes
3. Using blades you make yourself
4. Turbine efficiencies
5. Measuring RPM
6. Tuning for maximum power
7. How blade angle or pitch affects output power
8. How to generate hydrogen
