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COMPARATIVE EFFICIENCIES OF HORIZONTAL VERSUS VERTICAL HYDROPONICS PLANT GROWTH SYSTEMS

My name is Charisma Jankee, currently a year 3 student at The University of the West Indies reading for BSc Mechanical Engineering with a Minor in Biosystems. The purpose of the blog is to document the economic productivity, quality, and efficiency of horizontal versus vertical hydroponic systems.

Thursday 28th October, 2021

Concept Selection was done by using the pairwise comparison to create a Pugh Chart

Pairwise:

Pugh Chart:

Concept design 3 was chosen for the vertical system.

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Monday 04th October, 2021

Today was hectic, so I decided to get some useful links for the project only. https://journals.utm.my/jurnalteknologi/article/view/13931 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/fes3.83 https://www.hortipower.com/blogs/news/home-hydroponics-for-beginners-how-to-get-started https://constantdelights.com/post/wick-system https://www.nosoilsolutions.com/6-different-types-hydroponic-systems/ https://books.google.tt/books?hl=en&lr=&id=rwlMDwAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PP1&dq=design+and+build+of+NFT+horizontal+system&ots=f8RjGmZx58&sig=xLplOWqzwMN9NfCZo94erfwROAg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Dinkar-Gaikwad/publication/346953811_Hydroponics_Cultivation_of_Crops/links/5fd3971b92851c13fe7bd7ff/Hydroponics-Cultivation-of-Crops.pdf Hoagland, D.R. and Arnon, D.I. 1938. The water culture method for growing plants without soil. California Agricultural Experiment Station Circulars, 347: 1-39

Calculations - Average flow rate

Diameter of pipe, D = 4” = 0.1016 m R.T.F Volume flow rate Flow rate = Area × Velocity Velocity A pipe with an inner diameter of 4 inches contains water that flows at an average velocity of 2m/s Volume flow rate = A × V = 0.0081 × 2 = 0.0162 m 3 /s Converting seconds to hours Volume flow rate = 0.0162 × 3600 = 52.32 m 3 /hr

Wednesday 15th September, 2021-General FYP Meeting

A general meeting was held with all final year students. Lecturer: Prof. Pun His lecture entails about conducting research to obtain problem definition, scope, rationale. The lecture notes were informative.