Illinois Institute of Technology, 1998 - $18,000
This E-Team originated in the NCIIA-funded course,
Invention Project. The team is designing a refrigeration system that uses heat sources to create cooling.
The refrigeration system will be marketed to developing communities where electricity is scarce. Industrialization goes hand-in-hand with the spread of refrigeration, as it creates a way of storing and transporting food. Heat-driven refrigeration systems have unique capabilities. They are capable of using
waste heat from a power plant, an industrial process, or an agricultural process to provide cooling at little extra cost, and can also use
solar power or energy produced by low-grade fuel.
