Soil Drying Machine
Format
SOECS Senior Project Demonstration
Faculty Mentor Name
Kyle Watson
Faculty Mentor Department
Mechanical Engineering
Abstract/Artist Statement
Many research studies have been performed on the evaporation and water content in soil as it pertains to agricultural fields. However, this research has not been directly applied to the special topic of sport playing surfaces. In specific, baseball infields have a tendency to become too saturated to play on. Currently there are no cost and time effective methods for drying baseball infields. From a soil mechanics study done at the University of the Pacific it was shown that a gas fueled torch was the most efficient technique in drying out a soil surface. The objective for this project is to create a drying machine that will dry an inch of rain from the soil in three hours or less. This design will also be safe and easy to operate for a single user and be relatively inexpensive compared to alternative options. The motivation for this project stems from a personal interest in baseball having played in college and a lack of a product that functions adequately to prevent game delays and cancellations.
Location
School of Engineering & Computer Science
Start Date
27-4-2013 2:00 PM
End Date
27-4-2013 3:30 PM
Soil Drying Machine
School of Engineering & Computer Science
Many research studies have been performed on the evaporation and water content in soil as it pertains to agricultural fields. However, this research has not been directly applied to the special topic of sport playing surfaces. In specific, baseball infields have a tendency to become too saturated to play on. Currently there are no cost and time effective methods for drying baseball infields. From a soil mechanics study done at the University of the Pacific it was shown that a gas fueled torch was the most efficient technique in drying out a soil surface. The objective for this project is to create a drying machine that will dry an inch of rain from the soil in three hours or less. This design will also be safe and easy to operate for a single user and be relatively inexpensive compared to alternative options. The motivation for this project stems from a personal interest in baseball having played in college and a lack of a product that functions adequately to prevent game delays and cancellations.