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Hyperloop UPV
DescriptionTop Design Concept Award and Propulsion/Compression Subsystem Technical Excellence Award
Sponsored byAltran
LocationHawthrone, California
CountrySpain
Hosted bySpaceX | Elon Musk
Formerly calledHyperloop Makers UPV
Websitehyperloopupv.com

Hyperloop UPV (a.k.a. Hyperloop Makers UPV) is a team of students from the Universitat Politècnica de València (Valencia, Spain) with the aim of designing a Hyperloop transportation system.

The initial team in Design Weekend was composed of five students from the student community Makers UPV: Ángel Benedicto, Daniel Orient, David Pistoni, Germán Torres and Juan Vicén, together with advisor Vicente Dolz, assistant Professor at CMT- Motores Térmicos,[1] Universitat Politècnica de València. They were awarded Top Design Concept and Propulsion/Compression Subsystem Technical Excellence Award[2] at SpaceX's Design Weekend, the first phase of the Hyperloop Pod Competition 1 held in Texas on January 2016.

The team was expanded to more than 30 students in September 2016 in order to build a full-size prototype for SpaceX's Pod Competition,[3] and in April 2017 the team was selected by SpaceX to participate in the Hyperloop Pod Competition 2, which was held in Los Angeles days 25–27 August 2017 in collaboration with Purdue University[4][5], becoming the world's first transatlantic student collaboration in the history of the development of the Hyperloop. They got to be amongst the best 10 teams of the world in the Hyperloop Pod Competition 2. Nowadays, being a team of more than 40 people and with the support of lots of institutions and enterprises, the team is designing an improved prototype with the aim of winning the Hyperloop Pod Competition 3, scheduled in summer 2018[6].

History

The project has its origins in August, 2015, when a team of 5 students of the Makers Community of the Polytechnical University of Valencia decided to take part in a competition organized by Elon Musk, the Hyperloop Design Weekend. This decision was taken as a result of a piece of news that one of them read, in which was said that with Hyperloop, airplanes would be useless for medium-range journeys (about 600 km) and all the universities worldwide were invited to participate in this competition in order to make Hyperloop a reality. The Hyperloop Makers UPV team was created in August 2015 when Daniel Orient, aerospace engineering student, read in a piece of news that with Hyperloop, airplanes would be useless for medium-range journeys (about 600 km). When he discovered that Elon Musk was organising a contest to make Hyperloop a reality and that it was open-source, he decided to ask for help to Makers UPV, a local community of makers from Valencia, Spain. That's when Ángel Benedicto, David Pistoni, Germán Torres and Juan Vicén decided to take part on the project and build together their own Hyperloop concept.

The team was selected to take part on the contest by SpaceX, and during this time until the competition was held, in January, 2016, these five UPV students worked very hard to write the "Hyperloop Makers UPV Technical Report"[7], a scientific report that groups all the specifications and the design of its concept of Hyperloop. Once the competition arrived, thanks to the support given by the UPV, the team had the opportunity to travel to Texas and compete against the best universities of the world. Hyperloop UPV obtained Top Design Concept Award and Propulsion/Compression Subsystem Technical Excellence Award[8]. Time after the competition, the team gained international attention worldwide because they were the smallest team and they obtained the highest "awards-to-team size" ratio, with 2 awards for a team of 5 students plus their university advisor[9][10][11][12]. All these leads to a huge media impact, appearing on Spanish TV[13][14] and radio shows[15][16][17] besides the talks they performed through the whole Peninsula[18][19][20].

A few months later, in September, 2016, after obtaining the support of lots of institutions and companies (ISTOBAL[21][22][23], Nagares S.A.[24] a Spanish company focused on research, development, manufacturing and sales of electronic systems mainly for the automotive sector.[25][26], Marca España.[27]), the team grew until being more than 30 members.[3]

Technology

The Hyperloop UPV concept[7] is a levitating rail-free pod design. Using magnetic repulsion and air cushioning for levitation is expensive and can produce unpredictable forces. The pod is equipped with a hybrid system of permanent magnets and electromagnet units, being able to control lift, so it can hover from the top of the tube. That way, the pod doesn't need so much electricity to be lifted by itself. Propulsion is obtained through expansion of the air with a nozzle, located at the rear of the pod, achieving speeds of up to 1000 km/h. The turbine recovers energy from the flow allowing a more efficient journey. This clean tube layout is said to cut costs in up to 30% of the whole Hyperloop project (about 180m USD) and the possibility to comfortably fit more passengers.[28]

The levitation system has been validated with a real model of a magnetic levitator from the Institute of Automatic Systems (ISA)[29] available at the University.

References

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  2. ^ "Awards". hyperloop.tamu.edu. Retrieved 2016-08-10.
  3. ^ a b "El tren bala valenciano cobra vida". Las Provincias (in European Spanish). 2016-10-08. Retrieved 2016-12-12.
  4. ^ "Atlantic II". Noticias UPV (in Spanish). 2017-05-05. Retrieved 2017-12-11. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  5. ^ "Purdue Hyperloop collaborates with university in Spain to revolutionize transportation". Purdue University. 2017-07-06. Retrieved 2017-12-11. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  6. ^ http://www.spacex.com/hyperloop
  7. ^ a b "Hyperloop Makers UPV Team - Technical Report". Retrieved 2016-08-11.
  8. ^ "Awards". hyperloop.tamu.edu. Retrieved 2016-08-11.
  9. ^ "A toda velocidad". Retrieved 2016-08-11.
  10. ^ BBVA (2016-02-25). "Hyperloop: the fifth mode of transportation, capable of travelling at the speed of sound - BBVA NEWS". Retrieved 2016-08-11.
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  12. ^ "The future of sustainable transport is already here with the Hyperloop!! – Fundacion Comunidad Valenciana – Region Europea". www.climatekic-spain.org. Retrieved 2016-08-11.
  13. ^ Oficiorama - Programa 12, Oficiorama - RTVE.es A la Carta (in European Spanish), 2016-04-30, retrieved 2016-08-11
  14. ^ Makers UPV (2016-05-25), Hyperloop UPV - Antena 3 Noticias [05/02/2016], retrieved 2016-08-11
  15. ^ "Ya Veremos | 21/01/2016". yaveremosm80.com. Retrieved 2016-08-11.
  16. ^ "1ª Hora | Programa La Noche de COPE | #LaNocheAPie". iVoox. Retrieved 2016-08-11.
  17. ^ "Pulso Empresarial con José Luis Pichardo - 2 de Junio de 2016 en mp3 (subido 02/06 a las 23:12:37) 59:59 - iVoox". m.ivoox.com. Retrieved 2016-08-11.
  18. ^ Martí, Anna (2016-02-05). ""Si construyes has de ir poco a poco, pero si piensas puedes ir directamente al final", entrevista al Hyperloop UPV Team". Retrieved 2016-08-11.
  19. ^ TEDx Talks (2016-05-25), Hyperloop: From Valencia to the World | Universitat Politecnica Valencia | TEDxBerkleeValencia, retrieved 2016-08-11
  20. ^ Ciencias, Ciudad de las Artes y las. "Actividades | Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias". www.cac.es. Retrieved 2016-08-11.
  21. ^ "ISTOBAL supports young people's talent - Istobal USA". 2016-07-14. Retrieved 2016-08-11.
  22. ^ "ISTOBAL apoya a HyperloopUPV". Retrieved 2016-08-11.
  23. ^ "ISTOBAL se sube al tren del talento joven - Istobal" (in European Spanish). 2016-07-14. Retrieved 2016-08-11.
  24. ^ "Nagares, S.A." www.nagares.es. Retrieved 2016-08-18.
  25. ^ "NAGARES SA apoya a HyperloopUPV". Retrieved 2016-08-11.
  26. ^ "Grupo Nagares: El Grupo Nagares apoya al equipo Hyperloop Makers UPV para la presentación en Estados Unidos del demostrador del tren del futuro / Nagares Group supports Hyperloop Makers UPV team on their presentation about the train of the future demonstrator in the United States". gruponagares.blogspot.com.es. Retrieved 2016-08-11.
  27. ^ "Marca España | Hyperloop, el tren supersónico con diseño español". marcaespana.es. Retrieved 2016-08-11.
  28. ^ Makers UPV (2016-01-28), Hyperloop Makers UPV Team, retrieved 2016-08-11
  29. ^ "Dept. of Systems Engineering and Control: UPV". www.upv.es. Retrieved 2016-08-18.
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