KOCAELİ (AA) – CEM ALİ KUŞ – Vocational high school students in Kocaeli developed a mobile solar energy station to provide long-term electricity during outages that may occur in cases of natural disasters such as earthquakes. Steel Exporters’ Association Ali Nuri Çolakoğlu Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School students, under the coordination of their teachers, prepared a project to continue the energy flow, especially in disaster and crisis situations.
Students started their studies with a grant support of 450 thousand lira provided by the Gebze Chamber of Commerce within the scope of the Vocational Education Development Project carried out in cooperation with the District Directorate of National Education. 20 teachers and 100 students who participated in the studies developed a mobile solar energy station in the school’s open-air workshop in approximately 5 months.
The station, which determines the angular position of the sun by using latitude and longitude information through satellites and works on the principle of energy storage, offers the opportunity to use it in different areas such as electric vehicle charging, camps, outdoor activities, agriculture and animal husbandry, especially in natural disaster areas. The station can store daily energy so that an electric vehicle can travel 100 kilometers or the electricity needs of 4 houses can be met.
– It can be used in any region where electricity is needed. Project coordinator, Renewable Energy Technologies Field teacher Saim Yıldız, told the AA correspondent that such systems are lifesaving in disaster situations where there may be a shortage of electricity. Yıldız mentioned that the portable station can be used in various areas and continued as follows: We have a 15 kilowatt storage system consisting of lithium batteries.
To ensure that the energy obtained during the day can be used in the evening. We also have a vehicle charging station for electric vehicles. You can also use it in agricultural areas where there is no electricity. We tried to make something compact that could be used wherever electricity is needed. Stating that they provide more energy production thanks to the solar tracking system, Yıldız said, “They can produce an average of 18 kilowatts of electricity per day.
Our station became the center of attention. Several companies doing similar work requested to work together for their products that do not have a tracking system but only a storage system. We have contacted them and we will see if we can cooperate in the future. he said. – The project added experience to me. 12th grade student Mustafa Yiğit Karabiber stated that the station has the capacity to charge the devices used in search and rescue operations and explained that they achieved 100 percent efficiency thanks to the panels that follow the sun.
Stating that the project added experience to him, Karabiber said, “I think I can be even more productive in business life when I work in the development part of such a project. We receive latitude and longitude information from 12 satellites for the movement of our solar panels. We ensure the orientation of our panels with our 4 motors. I took an active role in the control and command part of the project. he said.
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