High-Level Project Summary
We developed a solution for the challenge: Have Seeds will Travel! Its significance lies in its ability to recycle because we believe that recycling is essential in an environment where nothing is available. Furthermore, our hydroponic system is integrated by the use of Biodigester, a device used to recycle solid waste such as manure to convert it into rich fertilizer. Moreover, the waste gases will also be burned using a gas burner to decompose the hydro compound, Methane, into Carbon Dioxide and Water, which are chemicals essential for plant growth.
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Detailed Project Description
The project utilizes Human Solid Waste as an agent to grow plants in space, resulting to a much lesser disposal of waste from the ISS or Space Modules. The system is also designed to be automated to make it independent for plants to grow in the whole structure.
The picture below shows the design of the system.
The Process of nutrient conversion:
The process of Data processing of the system:
The overall process of nutrient conversion:
Space Agency Data
For Space Agency data, we used the Troposphere Monitoring Instrument from Sentinel - 5 Satellite, PAGASA, and NASA weather data to verify and callibrate the sensors we used in the experiment.
Hackathon Journey
The team is composed of brilliant minds from BS Aerospace Engineering, Ateneo de Davao. Our idea was inspired by the Martian, a movie about an astronaut left behind on Mars, and used the concepts of the farming system to survive and grow food on foreign soils. In our case, we used it as an inspiration to highlight the power of recycling, and its significance especially in barren environments like outer space. The idea may sound a bit funny, but the impact of utilizing solid waste is much more efficient than bringing new supplies to our astronauts.
References
Jyothilakshmi, R. and Prakash, S., 2016. Design, Fabrication and Experimentation of a Small Scale Anaerobic Biodigester for Domestic Biodegradable Solid Waste with Energy Recovery and Sizing Calculations. Procedia Environmental Sciences, 35, pp.749-755.
Ghiandelli, M., 2017. Development and implementation of small-scale biogas balloon biodigester in Bali, Indonesia. Masters, Graduate. KTH School of Industrial Engineering and Management.
Sihombing, P., Karina, N., Tarigan, J. and Syarif, M., 2018. Automated hydroponics nutrition plants systems using arduino uno microcontroller based on android. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 978, p.012014.
Nasa.gov. 2021. Veggie. [online] Available at: <https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/veggie_fact_sheet_508.pdf> [Accessed 25 September 2021].
Pandey, S., Houweling, S., Lorente, A., Borsdorff, T., Tsivlidou, M., Bloom, A., Poulter, B., Zhang, Z. and Aben, I., 2021. Using satellite data to identify the methane emission controls of South Sudan's wetlands. Biogeosciences, 18(2), pp.557-572.
Tags
#Recycling #Reducing #Reusing #SpaceAgriculture #SpacePlants #ZeroWaste
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