Applied Design

Given that our system has been proved to work with repeatability and its intrinsic characteristics for massive application, we think our project is a successful applied design. Here, we summarize the qualification and merits of our design in the following figure. Meanwhile, we also point out the lack of our design and some future works that are needed to improve our Solar Hunter.

Although our system has been proved to work better than previous ones with a much lower concentration of nanomaterial (1mg TiO2 in the reference one compared to 7.72*10^-9 M CdS)as ours, we still think our system can be optimized further.

Look at the Figure3 and 4, the two pictures presenting the production of hydrogen using systems with biofilm or without biofilm respectively, you will see that the efficiency with the biofilm microsphere is not as high as the freely-flowing NR system. The reason might lie in the size of our microsphere, which is 25 um in diameter. Since the normal size of bacteria is 2 um, we therefore think spheres of bigger sizes should lead to a higher efficiency. However, due to logistic matters, we did not obtain any spheres of sizes other than 25nm. We will obtain different sizes in the near future and will update our data. Stay tuned, or you may want to join us in this project as well: Contact us: zhongchao@shanghaitech.edu.cn Investor are also welcome.

Team:ShanghaitechChina/Design

Applied Design

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