Proponents

Amar, Geanyl O.

Ebita, Akeira Leanne M.

Ebita, Zavier M.

Household Power Generation System Utilized by Recycled Greywater and Rainwater

Harvesting

Water in households is not only limited to clean drinking water – known as potable
water. There are sources of water that have been left out, and a large amount of these water
sources used in the average home is lost as wastewater. The wastewater from baths,
showers, washing machines, dishwashers, and sinks fits somewhere in-between, and this is
referred to as greywater, which typically makes up between 50-80% of the household’s
wastewater.

The Philippines is a tropical country with rain falling almost half of the year. Rainwater
is not only useful in wetting lands, cultivate household plants, recreational use, but there is
more of rainwater that can make use of, ideas and innovative ways to utilize it is a way to
benefit from it.

If both water sources can be recycled and utilize, an innovative modular design for
typical households converting water into a functional form of energy.

The study aims to design and fabricate a small-scale turbine to generate power stored
on a battery. A system that collects Greywater and Rainwater from households then releases
it to a small-scale turbine in an efficient fluid flow. The concept is storing the said water sources
in a tank controlled by a float valve that will determine the release of water to promote the
efficiency of flow. The water flow will then power the turbine connected to the generator,
battery storage; the electricity captured can be used for household devices and some sorts of
appliances.

An increase in population will also result in an increase in energy consumption.

Alternative energy resources that will promote clean energy comes from natural sources or
processes that are replenished. The innovation of less-expensive ways to capture energies is
becoming a more critical power source; this proposal will help urbanized households make
use of wasted energy sources and compensate for the growing demands of energy use.