RAPID: Wind Energy and Rainwater Harvesting Solutions for Sustainable Recovery of Haiti

RAPID：风能和雨水收集解决方案促进海地可持续恢复

• 批准号: 1036415
• 负责人: Catherine Peters
• 金额: $ 10.2万
• 依托单位: Princeton University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-05-01 至 2013-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1036415&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RAPID; Wind; Energy; Rainwater; Harvesting

Following the earthquake of January 12, 2010, two areas of importance for RAPID response are water and energy. Haiti is a country with abundant rainfall but inadequate water and sanitation systems, which now have been largely demolished by the earthquake. Furthermore, Haiti, even before the earthquake, had extremely low electric power production and distribution. To address these two key areas of need, two novel technologies will be deployed and tested. For water collection and treatment, a system has been designed for combined rainwater harvesting and treatment using porous clay ceramics. In addition to deploying and demonstrating this system in Jacmel, its effectiveness in terms of capacity, treatment rate, and resulting water quality will be tested. For renewable energy production, a novel 5 kW wind turbine designed specifically for deployment in a disaster relief scenario will be deployed, demonstrated, and tested. Additionally, a meteorological measurement station to characterize wind resources at the Jacmel location will be set up. Finally, fine resolution numerical atmospheric simulations will be conducted, using the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model to map the wind resources and potential wind turbine placement sites around Port-au-Prince and other sites in Haiti. From the deployment of these two novel devices, there will be numerous "lessons learned" about the ease of deployment in a disaster, their efficiency of operation, and their effectiveness and reliability. These findings are anticipated to be translatable to other developing world locations. The disaster in Haiti presents a time sensitive opportunity to advance technologies for built better sustainable response and reconstruction in the developing world.Bruce HamiltonProgram DirectorEnvironmental Sustainability3/26/10

在2010年1月12日地震之后，快速反应的两个重要领域是水和能源。 海地是一个降雨量丰富的国家，但水和卫生系统不足，现在已被地震拆除。 此外，海地甚至在地震之前就具有极低的电力生产和分配。 为了满足这两个重要的需求领域，将部署和测试两种新技术。 为了进行水收集和处理，已经设计了一种用于使用多孔粘土陶瓷的雨水收集和处理的系统。 除了在雅克梅尔部署和演示该系统外，还将测试其在容量，治疗率和产生的水质方面的有效性。对于可再生能源生产，将在救灾场景中专门设计专门为部署而设计的新型风力涡轮机进行部署，演示和测试。此外，还将建立一个气象测量站来表征雅克梅尔位置的风力资源。最后，将使用天气研究和预测模型（WRF）模型进行精细的分辨率数值大气模拟，以绘制海地港口港口和其他地点周围的风力涡轮机位置。 从部署这两个新型设备，将有许多关于灾难中的部署，运营效率以及其有效性和可靠性的“经验教训”。 这些发现预计可以翻译成其他发展中国家的地点。海地的灾难提供了一个时间敏感的机会，可以推进发展中国家建立更好的可持续响应和重建技术的技术。