Students of GIK Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology, Abdul Moeed Niazi, Khurram Chohan, M. Junaid and Waleed Saqib have developed an electric thermostat for geysers under the supervision of Dr M Junaid Mughal, Associate Professor, Department of Electronic Engineering GIKI.
The conventional geysers in most of the houses are used for hot water supply. These geysers are quite common and there is no possibility that they will become obsolete in the next 10 to 15 years. While they supply hot water, a large amount of energy is lost in heating water when hot water is not required by the user. The purpose of the project is to design an electric thermostat for household geysers in order to prevent energy loss. This project serves as a substitute to the old mechanical thermostats which are controlled manually and their mechanism is responsible for the loss of a large amount of heat energy.
The water is heated only when it is required by the user while the geyser remains off when hot water is not required. The timing to turn the geyser on and off is predefined by the user and a separate control panel is provided to the user for altering these timings. The user is also provided with the option of adjusting the temperature of the hot water required. Furthermore, the currently used pilot system is replaced with a spark-ignition system which will help save a lot of energy which is wasted due to the continuous burning of the pilot when the geyser is in the stand-by mode and not being used to heat the water. This electric thermostat is completely battery operated, so it can work efficiently even in the current scenario of electricity load shedding in our country.
The rector of GIK Institute has offered the students of the group who developed this product to implement it on trial basis in the institute so that this project can also be commercialised.
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