Bahia Wave corp.| Trash Cleanup
Project Details
The Challenge | Trash Cleanup
Open ocean oil and derivatives rastreation.
The premise is to track the oil so that the entities (Government, Navy, IBAMA) can take the positions of not letting the oil reach beaches, mangroves and rivers affecting marine life and, consequently, human lifestyle.
Oil is considered a hazardous cargo and its transportation and handling are risky activities, with the possibility of material, human and environmental damage. BTex exposure results in illness and even death for people, animals or vegetables. In Brazil, oil stains of unknown origin are appearing in the northeastern coast affecting the ecosystem.
In this context, the identification of hydrocarbon stains in the seas and oceans is imperative.
Bahia Wave Corporation proposes the use of a wireless communication network between signal buoys provided with fluorimeter sensors, the use of microcontrollers and wireless radio frequency communication. The solution is powered by solar panels and batteries.
Source:https://www.cascais.pt/evento/boias-e-balizas-de-sinalizacao-maritima-o-que-sao-e-como-funcionam
Every organism presents, in its constitution, chemical substances and molecules, which define them biologically and environmentally, called biomarkers.
The fluorimeter sensor allows monitoring of the concentration of polyaromatic refined hydrocarbon (365 nm), crude hydrocarbon (450 nm) and tryptophan, a surrogate marker for Biological Oxygen Demand (BOD) [Source: Agsolve], which is transformed into digital signal, capable of being interpreted by a microcontroller like Arduino, which is a free hardware, single-board electronic prototyping platform designed with an Atmel AVR microcontroller with built-in input / output support, a standard programming language, essentially C / C ++. . [Source: Wikipedia]
Sensor source: https://www.agsolve.com.br/produto/1081/uvilux-
Function Description:
The buoys will be carried by ships and launched into the sea. The distance between the buoys would ensure coverage of the long-distance radio signal at least four kilometers.
Once in place, the existing microcontroller programming will read the data collected by the sensors and establish network communication between the buoys, generating a monitoring network capable of issuing alerts when hydrocarbons on the surface or submerged in the sea.
Our goal is to track the oil so that entities such as government, navy, ibama or responsible agencies can take appropriate steps to remove waste before it causes further damage to ecosystems.
The detection float solution is based on the problems encountered in using satellites to detect oil slicks.
According to Humberto Barbosa, a researcher at the Federal University of Alagoas regarding the environmental disaster that occurs in the northeast coastal region, "Searching for satellite oil is like a nearsightedness to want to read far away." “Beyond the distance, Barbosa states that the consistency of the oil that reaches the northeastern coast is unsuitable for satellite capture.” [Fonte Uol]
Reference:
1- http://pelicano.ipen.br/PosG30/TextoCompleto/Lilian%20Polakiewicz_M.pdf
4-https://medium.com/petrobras/o-dna-do-petr%C3%B3leo-e68643191719
5-https://repositorio.unp.br/index.php/runpetro/article/view/335
7-https://www.agsolve.com.br/produto/1081/uvilux-
8-https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arduino
9-https://siaiap32.univali.br/seer/index.php/bjast/article/viewFile/285/246