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Carbon Catcher Design Report
Overview. The design of the overall Carbon Catcher project can be separated into four distinct systems, each of which is assigned a specialized committee. The committee names and responsibilities are listed below:
Air Mover
The overall goal for the Air Mover committee is the design of the turbine assembly. As the overall goal of the project is to collect and separate carbon dioxide from the air, one of the most important parts is to actually get the air to pass through the carbon-catching
membrane. Passive air would not give a significant enough yield rate to make the carbon dioxide collection rate impactful, thus air must be sucked through a vacuum/turbine.
Membrane
The goal of Membrain is to create a membrane that can filter out CO2 through various methods. These methods are limited, due to there being such variety, to certain techniques and membrane material types that have been decided, prior, by the committee. Most membranes will be geared towards utilizing temperature and pressure along with gaseous speed and flow rate. In addition, examining certain treatments, such as regeneration of material, and replacements will be looked into as well, to see how it fares in sustainability.
Carbon Storer
The Carbon Storer committee will design a store and transport system for fluid CO2 after it is extracted from the atmosphere. Primary considerations include geological solutions, cost-effective materials, and analysis methods to improve overall capacity and efficiency. Additionally, the committee will select an environmentally and economically sustainable method of recycling the captured CO2.
PyControl
The PyControl committee will design a series of sensors and actuators, which will primarily support the sequestration and pipeline systems present in the Carbon Storer Committee and direct air capture system in Air Mover. The design can be broken into four control layers: Input/Output, Field Controllers, Data, and Supervisory.
Goal
The overarching goal of Carbon Catcher is to design a cost-effective, scalable atmospheric carbon dioxide removal system that is capable of being deployed in a variety of urban environments and may fit a variety of different customer requirements or requests
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AGRiSPIRE Innovations
OverviewThis report aims to decrease some of the difficulties associated with the practice of vertical farming in addition to providing a uniquely integrated design process. The collaboration of several systems including, an agriculturally inspired farm automation tool, intelligent precision farming practices, a purification and highly developed reverse osmosis process for water purification, and a self-healing concrete solution that will provide seismic resistant structure. Our mechanized farming tool operates on a railing system allowing it to reach all area on a floor to sow seeds, spray pesticides, pull out weeds, and harvest strawberries hands-free. Precision farming is the practice of adjusting crop treatments in order to increase production efficiency. This system stores all factors which significantly affect crop yields and develop an approximation tool to gain a better understanding of these critical factors and crop response. To purify the water that is responsible for the irrigation on all floors a filtration system that uses a Thin Film Composite (TFC) membrane to do reverse osmosis filtration. The building’s design utilizes recycled materials and structured to handle static and dynamic loads on each floor. GoalTo design a system that purifies water and uses eco-friendly fertilizer to support user-controlled mechanized farming practices within a structure that meets the strength and serviceability requirements of an 18 story building. ObjectivesDesign an autonomous agricultural robotic system that is capable of planting strawberry seeds, weed control, spraying pesticide, and harvesting. Create a sustainable, low-cost precision agriculture technique that enables users to interact remotely and make decisions for the vertical farm based on the suggestions created from data collected from low energy sensors. Design a water purification system that is capable of providing enough clean water for irrigation use while keeping the pH level in check and providing liquid fertilizer for the crops to grow. Design a multi-story building that meets both strength and serviceability requirements when subjected to lateral loads and gravity loads. Design PromptIn order to produce high-quality food and feed a growing world population, new methods of sustainable farming must be developed that are designed to increase yields and reduce ecological impact. Unlike traditional cultivation, vertical farming has the potential to reduce the need to create additional farmland and increase the productivity of a farm by a factor of 4 to 6 depending on the crop due to year-round productivity. Our goal will be to establish a robotic-centric approach to agriculture that takes advantage of modernengineering simulations, mathematics, the revolution in sensor technology, controlled environment agriculture, fertigation, and indoor farming techniques to transform modern food production. The spire will have an 18-floor, 256.5 x 114 ft farm located around the UC Irvine campus, and our goal is optimizing it to produce 15,000 tons of food annually. This paper has been peer reviewed by: Mazen Nader Alkhatib, Abdullah Jawhar, Myriam Khalil, Daniela Uriostegui, and Jesus Reyes. Presented at the UCI Engineering Conference, February 16-18, 2019 at University of California Irvine.Peer Reviewers: Mazen Nader Alkhatib, Abdullah Jawhar, Myriam Khalil, Daniela Uriostegui, Jesus Reye
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AGRiSPIRE Innovations
OverviewThis report aims to decrease some of the difficulties associated with the practice of vertical farming in addition to providing a uniquely integrated design process. The collaboration of several systems including, an agriculturally inspired farm automation tool, intelligent precision farming practices, a purification and highly developed reverse osmosis process for water purification, and a self-healing concrete solution that will provide seismic resistant structure. Our mechanized farming tool operates on a railing system allowing it to reach all area on a floor to sow seeds, spray pesticides, pull out weeds, and harvest strawberries hands-free. Precision farming is the practice of adjusting crop treatments in order to increase production efficiency. This system stores all factors which significantly affect crop yields and develop an approximation tool to gain a better understanding of these critical factors and crop response. To purify the water that is responsible for the irrigation on all floors a filtration system that uses a Thin Film Composite (TFC) membrane to do reverse osmosis filtration. The building’s design utilizes recycled materials and structured to handle static and dynamic loads on each floor. GoalTo design a system that purifies water and uses eco-friendly fertilizer to support user-controlled mechanized farming practices within a structure that meets the strength and serviceability requirements of an 18 story building. ObjectivesDesign an autonomous agricultural robotic system that is capable of planting strawberry seeds, weed control, spraying pesticide, and harvesting. Create a sustainable, low-cost precision agriculture technique that enables users to interact remotely and make decisions for the vertical farm based on the suggestions created from data collected from low energy sensors. Design a water purification system that is capable of providing enough clean water for irrigation use while keeping the pH level in check and providing liquid fertilizer for the crops to grow. Design a multi-story building that meets both strength and serviceability requirements when subjected to lateral loads and gravity loads. Design PromptIn order to produce high-quality food and feed a growing world population, new methods of sustainable farming must be developed that are designed to increase yields and reduce ecological impact. Unlike traditional cultivation, vertical farming has the potential to reduce the need to create additional farmland and increase the productivity of a farm by a factor of 4 to 6 depending on the crop due to year-round productivity. Our goal will be to establish a robotic-centric approach to agriculture that takes advantage of modernengineering simulations, mathematics, the revolution in sensor technology, controlled environment agriculture, fertigation, and indoor farming techniques to transform modern food production. The spire will have an 18-floor, 256.5 x 114 ft farm located around the UC Irvine campus, and our goal is optimizing it to produce 15,000 tons of food annually. This paper has been peer reviewed by: Mazen Nader Alkhatib, Abdullah Jawhar, Myriam Khalil, Daniela Uriostegui, and Jesus Reyes. Presented at the UCI Engineering Conference, February 16-18, 2019 at University of California Irvine.Peer Reviewers: Mazen Nader Alkhatib, Abdullah Jawhar, Myriam Khalil, Daniela Uriostegui, Jesus Reye