Design A Ballast Tank For Depth Control Underwater Vehicle

Muhamad Fauzi, Ab Latip (2012) Design A Ballast Tank For Depth Control Underwater Vehicle. Project Report. UTeM, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

In underwater vehicle industry, ballast tank is important to allow the vehicle to dive and float back. This project describes a design and development of ballast tank. The project is to show one of its operation principles which are it can submerge underwater and rise back up using remote control. For deep Underwater Vehicle (UV) the most important part is that ballast tank. Without this, there is not possibility that the vehicle can submerged more depth. This project is developing a prototype of ballast tank which are attached to Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) to demonstrate the basic operation of ballast tank as well as it operation in the water. Most of the ROV implement static dive using thrusters. Thus, the purpose of this project is to develop a low cost of ballast tank that implement static dive concept. In Underwater Vehicles, ballast tanks are used to let the ROV to submerge, water being taken in to change the UV's buoyancy and let it to submerge. When the ROV rise up, water is exhale out from the tanks by water pump, and UV becomes positively buoyant again, letting it to move up to the surface.

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