Design and Simulation of a Small-Scale, Power-Generating Device by Carbon Sequestration

Abstract

Demand for energy resources keeps increasing each year because of the rapid population growth and humans spend a tremendous amount of it without knowing that these energy resources come from fossil fuels that can affect our environment by burning and converting them to energy. Carbon dioxide is one of the highest contributors to global warming over the past century and excess carbon dioxide comes from deforestation, emission from subsurface reservoirs, and burning of fossil fuels. Due to the increase of industrial activity, the atmospheric temperature of the earth also increased, and it will result in global warming. One solution to mitigate this problem is to have an environment-friendly device that can generate electricity by extracting carbon dioxide from the air. This study aims to design, simulation and test a small-scale power generating device by carbon sequestration. The design and simulation of the device were done through Autodesk Fusion 360, Vue, Vuetify, and Amazon Web Services. The particulate matter, humidity ratio, and carbon dioxide concentration are input parameters for this study to simulate the power output of the device after carbon dioxide was captured. Considering the effect of the input parameter on the expected power output, which is based on a theoretical value of 2.9784 Ah, two simulation tests were done where test 2 had humidified air as an input. It produces more power output compared to the theoretical value having atmospheric air as an input. Test 2 has more power output results having a humidified air as input while having more carbon dioxide concentration as well indicating the simulation effectiveness based on Coulomb’s Law.