The project has been developed as my final year project. The purpose of this project has been to combine my educational knowledge in Mechanical Engineering, Catia V5, & 3dexperience. Innovation Originality and creativity of the Project: We tried to reduce the burden of the farmer by using PESTICIDE SPRAYER MULTI NOZZLE DRONE
Team collaboration: Number of participants of my team: 3
Teamwork: Although communication is an important aspect of boosting teamwork, you won’t always find conversationalists. Just like ideas, every team member’s personality will be unique. You may find some people who’re excessively talkative and some people who seldom say anything. This doesn’t mean that the less talkative ones are the weak links. Having a strong balance of different personalities stops morale from falling. Develop a habit of listening actively and encourage others to speak. If they hesitate, be patient, and let them have their turns at speaking.
Time spent on the project: approximately 8 months
Problem Description: This project is created to solve the problem of traditional and inefficient spraying methods adopted by farmers. The fertilizer sprayer used by 60-70% farmers in India is the “Backpack Knapsack” Fertilizer sprayer. They need to carry it on their back and then cranking it by hand. This type of pump can’t create high pressure. This may cause many plants to get missed from the spray. Because only one nozzle is there and the operator needs to move the nozzle over each and every plant. One person can cover 2-3 acre area in one day. As efforts are required and continuous cranking by single hand causes serious pain in the hand of operator. He also needs to balance himself with the weight of the sprayer and Pesticides. In muddy area it’s difficult to maintain balance as operator can slip in muddy areas.Our solution tries to solve above issues so that efforts of farmer get reduced and time is also saved.
Problem solving :The machine operates on Drone. Driven sprocket is fixed on crankshaft. Two cranks are mounted on both the sides of crankshaft. When the crankshaft rotates, it gives rotatory motion to cranks and cranks provides reciprocating motion to the compressor cylinders via connecting rods. The reciprocating motion to the cylinders creates positive pressure. The two cylinders uses non return valves to generate the pressure. The pressurized fertilizer solution is then supplied to nozzles via tubes. Compressor Mechanism: It is having two cylinders. One act as a storage chamber as well as piston. 2nd cylinder is used as a cylinder for suction. There is a ball-type nonreturn valve at the bottom of compressor cylinder, which only allows the fluid to enter inside the cylinder. During the suction stroke, the fluid is taken in to cylinder via this non-return valve. The piston also has a non-return valve acting similar to the cylinders non return valve. But gets activated inapposite to suction valve. When valve in suction cylinder is on during suction, the piston valve is closed. During compression, its apposite to suction. This allows the positive pressure to get built up. Due to the use of ball valve, energy required is also less. Due to very small pores available on nozzle, the fluid gets atomized due high pressure. This allows uniform spraying of fertilizer and high velocity. We used as array of nozzles to increase the spraying area. The height of the nozzles can be adjusted by losing and tightening two nuts only. The water pump and batteries are inbuilt in the sprayer.Also, pressure of the pump is high than reciprocating compressor.
Sustainability of the project:We reduce farmers work.
Design & development of a project:-Use of 3D Experience Platform of CATIA V5 Design, Analysis, Optimization and development of a Product.
Description and screenshots of the rendered project
Product Specification:Material: carbon fiber
Overall dimension: 1700 x 1657 x 2086 mm
Weight of the drone:3.6kgs
NOTE: Kindly view images uploaded on the platform for more in-depth explanation of the project. Conclusion & Further course of action: I used an end-to-end solution of 3D Experience Platform of Dassault Systemes at each stage of product development for reaching the objective with more innovation in the digital space. Through the course of product development I learned the vast range of softwares that Dassault Systemes offers to its customers which helps in manufacturing an optimised product.3D Experience Platform of Dassault Systemes has given me a great opportunity for enhancing my skill-set and has helped me to put into practice my approach of ‘Learning By Doing’.
I thank Dassault Systemes Italy, my teammates and my mentor for helping and guiding me during the project development process. The project has been uploaded on the “Student community | Play the experience” SwYm community
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