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To Catch & release
To Catch & release
The CATCH/RELEASE system is an enclosed filtration system that can be easily [retro]fitted onto any watercraft. As polluted water enters the system, it will interact with ferrofluid thus allowing the non-polar microplastics to bind with the ferrofluid. Then using an electromagnet, the waste is pulled as a solid to another vat, which would be brought to our management systems at ports around the world.
The above is a simulation of what our system would do within a body of water. Each coloured point (with a number) represents a watercraft with our CATCH/RELEASE system attached, and each white dot represents a set of microplastic on the surface of the ocean. By clicking on the simulation, it "spawns" another ship in the body of water.
It is evident that as the number of ships increases, the rate of microplastic being collected also increases. This emphasizes the ability to capture data on the concentration of microplastics, within a location, and the impact that a fleet of ships would have on reducing microplastics.
In reality, our network of CATCH/RELEASE systems would upload live data from each host to our website, creating a map showing the concentration of microplastics in differing areas of water. Thus creating a dataset of the location of the garbage patches, which can then be used to help remove such waste from our waters.
Afterwards, at our diverse waste management network, the collected waste would be refined and the ferrofluid then is recycled. After singling out the microplastics, we would then analyze the debris which would be informative on how the debris can be repurposed.
Full screen: https://editor.p5js.org/rlaeoghks112/full/qIkfj3_sx
Data acquisition
Data acquisition
Data Processing
Data Processing
Garbage collection
Garbage collection
Global Network
Global Network
With a number of waste management facilities, the collected materials can be easily refined by a variety of watercrafts around the world.
Current map showing the live locations of all boats in the world showing the potential number of host watercraft that could hold Barnacle's CATCH/RELEASE system.
The reach of our solution is easily emphasized by enabling the density map (by clicking the bottom interactive button).
An overview video of NASA's garbage patch visualization experiment using buoys over a 35 year period, from 1980 to 2015, and then also a computational rendering.
A video with a combination of the data from buoys and the computational rendering to exhibit the location of where 'garbage patches' would reside.
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/details.cgi?aid=4174
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