2025 | Student

MUSE Design Awards Silver Winner

W-S Cooling

Entrant Company

Ming Chi University of Technology

Category

Conceptual Design - Green

Client's Name

Country / Region

Taiwan

High temperatures frequently lead to heat damage in crops, causing an increase in agricultural water demand and hindering the smooth growth of crops. In response, many countries are vigorously promoting green energy development to mitigate climate change. However, the diminishing availability of future land makes the installation of devices increasingly challenging.

W-S Cooling is a PV-Wind hybrid system installed in farms It collects water from the air and sprays it on the farmland to cool it to prevent crops from being damaged by heat.

The device features a wind tunnel hood and an Archimedean spiral fan blade, which not only improves power generation efficiency but also enhances the stability and structural strength of the fan while reducing noise pollution. Surrounding the wind tunnel hood are solar panels and a cleaning system, ensuring regular cleaning of the solar panels to maximize power generation efficiency. The wind guide plate in the wind tunnel cover can guide air into the internal MOFs material to absorb moisture in the air, and use the waste heat of solar energy to heat the MOFs material through the heat pipe to release the moisture. W-S Cooling has an energy storage system that provides electricity to households or farms in the area, forming a new type of agricultural-electricity symbiosis.

Credits

Ming Chi University of Technology
Chen-Yen Tseng
Ming Chi University of Technology
Prof. Kai-Chu Li
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