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Week 6



WEEK 6

Product Life Cycle (PLC) and Cradle-to-Cradle (C2C) Design


This week, we will put up our our idea to be applied to the PLC and C2C design.
It is to ensure that our product is environmentally sustainable and friendly.

Here are some important considerations to ensure environmental sustainability:

  • Environmental sustainability

    • Recyclability

    • Replaceability

    • Longevity

    • Modularity 

    • Dematerialization  

    • Non-toxic alternatives


Our product is made of many other equipment and instruments such as pumps, compressors and pipes,
the particular instrument in which the success of our idea relies on is the algae. The algae is very important
as it is what will carry out the desalination.

Here is our product life cycle:


Cradle 2 Cradle Design:

1. Use of renewable energies
The algae is not powered by electricity to operate. Instead, just like any other plants, algae photosynthesize to live. So they use solar energy to grow.

2. Nutrients become nutrients again
The algae that once provide water to living beings shall once again provide sustenance to other living beings after its demise. Once the algae can no longer sustain the desalination process, it can then be disposed to be converted to either fertilizer or fish feed.








Comments

  1. Chua Poh Hui20 June 2021 at 19:09

    A penny for your thought: How was the analogy/ comparison between living things and PLC troubling? :)

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