RDP students earn recognition for renewable energy engineering technology project
Four Red Deer Polytechnic students have earned provincial recognition for their Capstone engineering technology project.
The nomination as finalist for Capstone Project of the Year was recently announced for the former team of Kyle Salaway, Tyler Podgorenko, Kyle Bennett, and Mathieu Lapointe by The Association of Science and Engineering Technology Professionals of Alberta (ASET).
The project itself was intended to tackle the increasingly critical need for renewable energy resources in the battle against climate change, says ASET. The problem with that is renewable energy resources such as wind and solar are only available at certain times.
The former quartet’s project, which was a micro-scaled Compressed Air Energy Storage System (CAES), explored how to store energy generated by renewable energy resources for time periods of non-generation or when peak demand is in effect.