SEPARATION PROCESS I PROJECT (SMJC 3263)
Monday, 09th December 2019
Today mark the day i presented my project in front of the panel including my two others lecturer. I really got nervous like 2-3 hours before our group turns as i started to worry because of the content of presentation by other group is better than us (they include problem statement, objectives, etc) and prototype. I was like they were really creative to design a good plant process. Unfortunately, a terrible mistakes occurred during presentation because of me as i am lacking a confidence at that time. This is my first time to be a leader in a project group.
We named our group as “DRYARS” as we will be focusing on dry distillation. After having a lot of opinion, discussion and so on, we choose to further study on “dry distillation of discarded rubber tires”. The product of this process are steel wire, fuel, solid residue and carbon particles. Our main concern is to do a new improvement on the recent industry related to our topic. After countless meeting and rejection of idea on improvement, we came to conclude that we used byproduct which is steel wire as the new improvement or problem but it is still related to dry distillation. I tried my best to be a good leader and example for my teammate. I try and error a lot when it comes to discussion, task distribution, design of prototype, references and even the smallest things matter like who is capable to responsible on what position.
Below is the whole process of dry distillation of discarded rubber tires and the new improvement that we implement which is by doing steel melting production.
And I introduced my team member and our roles in this project.
Below is the prototype from our group. Most of the materials is used from recycle material like straw, box and so on. We also negotiate with other team to borrow their things so that we can save money and environment.
I learned a lot from this project where we need to always confident with whatever we decided. Don’t ever felt weak until the end. Luckily we receive two questions that we had predicted before from panel and students.