Design and development of an integrated compounded water cleaning machine

Abstract

The objective of the research is to design an environmental friendly lake or river cruise cum cleaning vessel for compounded waters such as lakes, ponds, huge tanks or water retaining structures, dams, and shallow stagnant seas. It is designed in such a wav that the vessel floats on the water surface while carrying out the cleaning process. The cruise vessel is equipped with the telescopic retractable suction mouth which is mounted to an anti-clog sludge pump that could be lowered down or raised up in order to adjust the level of cleaning trunk's suction mouth so that the suction mouth is just about 2 to 3 inch above the level of water bed. The pump suction mouth is coupled to a comminutor blade in order to cut and reduce the sire of the solid entering the pump. The cruise vessel is either remotely controlled by the GPS (Global Positioning System) or driven by a wireless radio control maneuvered in the compounded water by programming its path in a centralized computer based control station. The path of traveling of the cruise vessel is set by mean of the programmable control device to suit with the shape of the compounded water or water tank to be treated. The cleaning process comprises of comminution, aeration anal filtration in order to reduce the level of Biological Oxygen Demand, (B0D5) and the Suspended Solid, (SS) concentration.