RIVER CLEANING CO. THE TRASHMASTER 7000 A218-4 LAREESA THOMAS EF 152 SEAN CORNELISSEN SPRING 2018 JEREMY LONG SAVANNAH DAVIDSON APRIL 2, 2019
PRODUCT SELECTION & CUSTOMER REQUIREMENT • When looking at overall issues that affect the community, we began talking about the Knoxville community. Bodies of water run and exist all over east Tennessee; however, sometimes they PRODUCT can be seen as an eye sore. SELECTION • So naturally, we looked to water cleanup and potential ways to market to a large audience • Most water cleanup projects are spear headed by nonprofits and volunteers because of the current market is small, so we set our sights on expanding the marketplace with a new product. CUSTOMER • We initially sought to expand the market to average people that REQUIREMENTS own recreational water craft; however, that design was scrapped. Our final customer market has been narrowed to commercial shipping companies that use large watercraft (barges).
CONCEPTUAL DESIGN Intermediate Initial Design Refinements Refinements Final Design Design • The initial design • The first design was • The intermediate • The net was • The final design began as a netlike scrapped because design included a removed because of flushed out the trash boat attachment for the predicted impact gradient net that the drag and risks it removing recreational boats on the environment would lie could create. This mechanism including that extended underneath the boat makes the product a removable bin and • So, we went to a tangentially from the that would filter out hard to implement conveyor belt ran by larger scale: boat small scale pollutants and market. a water wheel. commercial shipping • It would be available (barges) • It would also include • The net would also for average people a mechanism to be difficult to to do their own part remove large trash remove from in river cleanup from the water. underneath and attempts empty.
Removable Water Wheel Trash Bin ACTUAL DESIGN Water Wheel- Movement in water will spin the wheel and move the conveyor belt Removable Trash Bin- The interior bin is removable for ease of emptying and convenience. Conveyor Belt- The conveyor Exterior Bin belt moves the trash from the water into the interior bin Exterior Bin- Attaches to the Conveyor Belt barge but can be removed and Supports transported
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CUSTOMER FEEDBACK & RESULTS Customer Feedback • Tobias Kaplan, Engineer with NAVSEA Carderock Division, Bayview ID • “Your design is excellent for cleaning trash in open water environments. I like that it requires little to no maintenance and no power source of its own. Designing it as you have as a barge that can be pushed along with other barges and do the job self- contained was a great idea.” Results • Our design worked well, considering the materials and tools at our disposal. While the conveyor doesn’t turn perfectly with the water wheel, the design is sound and the concept is good.
COST & TIME ESTIMATES Cost of Prototype ( $45.58) Paint, 12 Gears, 12 Material Cost of 1000 units: Logo, 0.6 $3,302,157.95 Epoxy, 8.78 Wood, 8 Mesh, 4.2 Retail Price for 1 unit: Design Time (48.5) Wood Assembly, 12 $8000 Decoration, 1.5 Conceptualization, 24 Wood Preparation and Finishing, 3 Coveyor Belt Assembly, 8
BRIEF SUMMARY & CONCLUSION Our design is a commercial boat attachment, that would collect trash by a conveyor belt that would be spin by a water wheel. Overall, our project prototype turned out well; however some final adjustments should be made for general production. First, the material of the conveyor belt should be adjusted for ease of movement. The second adjustment that should be lessening the angle of the conveyor belt, so that it is less steep. With the final adjustments, this product would be ready for the market, and ready to make an impact on the water systems that run through and support our communities.
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