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Design, Construction, And Evaluation Of A Portable Reusable Plastic Container Dumper, Kevin J. Lau
Design, Construction, And Evaluation Of A Portable Reusable Plastic Container Dumper, Kevin J. Lau
BioResource and Agricultural Engineering
This senior project discusses the design, construction, and evaluation of a portable RPC (Reusable Plastic Container) dumper. This RPC dumper is one piece of a citrus processing system to package citrus. Bee Sweet currently utilizes man power in order to dump its RPCs whereas this design will decrease the amount of man power needed to dump RPCs during high workloads.
The goal of this project was to design, construct, and test a custom fabricated RPC dumper that will decrease the number of people needed to dump RPCs and also the amount of damage on the oranges when being dumped from …
Electrical And Programmable Logic Controller Design, Construction, And Economic Analysis Of A Reusable Plastic Container Dumper, Thomas Marderosian
Electrical And Programmable Logic Controller Design, Construction, And Economic Analysis Of A Reusable Plastic Container Dumper, Thomas Marderosian
BioResource and Agricultural Engineering
This senior project discusses the electrical and programmable logic controller design, the construction, and an economic analysis of a reusable plastic container dumper. The RPC Dumper will be part of the processing of citrus fruits at Bee Sweet Citrus, Inc. This system will be a mobile and partially automated system to dump these reusable plastic containers full of citrus fruit instead of having them manually dumped.
The total bill of materials of the project totaled $11,257.05 and the RPC Dumper was able to dump four RPCs per minute.