The saucers, float on the surface moving circularly to pull the waste towards its center. These saucers will have a central outlet which will swallow the waste and is connected via a tube to various chambers in the ship. Ok to help you visualize this, imagine a gigantic vacuum cleaner with many cleaning tubes attached to many dust bags.
Once the waste enters the tube we have various stages which will then segregate it. The first sensor will be an infrared sensor which alerts ERVIS for marine life. We could use thermal activity to detect presence of life and put it back in the ocean.
The waste then goes to the first level - an oil filter, which collects waste oil and sends it to the oil chamber. We would like to treat this waste oil, either decompose it or store it for safe disposal. The second, third, fourth & fifth chambers are for large, medium, small & micro waste respectively.
Once the waste enters these chambers we follow these steps –
- First we take a sample of the waste and analyze it
- Then we then send it to a segregator to separate plastic from non-plastic items. The plastic is compacted and stored in cubes.
- the other waste is taken and degraded with bacteria or stored for separate disposal.