Background

According to BBC New, the garbage island of the Pacific Ocean extended 1.6 million km2; that is, almost three times the size of France that contains 80,000 tons of plastics. To reduce the amount of plastic in the ocean, a technology, procedure or system will be developed that focuses on the cleanliness of the island of garbage, in an ecological way.

Objective

• Clean as much trash as possible from toxic islands.
• Recycle the garbage collected.
• Take advantage of recycled resources to make the project economically self-sustainable.
• Raise awareness about the situation of our oceans.
• Remove polymers from our food chain.

What is SILO Project?

Integrated Ocean Cleaning System (in Spanish). It is a system of drones function by solar energy, to collect and recycle the garbage of the islands of oceanic garbage, economically and ecologically.

How SILO project work?

Drone system, where the operating station sends the instructions to be executed by the drone. This will also evaluate the emergency situations to execute a protection system for all the SILO system. For example, in case of a storm, the station assesses the situation; If the drone is in danger, before the storm, the operating station will send instructions to return to the base. Then execute the protection system that is based on, store the drone at the base station then the station closes by soaking in the water.

It will also be the power supply zone for the drones; since the station will have solar panels for energy collection.

The drone will be responsible for garbage collection (plastic), transporting it to the collection station.

Collection station: The garbage collected at this station will be deposited to begin its classification and processing. Once the collection station reaches its processing limit, the operation station will be notified and in turn will be communicated to ground operations to begin transporting the processed product.

The product transportation system is based on a ship where the plastic is transported to land, to begin recycling procedure.

The recycling system converts the plastic into blocks or bricks for the construction of structures. In Africa, a Colombian businessman transformed the plastic into bricks to build educational centers. The bricks are easy to assemble, durable and low cost being twice as strong as any traditional building material. In addition, it maintains a comfortable temperature, and does not spread the flames.

All the SILO system are base in artificial intelligence

Results

• Have a drone system that works based on solar energy
• Elimination of a large percentage of plastic waste in the ocean.
• Recycle plastic ecologically and economically

NASA Resources

Ocean Currents & Circulation resources, https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/OceanCurrentsCirculation

Using the NASA database we can determine the direction of the Mariana current and locate the largest concentration of garbage in the ocean.

Future Plans

After the Space Apps 2019 we will continue developing and improving our project, designing the best model for the base of the drones, including a self-sustainability system within each base which includes the use of photo-voltaic energy through the use of solar panels.

Built With

Fusion 360: designing the drone

Try it Out

NASA TRASH 2019 Github: https://github.com/MUTPANAMA/NASA_TRASH/projects/1

Good Document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1u-4HNdnNnap0X73kvd7t60DQC9n4ZI7dAMTQYNPiQMg/edit

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