IHYA Improve Hydraulic Yields in Agriculture
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<strong>Water scarcity overview :</strong></p>
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Maybe you heard <strong>4 billions people</strong> face at least one month blue <strong>water scarcity</strong> per year and <strong>500 millions</strong> are facing severe water scarcity <strong>during all the year</strong>.</p>
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Today two kind of solution exist : </p>
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- Retention basin or 1bn $ desalination plant : efficient but <strong>highly capital intensive </strong><strong> not affordable for developed countries or individuals. </strong></p>
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- Low cost, low tech solution (such as simple solar still) but <strong>not efficient enough to be sustainable</strong></p>
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In front of this challenge we are proud to introduce you <strong>IHYA :</strong></p>
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<strong>the mainstream, open source, fresh water technology :</strong></p>
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<strong>IHYA</strong> is a multi effect distillation unit with <strong>two </strong>majors <strong>innovations </strong>: </p>
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- Use of solar energy to power the unit</p>
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- A smart thermal exchanger optimizing solar energy transfer throughout the day.</p>
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- A vacuum room to allow low temperature evaporation.</p>
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And <strong>that's why </strong></p>
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<strong>- IHYA</strong> is as big as a Vespa.</p>
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<strong>- IHYA</strong> uses only solar energy.</p>
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<strong>- IHYA </strong>is modular. </p>
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<strong>- IHYA </strong>is innovative. We like to repeat it ^^.</p>
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<strong>- IHYA</strong> is afordable for developping countries</p>
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Those innovations will allow farmer and individual of developping countries to rely on themselves for water production. </p>
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<u><strong>Our goal is to develop the technology and, when it is going to be mature, to release it for free We belive that this solution has the potential to help a lot of people and could be further optimized by the help of specialist from all over the world.</strong></u></p>
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Today the following steps has been completed :</p>
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- design of the solar collector, exchanger and pumping system (on paper everything is fine)</p>
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- validation of technical solution for low cost prototyping (and production ?)</p>
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We need now to investigate the following points :</p>
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- validation of design by performance testing</p>
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- industrialization of the final solution</p>
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<strong>IHYA team :</strong></p>
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-Karim is a O&G Process and Safety Engineer.</p>
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-Wajih is an operational research engineer </p>
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- PIE (Prototype Initial d'essai) which leaked quite a lot :D.</p>
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You already had the chance to meet PIE :). </p>
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Here is another picture.</p>
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<strong>PIE profile picture :</strong></p>
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The first prototype was made of wood and steel plate hand crafted using classical tools. Not enough precise to avoid the multiple leakage. We abandon it to a more precise solution.</p>
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Look how PIE is cute with his green boxes from the famous Swedish company ^^.</p>
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<strong>PIE II PROFILE PICTURE :</strong></p>
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Good looking , isn't it !!!</p>
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The second prototype has been manufactured with a laser cutting machine using plexiglass plate, rubber seal and copper connector. We managed to avoid leakage, we can now start to test the physical behaviour.</p>
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<strong>Next step PIE III :</strong></p>
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Building PIE and PIE II improved our know how. It also opened our eyes on improvements.</p>
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We can now have a better estimate of prototyping cost for the next phase :</p>
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- vacuum pump 100-300 €</p>
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- gasket and plexiglas 0-200 €</p>
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- electronic control unit 200-400 €</p>
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- solar collector 200 - 400 €</p>
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This has a cost and we budgeted 500 € as a minimal requirement for PIE III.</p>
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<strong>After PIE III :</strong></p>
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Guys please cross your fingers and hope PIE III will rock.</p>
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It will be an important step in the IHYA project and open new horizons.</p>
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Why not introducing IHYA to potential first users if we collect <strong>>500 €.</strong></p>
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