2025 WERC Enviornmental Engineering Competition
Oct. 2024 - Apr. 2025
A proof-of-concept solution to stabilize grid operations using green hydrogen technology.
Project Overview
A hydrogen-based energy management system that integrates solar and fuel cells to transform intermittent renewable energy into a stable, dispatchable power source.
What I Did
- Collaborated with a multi-disciplinary team of 8 engineering students for the 2025 WERC Environmental Design Contest, winning first place by researching a DERMS solution that integrates solar power and hydrogen fuel cells
- Implemented a bench-scale by using Arduino microcontroller to monitor and control peripheral devices
- Designed Python algorithm to simulate solution on real data, demonstrating stable energy output and cost savings
- Published official IEEE paper documenting implementation and analysis of the bench-scale and algorithm