Educando para a sustentabilidade: coletores solares como alternativa de energia nas casas de estudante da UFSM

Abstract

This paper proposes a feasibility study for installation of a solar collector system in the new building block attached to the 34 student´s house in order to heat the bath water of the students who will inhabit this building. As an incentive for implementation of environmental education through the use of a form of renewable energy and sustainable, it was a project by calculating the number of collectors to be used to replace the use of electric showers in it. It looks at the sun as an energy source and its interaction with the Earth. It is an energy balance of the current reality and the Brazilian state and district of Rio Grande do Sul focusing on the use, or not, the solar collector. Place the functioning of the ways of using energy from the sun due to unavailability of the manufacturing system and practice of environmental education, it was a survey of students who have UFSM benefit socio-economic status, living at house of the university student and will be the beneficiaries of this project. We sought to know the opinion of students on environmental education, economic use of energy, the use of renewable energy and sustainable, what their vision, as students UFSM, the way the university approaches the subject and also stood up personal information that will be useful not only to calculate the theoretical energy gain in the deployment and use of the system, but also when the assembly and operation of the equipment. It was performed statistical analysis of the research, through tables and graphs.