After a few meetings in and out of the lab we decided that we are going to work on the drying process in two steps. The first step will be a bulk drying where we roughly process the wet clothing and get rid of the bulk of the water. The second step is going to involve a more precise drying. After this step the clothing should be pretty much ready to be worn. We came up with a lot of different ways that we could use for both steps. We put the different ideas in a Concept tree to make it easier for use to decide which one to use. Some ideas for the second step of the drying process are using solar heat to create a greenhouse effect, to make use of the heat of camp fire that is often available, vacuuming the clothing to decrease the boiling point of the water and in this way vaporize the water to dry clothes and spinning the clothing fast enough to make it dry.
Here are some existing ideas that were used by other engineers or designers:
This design is similar to the spin drying design that we were thinking about. It is connected to the bicycle and human powered.
This Video Shows the mechanism that our team is planning on designing for the first stage of the drying process, drying the bulk of the water. Even though it does not really serve the same purpose on this video, it is not really different from our proposed idea.
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