Current Design

Proposed Four Mile long Site Plan Layout in San Luis, Yuma County, Arizona

Alternate ECCS location shown below

An ECCS could be placed at this location on Tohono O'odham tribal land to...

Provide an additional source of clean, renewable electrical power, and desperately needed fresh water, food, and new employment opportunities to the impoverished indigenous communities located on Tohono O'odham tribal land.

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Overall Current Design (in progress)

Sakshi Panchal, Enakshi Sarkar, and Abdulrahman Alfailakawi have been responsible for producing 3D modeling files for the project. This is a representation of the current overall design. These pictures show some of the structures and transformative components planned for the existing border wall and test bed.

Border Wall modernized with thermal energy capture & conversion system (in progress)

Transfigured Structure Original Structure

This section shows the primary air collection vents located on the linear glazed wall at the air collection pipe and their supports. These vents facilitate the transfer of the vertical heated air flow column into the horizontal collection and transfer pipes. The main top pipe is responsible for transferring the captured heated air to thermal storage, which can be drawn into each station as needed.

Materials and Dimensions

Border Wall Isometric View

Border Wall Back View

Border Wall Front View

Border Wall Top View

Border Wall Top Pipe view

Border Wall Bracing Assembly (in progress)

Cross Bar Extension

Pipe Brace

Footing

Cross Bar Assembly

Footing Assembly

Proprietary Glazing System Attachment

Clear glazing will be attached on both sides of the recently constructed border separation structure. The glazing will be open at the very bottom to allow for natural air flow into and around the spaces between the darkened steel columns. A heated vertical air column will now be captured, and its heat energy transferred to thermal storage, thus wasted radiant heat is now captured, converted to electrical power and utilized, no longer being wasted or emitted into the surrounding environment at night.

Energy Conversion Station (ECS) #1,

Typical Water Distillation Station Design

This station is solely dedicated to water distillation using only solar energy and water. This station will produce, collect, and transfer thousands of gallons of pure distilled water that will primarily be used to generate electrical power, but it will also be utilized in other stations, and for human consumption.

Water Distillation Isometric View

Proposed Water Distillation Station Conceptual Sections

Energy Conversion Station (ECS) #2,

Typical Electrical Power Generation Station (Design in progress)

This station contains boilers and turbines. The boilers are going will utilize the heated air in combination with altered atmospheric pressures to boil the distilled water obtained from the previous water distillation station in order to produce high pressurized steam. In order to increase the velocity of the high pressurized steam, a venturi tunnel will be used. Increasing the velocity of the high pressurized steam will allow the turbine to generate more mechanical energy in the shaft, thereby increasing the amount of electrical energy generated by the stator.; thus, producing several megawatts of electrical power.

Energy Generation Isometric View

Energy Generation Front View

Energy Generation Side View

Energy Generation Top View

Venturi Tunnel Isometric View

Turbine (Rotor, Shaft and Stator) Isometric View

Energy Conversion Station (ECS) #3,

Typical Aquaponics Station (Design in progress)

This station will be dedicated to the raising of fish, other edible organic proteins, the collection of waste material, and the production of nitrogen fertilizer. Its primary function is to consistently produce and supply a sustainable sources of new food proteins.

A water tank will act as a reservoir for the water from the distillation station. A pump will be used to circulate the water across sites like the plant beds and soil beds. The oxygenation of water will be mostly enabled by the circulation. An oxygen tank might be added, if needed. The water is supplied to the respective sites from an elevation. The used water is collected on the troughs shown below in the aquaponics design. Collected purified and treated water will either re-enter the circulating stream, or be removed as the discharge stream, depending on the pH of the circulating stream. A combination of pipes in various alignments will facilitate the water supply to the sites. A mechanical filter or biofilter and UV light will be used to eliminate potential microbial contaminants.