Innovators
Students build an environmentally friendly waste plant that produces energy
Students Moza (right), Rayan and Ahmed with supervisor Yasser Abdul Muttalib after the completion of the project at the Wasit Youth Center in Sharjah. From the source
Three Emirati students were able to complete a model of an environmentally friendly waste station that can produce energy, in order to benefit from renewable energy, based on the element hydrogen.
The project supervisor, Yasser Mohammed Abdul Muttalib, told Emirates Today: "The team that completed the model consists of students Ahmed Al-Jasmi, Moza Al-Mazrouei and Rayan Al-Mazmi from the Wasit Youth Center in Sharjah."
He added that the team members called it "the environmentally friendly waste plants project" and participated in the science, technology and innovation festival organized by the Ministry of Education recently.
He explained the idea of the project as generating energy by converting the chemical energy of hydrogen into mechanical energy, either by reacting hydrogen with oxygen in the hydrogen cell or by burning hydrogen in an internal combustion engine.
He stated that hydrogen energy can be relied upon as a suitable technological option in the context of sustainable development, where hydrogen is the most abundant chemical component in the universe, and then the current fuel can be replaced by alternative fuels "hydrogen".
He pointed out that the importance of the project, which took the team five months to complete, lies in the collected data, and the possibility of designing a website to help collect plastic waste through incentives for the public, and marketing recycled plastic products.
The project aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions resulting from burning fuel in additional and insignificant commutes, and to utilize solar energy to save energy to operate the waste plant.