Critiques for proposal form from Ms. Bharat are highlighted in red below.
RATIONALE:
Trinidad and Tobago, for its size has a high population
density and is quickly rising. Trinidad’s soil type is typically sandy or clay
like. These are not good conditions for farming. As a result, farmers in
Trinidad undergo laborious and expensive farming practices to improve these
conditions by investing in manure, tilling, ploughing, fertilizing and
pesticide uses. This style of farming demands long tedious hours in the field.
Growing food hydroponically can simplify this process significantly.
Hydroponics uses no soil. Weeding out unwanted plants is no longer an issue.
Hydroponics can be grown indoors so no fertilizers is needed because there are
no pests in the soil. Many seedlings planted in soil die due to pests, intense
heat, poor soil conditions. Hydroponics yield and quality is much greater than
soil and uses about 99% less water. Apartment buildings /townhouses are becoming a new trend in Trinidad.
Many residents have no access to land at all. Hydroponics allows anyone to
grow their own food even if their soil type is concrete! (I like your creativity
but for reports use factual statements..concrete is not a soiltype so say even
if there is no soil but only concrete) This project should help answer
some questions between horizontal and vertical hydroponic systems. •Which will
grow faster? • Which would have a
greater yield? •Would the quality be any different? •Which is better suited
for urban versus suburban residents? •Should farmers switch from soil farming
to hydroponic farming? Your rationale is to help improve hydroponics systems by
determining which system is more productive within a given space. We are not
interested un switching from soil to hydro in this project.
OBJECTIVES:
(1) to design, construct and test horizontal and vertical
hydroponics plant growth systems
(2)
to compare the economic production quality and efficiency
of horizontal and vertical hydroponics system.
PROJECT SCOPE:
This project entails the design, construction and testing of
horizontal and vertical hydroponic plant growth systems in a controlled
environment. For testing purposes, the hydroponic systems would be built in a
controla controlled environment may be expensive at
this point so we may have to test under open field but this is fine once both
systems are under the same conditions room indoors, to monitor
temperature, light exposure, growth rate and protection against pests. An
artificial lighting system would be installed on the ceiling as an alternative
to sunlight. Since both systems are being tested, for maximum light exposure
efficiency the walls of the room would be wrapped with reflective
material. The horizontal and vertical
systems would be logged against each other daily measuring root and leaf
distribution and weight of plants. Quality may be subjective, visual
inspection and taste will be recorded at harvest time.
ENGINEERING PRINCIPLES/ TOOLS TO BE APPLIED
Workshop technology, Irrigation, SolidWorks and mechanical drawing,
Machine Design (design process), Fluid Mechanics, Thermodynamics, Elements of
Food Engineering, Soil and Water Engineering and Engineering Mathematics for calculations.
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