WEEK 3
HELLO, welcome back to our weekly blog!!
So this week we learned about how to solve or develop on an idea using the SCAMPER checklist. So you may be wondering what is SCAMPER checklist ?? 😮 WELL we will help you in understanding better on it😀😀
SCAMPER checklist👇👇
✅Substitute🅢: Substituting part of the process / problem / product for something else.
✅Combine🅒: Combining 2 or more parts of the problem and opportunity to achieve a different product or process or to enhance synergy
✅Adapt🅐: Which parts of the process / problem / product could be adapted to remove the problem and opportunity or think how you could change the nature of it.
✅Modify🅜: Changing part or all of the current situation , or to disarrange it in an unusual way.
✅Put to another use🅟: How you might be able to put your current solution / product / process to other purposes, or think of what you could reuse from somewhere else in order to solve your own problem and opportunity
✅Eliminate🅔: What might happen if you eliminate various parts of the product / process / problem and opportunity.
✅Reverse🅡: Think of what you would do if part of your product / process / problem and opportunity worked in reverse or done in reverse or in a different way.
We choose on the research gap, what kind of waste is more suitable to use to mass produce fuel.
This is because on earth, there are many types of waste. Many research teams all over the world have figured out ways to turn waste into fuel. But why are we still suffering from global waste? This is because people are not motivated to invest their time, money into producing fuel out of waste. The processes are too tedious and are not convenient compared to just using diesel oil. However, when we do our research, we do not receive answers on what is the most convenient way to make fuel out of waste.
Hence, we have decided to research which type of waste is the most convenient to convert into fuel in terms of cost, efficiency and usability.
We mainly used the P of SCAMPER to come up with all our ideas!!
Take a look at our IDEAS👇
IDEA 1: Using plastic waste to produce jet fuel and diesel fuel
IDEA 2: Converting waste gas to fuel
IDEA 3: Converting food waste to produce fuel
IDEA 4: Using wastewater produced by coffee mills to derive biofuel
IDEA 5: Using yard/paper waste as fuel
NOW LETS PROCEED TO IDEA ELMINATION👇
With the help of the feasibility analysis table we could eliminate our ideas to 3 ideas.
CHOSEN 3 IDEAS : Idea 2 →converting waste gas to fuel
Idea 4 → generating biofuel from coffee waste
Idea 5 → using paper waste as fuel
NOW FOR THE FINALE🚩💥
We used the COWS matrix to finalize our final idea!
Criteria - Relevance
Options - All feasible
Weightage - Contextualize
Score - Assessment
Rationale for the criterias:
cost effectiveness, converting the waste into useful fuels shall be cost viable, as our aim is to find the most suitable waste for mass production, hence when the operating costs should be kept low.
ease of fabrication, it is important as it decides the rate of fuels that can be generated from the raw materials, if the process is too complex, it becomes a problem as there is not enough supply of fuels.
availability of parts, having enough supply of the raw materials are important because we want to fully utilize the equipment and facilities that are used to generate fuels, we also want to ensure a steady supply of biofuels to the market.
sustainability, we want to make sure that the whole process is sustainable, such as lower ecological footprint than fossil fuels and its availability compared to other fuels, to ensure that the market can rely on the biofuels generated for long terms even up to years.
eco-friendly, as our aim is to utilize waste, biofuels are renewable energies and they emit a lower amount of greenhouse gases. However, it is also important that during the mass production of biofuels, the waste produced shall not be too dangerous or on a large scale which subverts our aims.
References
Ben Coxwoth. “A better way of converting coffee waste into biofuel?”. News Atlas. May 10, 2017. [online]. Available at:< https://newatlas.com/coffee-grounds-biofuel/49473/>Accessed May 12, 2021.
Coghlan, A., 2021. How to turn paper into fuel. [online] New Scientist. Available at: <https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg14920193-100-how-to-turn-paper-into-fuel/ > [Accessed 12 May 2021].
The Conversation. 2021. Explainer: why we should be turning waste into fuel. [online] Available at: <https://theconversation.com/explainer-why-we-should-be-turning-waste-into-fuel-77463 > [Accessed 12 May 2021].
Vesna Najdanovic-Visak, Florence Yee-Lam Lee, Marcia T. Tavares, Alona Armstrong,
Kinetics of extraction and in situ transesterification of oils from spent coffee grounds, Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering, Volume 5, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 2611-2616, ISSN 2213-3437.
Available at:<https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213343717301781> [Accessed 12 May 2021]
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