Our nation has consolidated itself within the clear vitality business and is growing a nationwide vitality coverage geared toward attaining carbon neutrality. On this context, the College of O’Higgins (UOH) by its analysis initiatives is concentrated on contributing to this transition to sustainable vitality sources.
One among these contributions is the undertaking “Renewable Energies for the Manufacturing of Cáhuil salt”, developed by teachers from the UOH and financed by the Innovation Fund for Productiveness of the Regional Authorities of O’Higgins, which seeks to contribute to the rescue of the sector. heritage of the salt mines of the province of Cardenal Caro, by the set up of a sustainable electrothermal microgrid impartial of the central provide.
Daniele Tardani, educational on the UOH Institute of Engineering Sciences and coordinator of the undertaking, factors out that the proposal provides an revolutionary answer primarily based on using non-conventional renewable vitality, aimed on the reactivation of the normal and heritage manufacturing system of the salt mines of Cáhuil. , by the set up of an autonomous and sustainable vitality provide that permits them to cut back their carbon footprint and manufacturing prices.
He provides that the thought is to carry the idea of {an electrical} microgrid to the salt mines within the Cáhuil, Barrancas and La Villa sectors, within the province of Cardenal Caro, “as a way to present them with clear vitality, photo voltaic and wind, that they will use of their manufacturing course of. salt manufacturing and that will probably be autonomous from the central provide, so they won’t have the inconvenience of being left with out vitality resulting from outages that generally happen in winter resulting from rain and dangerous climate.”
For Governor Pablo Silva it is very important succeed on this undertaking, given the potential of replicating it. “Not solely with extra salt producers, but in addition with different sectors within the area. Within the authorities we work on packages for using renewable vitality, such because the photo voltaic homes program for the aged, electrical buses and buses, and due to this fact we search for initiatives with relevance and in that the College of O’Higgins has accompanied us,” he provides.
Likewise, the director of Native Financial Improvement of the Municipality of Pichilemu, Dante Cornejo, was hopeful about what the undertaking might ship to numerous issues in salt manufacturing. “From the municipality we approached the UOH to lift an issue with the administration of the iodine that the salineros have. We have been launched to the educational staff and we started to work on the design of this undertaking, which additionally permits us to get rid of the carbon footprint and make manufacturing within the salt flats extra pleasant,” he factors out.
For the members of the Cáhuil, Barrancas and La Villa salt farmers’ cooperative, the undertaking is a good contribution. “We salt farmers are very distant from the coast and we could have the potential of advertising and marketing salt with decrease manufacturing prices and valuing our product,” mentioned Jaime Drago, consultant of the Cooperative.
The undertaking staff can also be made up of UOH teachers: Domingo Jullian, Claudio Burgos and Laura Becerril; along with the researchers Pablo Valdenegro, Bárbara Bravo, Sebastián Aránguiz and the engineer Mónica Escobar.
Electrical microgrid
At the moment, microgrids are offered as an actual answer to electrical energy technology issues in remoted locations, as happens in lots of rural or lagging areas, being an excellent various for complementary self-generation that reduces dependence on a high-cost centralized electrical service with issues. of gradual reset interruptions. For that reason, the impression of the undertaking entails the event of a replicable pilot in infinite productive and public use contexts, having a excessive diploma of scalability and replicability in O’Higgins and the nation.
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