Project Details
- Innoventure was a technopreneurship competition at National University of Singapore (NUS).
- Our group (consisting of 3 members) secured top position out of 6 participating teams.
- Keen interest was shown by a few companies to take this project to commercialisation stage.
- The challenge was to understand the actual problems faced, propose a solution and a business plan, and develop a prototype for a real-life problem by Jurong Town Corporation (JTC).
Problem Statement
Increase the efficiency of sand discharge from Bulk Carriers (Given to us by JTC)
Our Solution
Unique mobile Hopper-Conveyor system that reduces the total time of discharge by half (Note: On the innoventure website, the name of our solution is given as ‘MaxMobile’)
- We developed a working prototype to validate our proposed solution; a video of our prototype (hopper-conveyor system) in action is reproduced below.
- The following poster summarises our view of the problem, our proposed solution and the business plan we put forth.
Demo of our proposed sand discharge procedure using the conveyor-hopper system that we built: