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Global Warming and Meteorites

High-Level Project Summary

We developed a device which is cleaning seas from meteorite fragments. While the water passes through our vehicle with the motors, electromagnets collect meteorite fragments. Meteorite fragments contain heavy metals and they adversely affect the sea ecosystem, especially planktons. Planktons are the most important creatures so we have to protect them.

Link to Final Project

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TBiFHHn9Q4

Link to Project "Demo"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ik6k2Dw53b8

Detailed Project Description

We saw that climate change and global warming harms the sea ecosystem so we wanted to ensure the continuity of life by reducing the effects of climate change and global warming, in order to achieve this, we developed a device that collects meteorite fragments (mostly meteorites contain heavy metals) that adversely affect the sea ecosystem.

While the first motor draws water in, the electromagnets in the middle collect meteorite fragments and the cleaned water is thrown out by the second motor. It was the most important issue for us not to harm any living thing while doing this process, so we made our motors hubless. In this way, the sea creatures caught in the water flow created by the motor can get out of the other side without any damage.

Rotor and Propeller

Stator

Assembled view of motors

Final view of our device

When collecting meteorite fragments, we reduce the toxic effects on plankton, thus protecting one of the most important factors affecting climate change. While doing this process we can also meteorite fragments in scientific studies so we can discover new information about space. We want to integrate our developed vehicle into an underwater drone. We made videos doing all this work, and we want to show people that it's not that hard to actually prevent climate change.

İntegration with rov

Space Agency Data

https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov/?v=30.850361289676854,15.158863580025125,42.965155107137875,37.84712884631344&l=Reference_Labels_15m,Reference_Features_15m,Coastlines_15m,GHRSST_L4_MUR_Sea_Surface_Temperature,VIIRS_NOAA20_CorrectedReflectance_TrueColor(hidden),VIIRS_SNPP_CorrectedReflectance_TrueColor(hidden),MODIS_Aqua_CorrectedReflectance_TrueColor(hidden),MODIS_Terra_CorrectedReflectance_TrueColor(hidden)&lg=true&t=2010-08-13-T18%3A54%3A22Z

https://curator.jsc.nasa.gov/antmet/collection_curation.cfm?section=naming

Hackathon Journey

This adventure was quite different for us because a lot of science-loving students tried to develop a product in their chosen category in a short time. We have to admit it was quite difficult. But despite everything, it was quite enjoyable to meet new people and participate in fun activities. This process has given us the to think outside of the box. Our device which we developed in the challenge we have chosen is based on a study that has never been done before.

We thought the world's biggest problem was climate change, so we felt we had to do something about it. We found a topic which has never been done before. We focused on that topic.

We would like to thank our teachers and everyone who took part in the event for their patience and helpfulness.

References

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8998715/#:~:text=Contamination%20with%20heavy%20metals%20can,14%2C15%2C16%5D

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Karabük Üniversitesi, Brushless Motor Winding Diagram Table. (2021)

http://blog.alphabit.org/2021/02/brushless-motor-winding-diagram-table.html

http://acikerisim.karabuk.edu.tr:8080/xmlui/bitstream/handle/123456789/1665/10442744.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

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