Synergistic Design of Renewable Energy and Waste Management through Urban Drainage Systems

This paper proposes a dual-pathway urban-drainage system, which includes waste interception, micro-hydropower generation and an AI lighting application, as all of these features were validated using a prototype installation. This concept is scaled up to field scale by a physics based scale-up model based on the actual Dhaka drainage data to provide a renewable energy pathway that is affordable and requires minimal maintenance for waste-constrained, fast urbanizing cities.