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Tan Kok Keong 2018 - 2019
River Cleaner 2.0 Industrial Design Design for environment issue. Final Year Project OCT 2018 - MAY 2019
Designer / Tan Kok Keong Mentor / Chen, Wen-Yin Hsieh, Ting-Shin Award/
Taipei International Design Award - Gold Award Flash Point Design Award - Finalist Golden Pin Concept Award - Finalist Young Pin Design Award - Sustainable Design Top 5
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River Cleaner, make the world cleaner than w
we found it.
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River Cleaner 01-1 Background Understanding
Plastic production has increased 20 times since 1964, reaching 350 million metric tonnes (MMT) in 2018. Although plastic recycling overtook landfill in recent years, however the recycled rate is less than 10% of the production.
01-2 Data Collection
BIRD DIGESTS PLASTIC
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HARM AQUATIC LIFES
MAN DIGESTS PLASTIC
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Europe
18.5%
2.6% China 3.9% Japan, 16.8% Rest of Asia
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River Cleaner 02-1 Problem Analyse 02-2 Main Causes Data Collection
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TOP 10 PLASTIC DOMESTIS WASTE IN WATER 2.41M
Cigarette Butts
0.74M
Other Plastic Bags
1.74M
Food Wrappers
0.64M
Straws
1.57M
Plastic Beverage Bottle
0.63M
Plastic Take Away Containers
1.09M
0.76M
Plastic Beverage Caps Plastic Grocery Bags
0.62M
Plastic Lids
0.58M
Foam Take Away Containers Data Source: Aquarium of the Pacific, PlasticsEurope 2019
Domestic waste from all over the world is entering our water bodies everyday and make severe pollution.
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03 PROJECT
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LIFE SPANS OF PLASTIC WASTE
Plastic wastes which disposed will end up in the water bodies, continue flow downstream and breakdown into microplastic, causing harmful consequences to the environment.
03-1 Problem Severity Analysis 03-2 Problem Severity Analysis
Inland River
>200 mm MACROPLASTICS
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4.75-200 mm MESOPLASTICS
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0.33-1 mm 1-4.75 mm
Microplastics
4.75-200 mm
Mesoplastics
>200 mm
Macroplastics
Criticality of plastic polluiton rises when plastic forms smaller and doping complex in sea.
0.33-4.75 mm MICROPLASTICS
Sea
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*UPSTREAM: MAIN TARGET AN LOCATION TO BE IMPROVED
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River Cleaner 04-1 Existing Solution Analysis 04-2 Final Problem Defined
MACROPLASTICS >200 mm
MESOPLASTICS 4.75-200 mm
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Plastic fragment breaks smaller as it travels longer in the water.
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‘Company and enterprise taking serious action and came out with various solution to clean water plastic waste, however they are lack of efficiency and designed only for individual location.
In many countries like Bangladesh, India, Malaysia and many more, domestic waste still generated a huge amount every day from upper stream of the river. Thus, I focus and magnify the problem from the very beginning, have to coordination and base on local conditions to designed an efficienct solution to stop and collect plastic debris before it reaches our ocean.’
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05 PROJECT
River Cleaner
RIVER WASTE FLOW STUDY
River Waste Flow Tendency Observation The river will naturally form a inertia force when cornering at the bend, forcing the surface current rush to the concave bank and carry forward all the floating objects assemble.
05-1 River Waste Characteristic Research & Study
Natural Gathered Spot
Using these natural gathered spot to intercept the pass through river plastic wastes and collect them. 5 Second
10 Second
15 Second
05-2 Ideation & Design
RIVER SECTION HORIZONTAL CIRCULATION DIAGRAM
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Water Flow Stimulation
Study the inertia phenomenon of water flow, record the colored water movement by every 5 seconds and verified the theory.
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IDEATION & DESIGN
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River Cleaner 06-1 Design Concept Brief 06-2 Design Prototype Scene Simulation
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River Cleaner 2.0
River Cleaner, an automated river recycling station utilizes the natural laws and energy of the water flow to achieve accumulation and automatic recycling of floating waste. The design of cycle economy and cradle to cradle model using the way of low-energy consumption deal with environmental issues is achieved.
River Cleaner is a floating waste collector using natural water current to gather, convey and collect without consuming additional energy. The river current will push the turbine blade and drive the screw conveyor to pick up floating waste within the water and make the environment much more cleaner. Every part of the design is driven by the force of nature to achieve low energy cosy and to purify the environment by using low tech-solution.
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River Flow Curved Circulation Surface current flow through river bend will rush to concave bank due to inertia force and gather floating trash naturally.
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River Cleaner 07-1 Design Theory Used of River Current 07-2 Design Theory Used of Floating Dock(Barrier)
Waste Gathered Natura Collect and pick up gathered plastic waste immediately.
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Bio-Floating Dock ·Alter river current to lead trash ·For ecological growth ·Water purification
ally
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Real-Time Waste Collect Floating and underwater plastic waste will be continuously collected by the conveyor.
08-1 Design Theory Used of Hydropower
Harmless To Fish
Fish will not enter the conveyo and free in nature.
08-2 System & Structure
Floating Trash
Mainly consists of plastic waste which normally float between 50cm under water surface.
RIVER CLEANER STATION SECTION
River Cleaner designed to collect plastic waste which floats just under the water surface(around 50cm). Cleaning station will be fixed positioning at a suitable depth to make efficient work. Environment Impact Design
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WASTE COLLECTING PROCESS
Collect Port Drainage Port
Reflection Strip
Trash Tank
River Cleaner collect the gathered waste using only hydraulic power without costing extra energy.
Load Sensor Platform
or
Trash tank will sink down when full and stop the collection.
Screw Conveyor
e,
Working at 25°~35°. Continuous spinning and convey trash.
Hydro Power
By using nature power to make conveyor keep spinning.
Trash Tank
Collected trash will be carry away by boat.
Anchor
Keep the station stable and prevent overturn.
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Smart Cleaning Mode Cleaning worker will replace the trash tank once the tank is completely full .
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River Cleaner 09-1 Trash Collection Workflow
09-2 Role in Circular Economy
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Internet of Things
IOT may link up worker, department and cleanup station to transfer signal and make instant data update automatically.
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Circular Economy
River Cleaner System creates a larger circular economy model to maximize the benefits of every single plastic particles and get rid of untreated waste.
STEP 1
LOAD DETECT & NOTIFY WORKER
STEP2
TRANSPORT FULL TANK TO COLLECT
STEP3
TRASH TANK COLLECT ASHORE
STEP4
TRASH COLLECTED BY TRUCK
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River Cleaner 10-1 Understanding & Research 10-2 Data Collection
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SCALE DOWN PROTOTYPE
Prototype helps to explain the idea of the design during all the presentation and idea sharing.
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River Cleaner 11-1 Understanding & Research 11-2 Data Collection
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IDEA SPREADING AND CONCEPT SHARING
By sharing my idea through exhibition and design competition, I could spread the ideas and wake up people awareness about the pollution and attract experts to work together. Environment Impact Design
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River Cleaner 12-1 Understanding & Research
Why I made River Cleaner?
I’m a Malaysian guy born in Alor Setar, Northern State of West Malaysia Penisula. Almost half of my childhood, living in a village just beside an untreated sewage river full with different domestic waste. Everybody there seems to take this situation for granted, including me. Just until I started to surfing and learn free diving during the time I studied in Taiwan, I saw the same issues here and even in the sea. Since then I realized that this is a global issues and‘must‘ start to take serious action to deal with it. With my abilities developed at school, I study and designed River Cleaner as my final year project.
What do I do next?
River Cleaner 2.0, is redesigned and improved, the design solution based on practical theory and being much more efficient than the first. However, 1:1 prototype should be made to be tested for discovered and further data collection. These works could not be done by my own and also companies in Taiwan have low interest in investing my project(freshman) after meeting them. Without professional experts from different field and huge amount of money to form a team, the project is hard to be carried out. Thus, I decided to seek for working opportunity in related international companies and contribute my knowledge, design and development abilities to optimize our environment.
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Tan Kok Keong 2018 - 2019
CONTACT
Tan Kok Keong(Felix) +886 983517392 acapella.chen1996@gmail.com Environment Impact Design