Team+1+Design


 * Preliminary Sketches**

Eric My design was for a vehicle that could traverse on sand easily while grabbing sand to separate the oil. It would start by filling up its tank with sand by using the scoop to shovel the sand in to the container. Then it would stop moving and the water would move from the tank to into the sand container to separate the sand/oil and after about 5 min. The oil would be on top and a pump would then take out the top of the water/oil mixture and store it in the oil container. Then a hatch would open and let the sand /water back onto the beach and would continue on its merry way until the beaches are clean.

This is my idea of cleaning the oil up on the shore line. This machine is self-controlling and the purpose of the machine is to separate the oil from the sand. Here is the process that this is going to happen. First, the machine is going to scrap up the first 3 inches or so of the top sand where the oil is in the sand then will fill up in this storage container inside the machine. From there we have a chemical that is going to separate the oil from sand, once it fills up it is going to flow into another storage container which from there is going to get sucked up and go into a detachable cart which with have the oil. Then the sand will just flow out underneath the machine going back onto the shore nice and oil free.