Designing a Device to Better Clean Mobile Liquid Bulk Tanks

Avalon Premium Tank Cleaning: A Division of Chemtrans Engineering, 2011-12

Liaison(s): Sarajane Williams, Arnell Maxey, Reginald Lathan
Advisor(s): Mary Cardenas
Students(s): Bryan Chow (TL-S), Julie Kraus (TL-F), David King, Allie McDonnell, Lowell Reade, Brady Sutton (S)

The Avalon Clinic team was tasked with designing and building a device to better clean the interior of mobile liquid bulk tanks by extending spinners towards the bulkheads of the tank. The team de-signed an articulating pipe that extends inside of the tank, bringing the spinners nine feet closer to each bulkhead when compared to the current process. This extension shortens the cleaning time and cleans more effectively.