Design improvement and functional analysis of portable oil spill skimmer

Azhar, Muhammad Nurazraa’e (2021) Design improvement and functional analysis of portable oil spill skimmer. Project Report. Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

The portable oil spill skimmer is a device that used to make a cleanup spillage of oil on the surface of water. Different type of device in the reaction plan of oil spillage is currently used in compliance with the requirements of the waste and the procedures used, such as booms, skimmers, barriers, storage barges, tanks and even vessels. However, the existed oil spill skimmer have a weakness on its performance. It not suitable for wavy surface of water, the linear motion is not stable and need a long period to finish the cleanup. This report proposes and explain the information about redesign the new hull part, reduce the time taken for oil collection and improve the linear motion stability. One of the possibilities to improve the hull part is to embed the catamaran hull design due to high stability performance on the portable spill skimmer. For the oil collecting, the skimmer is most suitable and the material is polypropylene. The dimension of the polypropylene roller need to be increase to able the roller to collect more oil and reduce the time taken. The number of propeller motor can be use either single or more than one. The method used in this project is starting from brainstorming to identify the solution for the problem. Then, need to find out the requirement needs to improve the exsited product and continue to generate the design concept which have five different design of hull. The selection of design and propeller motor must go through the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) method. In conclusion, the portable oil spill skimmer is proposed to be improved by redesign the hull, enlarge the size of skimmer and increase the linear motion stability. With the improvement that have been made, the portable oil spill skimmer could performed well on the wavy water surface and can reduced the period to complete the cleaning job.

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