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Oil Skimmer RC Boat

Accidental oil spills from ships contribute to 15% of oil entering oceans each year, damaging marine life and industries. An RC boat equipped with an onboard oil separator collects spilled oil faster than large machinery. The boat uses pumps and tanks to separate oil from water, collecting oil in one tank and releasing water. A swarm of affordable, portable RC boats could quickly clean large spills and recover oil, minimizing environmental and economic impacts.

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Oil Skimmer RC Boat

Accidental oil spills from ships contribute to 15% of oil entering oceans each year, damaging marine life and industries. An RC boat equipped with an onboard oil separator collects spilled oil faster than large machinery. The boat uses pumps and tanks to separate oil from water, collecting oil in one tank and releasing water. A swarm of affordable, portable RC boats could quickly clean large spills and recover oil, minimizing environmental and economic impacts.

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Oil Skimmer RC Boat

Accidental Oil spills from tankers and ships contribute to 15 percent of the oil entering the
ocean every year. Oil tankers and ships have spilled over 6 billion tonnes of oil into our seas
since 1970. Such oil spills have very harmful impacts including

 Death and harm to sea creatures.


 Heavy damage to marine plant life.
 Makes seafood unsafe to consume.
 Hinders shipping routes and fishing industry.
 Heavy losses of oil shipment lost.
 Risk of fire during cleaning operations.

Well the only solution to minimize this damage is to instantly lean up on oil spills the
moment they happen. Well cleaning of oil spills require heavy and specialized machinery
and ships that cannot be made available to oil spill locations as soon as a spill occurs. Also
there is a chance of files when driving large machinery through oil spilled waters.
Well we here propose to develop a small rc drone boat than works as an oil skimmer to
separate oil from water. A swarm of such small drones working together can get rid of oil
spills while also being able to recover the oil spilled.
The rc oil skimmer boat brings following advantages:

 RC Controlled Operation
 Onboard oil Separator System
 Easy to Carry Portable Boat Drones for instant cleaning
 Ability to recover oil spilled over the sea
 Low cost RC boats for Cleaning Oil Spills

The rc drone is controlled by a dc motor propelled system with 2x rudders with user making
use of an RC remote to operate the boat. The rc boat is integrated with an on-board oil
skimmer system that separates oil from the water and collects it in a different tank. This
allows to not only clean the oil but also recover it from the ocean.
Here is how the on board oil separator system works:

 Water is collected through Collector Inlet


 This is driven to separator tank using DC Pumps
 Now the Separator has 2 partitions
 Oil & Water Viscosity Leads oil to float on top
 This is used to collect oil in right side chamber
 This oil is now pumped through outlet pump
 Separated water is thrown back through Water outlet pipe
This separated oil is now collected in the oil tank located at the back of the RC boat. The
water inlet collectors that are used to collect water and oil are integrated with steel mesh to
filter out garbage or sea creatures from entering the pump.
The user uses an RC remote to send control commands wirelessly to the rc boat. An
onboard receiver receives these commands and a microcontroller is used to process these
commands and drive the DC motor in order to create a drive. It uses a servo motor with 2 X
rudder system to achieve directional movement.
Thus the RC boat swarm allows for a safer and futuristic way to deal more effectively with
oil spills. With 10 Litre Oil carrying capacity in each boat, each RC boat can collect over 60
Litres of oil in an hour. With over 100 such RC boats we can clean and recover 6000 litres of
oil in an hour and around 72000 Litres of oil in 12 Hours.

Components:
 Atmega Microcontroller
 DC Pump Motors
 DC Drive Motor
 Servo motor
 Propeller
 Rudders
 Separator Tank
 Pipes and Joints
 Mounts and Fittings
 Battery
 Oil Collector Tank
 Inlet & Outlet Pipes
 Boat Frame
 Shafts & Couplings
 Mounts & joints
 Screws & Bolts
 Collector Pipe
 Filter Mesh
 Resistors Capacitors
 Diodes Transistors
 PCB Board
 RC Controller

Applications:
 Oil Spills in Sea, Rivers, Lakes
Advantages:
 RC Controlled Operation
 Onboard oil Separator System
 Easy to Carry Portable Boat Drones for instant cleaning
 Ability to recover oil spilled over the sea
 Low cost RC boats for Cleaning Oil Spills

Disadvantages/Future Enhancements:
 Limited Collector Capacity can be enhanced to 50 Litre Collector per boat
 Needs Battery Charging/Replacement after 1-2 Hours of operation..

Working Diagram
Side View

Front View

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