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Solar Powered Floating Water Trash Collector

Dr.Poornima R1, Dr.Sathish Kumar T M2, Veeramani R3, Karuppanasamy K4, Rameshkumar J5,
Jothimani M6, Mahendran R7
1,2,3,4,5,6,7
Assistant Professor, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering,
K.S.R. College of Engineering, Namakkal, Tamil Nadu, India

Abstract - The population of India was increased day by NGC (Navigation Guide and Control) system that help
day and due to this the pollution is also getting increased. this collector clean the water surface.
The garbage which is being produced by the people is the
main cause for pollution. Most of the garbage are
II.LITERATURE SURVEY
dumped or just thrown in lake, river or other water
resources. The garbage that is being thrown in the water
bodies leads to water pollution and most of the water a. Design and prototype development of portable
become unused due to pollution. In most of the cities in trash collector
India this water pollution is the major problem. By Author Abdullah, MohdAzizudin and Endut
taking this into consideration, this project Solar introduced the trash collector boats are often designed
Operated Water Trash Collector is to remove garbage, in large size to cater to the high trash loading for
debris and solid waste from water bodies and make it surface water cleaning purpose. For small streams and
clean. The water trash collector concept is to reduce drainage, the manual cleaning method is often used.
manpower and time consumption for cleaning the river.
The water trash collector is to collect many types of
b. Theory of materials for solar energy conversion
wastes from water bodies and also reduces the human
interference. It collects a wide variety of wastes from Martsinovich implemented this solution to these
water bodies and reduces human interference. Waste materials for solar energy conversion. Solar energy is
collected from equipment is disposed of in easy ways. one such renewable resource, and nature uses it
Solar based water garbage collector is eco-friendly in through the process of photosynthesis. The project is
nature and it is safe for the user. aimed at purifying the environment, especially
swimming pools, using renewable energy to make the
Index Terms - Solar panel, Waste removal, pollution, sun a more efficient source of energy.
Garbage.
I.INTRODUCTION
c. Automatic Trash Removal System in Water
Bodies
Disposal of household waste in rivers or lakes leads to
Parakash and Markose proposed a disposal of
declining water quality and ultimately to a more
household waste in rivers or lakes can lead to a decline
significant impact on water pollution. Although the
in water quality and ultimately a significant impact on
problem of waste disposal occurs frequently, it has not
water pollution.
yet been solved despite various alternative measures
being taken in different places. Many countries have
III.BLOCK DIAGRAM AND SYSTEM ANALYSIS
spent a lot of money to control this problem, such as
protecting greenery and polluted rivers. On the other
The block diagram describes the power supply is
hand, the creation of an automated vehicle is one of
directly connected to the keypad; The Keypads are
the community’s efforts to collect garbage that has not
widely used input devices being used in various
accumulated in water reservoirs. Commonly referred
electronics and embedded projects. The keypad in the
to as the Water Garbage Collector WTC, it has three
system consists of four switches used for controlling
main components, the Hull, the Power System and the
the direction of the floating machine.

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6. RF Receiver: The RF receiver is used to receive

encrypted data transmitted by the RF transmitter.
The data obtained is then fed to a transistor that
acts as an amplifier.
7. Solar Panel: A solar panel consists of several
photovoltaic cells that cannot generate electricity
by photovoltaic effect. This energy is used to
charge the batteries. Solar output is provided for
DC regulators.
Figure 1: Block diagram of system
Switch 1 is used to move forward. Switch 2 is used for V.WORKING PRINCIPLES
reverse movement. For moving in left and right
directions switch 3and switch 4 is used. The whole The main aim is to introduce the use of non-
remote system is working with the help of 5V battery conventional energy source (solar) to run the garbage
power supply. The RF transmitter sends signals to the collection equipment. Our system takes the waste by
RF receiver. The RF transmitter and receiver pair are using filter mechanism and throws it in a chamber
used for wireless communication. The wireless data situated at the back. The water wheel is bolted onto the
transmission is done using Radio Frequency signals shaft, which is placed on the base frame. The purpose
that are modulated using Amplitude Shift Keying of the water wheel is to move the machine forward or
(ASK) Modulation technique. backward in the water. The motor is used to rotate the
water wheel with the help of a chain drive mechanism.
IV.COMPONENTS This motor also powers the collecting waste by using
the filter. Finally, the floating waste is collected by the
1. Arduino Board: The Atmega328 is a very popular bin which is placed inside the boat.
microcontroller chip produced by Atmel. It is an
8-bit microcontroller that has 32K of flash VI.HARDWARE SETUP
memory, 1K of EEPROM, and 2K of internal
SRAM. Therefore, the implementation of Solar Water Trash
2. Battery: A battery is a device in which chemical Collector is designed for the purpose of minimizing
energy is directly converted to electrical energy. manpower and for the convenience of the people.
It consists of one or more voltaic cells, each of
which is composed of two half cells connected in
series by the conductive electrolyte. It consists of
one or more voltaic cells in series.
3. Motor Driver Board: The L293D is a common
motor drive or motor driver IC that allows the DC
motor to run in any direction. The L293D is a 16-
pin IC that can control the assembly of two DC
motors simultaneously in any direction.
4. DC Motor: A DC motor is an electric motor that
converts electrical energy into mechanical energy.
In a DC motor, the input electrical energy is the
direct current that is converted into mechanical
rotation.
5. RF Transmitter: Whenever a high output pulse is
applied to the base of transistor BF 494, the Figure 2: Hardware setup diagram for water trash
transistor conducts, so the tank circuit oscillates. collector
The tank circuit consists of L2 and C4 which VII.ADVANTAGES
generate 433 MHz carrier signal.

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• It is a non-conventional river cleaning system. [1] Mohamed Idhris, M. Elamparthi, C. Manoj

• It’s initial & maintenance cost is low. Kumar, N. Nithyavathy, K. Suganeswaran, S.
• Skill Worker not required to drive the system. Arunkumar, “Design and fabrication of remote-
• Environment friendly system. controlled sewage cleaning machine”, IJETT, vol.
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• Utilization of renewable energy sources. [2] Abhijeet. M. Ballade, Vishal. S. Garde, Akash. S.
Lahaina and Pranav. V. Boob, “Design &
VIII.APPLICATIONS fabrication of river cleaning system”, IJMTER,
vol. 4, no. 2, February 2017.
[3] P. M. Sirsat, I. A. Khan, P. V. Jadhav, P. T. Date,
• This applies to water pollution in rivers and
“Design and fabrication of river waste cleaning
ponds.
machine”, IJCMES, 2017.
• To keep the water bodies clean, it is useful to
[4] Swapnil S. Bhavarkar, Akanksha Kelwade,
remove any sediments that may be present.
Akanksha Thete, Komal Chandekar, Mrunali
• In this Pandemic situation, it’s much better to
Janwe, Nikita Gajbhiye, Prerna Gajbhiye,
avoid contact with patients, so we can modify and
“Review on solar operated water cleaning boat,”
use this system in hospitals as well to collect
IJARIIE, vol. 4, no. 1, 2018.
medical waste.
[5] Madhavi N. Wagh, Kashinath Munde, “Design
• These are often used for correct treatment of
and analysis of river water cleaning machine,”
sewage also on avoid blockage of drains.
IJSDR, vol. 3, no. 7, July 2018.
[6] Gajanan. P. Solanke, Omkar. S. Shinde, Vaibhav.
IX.CONCLUSION
V. Jadhav, Vijay. S. Jagadle, S. R. Kulkarni, “To
design solar operated garbage collector,”
This project design and analysis of river water
International Journal for Technological Research
treatment plant was based on research in literature and
in Engineering, vol.4, no. 9, May 2017.
various journals and papers and was fabricated
[7] Rahul Prakash K. V, Jithu Markose, Maneesh K.
accordingly, so it will provide flexibility in operation.
P, Niketh Manohar, P. Sridharan, Jerin Cyriac,
This invention is easy and has a lot of space to grow at
“Automatic trash removal system in water
low cost and high economy. The project is a "solar
bodies,” IJESC, vol. 7, no. 4, 2017.
powered floating water garbage collector" designed in
[8] Samie, A., Obi, C., Igumbor, J. and Momba, M.
the hope that it will be more economical and help clean
2009. Focus on 14 sewage treatment plants in the
the river and pond. It is very cheap and very useful to
Mpumalanga Province, South Africa in order to
the society in terms of designing it and estimating cost
gauge the efficiency of wastewater treatment. Afr.
and availability.
J. Biotech., 8(14): 3276–3285.
X.FUTURE SCOPE
[9] Department of Water Affairs and Forestry
(DWAF). 1998. Quality of domestic water
Currently the world is facing a huge problem of
supplies - assessment guide, Department of Water
garbage accumulation. Also, it is growing at a
Affairs and Forestry, Pretoria.
tremendous rate, so it is very difficult to clean up all
[10] Vieno, N., Tuhkanen, T. and Kronberg, L.
of this floating debris because it requires a lot of
“Elimination of pharmaceuticals in sewage
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floating river cleaning machine is more likely to
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automatically remove large amounts of debris as
[11] Basant Rai, “Pollution and conservation of Ganga
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