A preliminary design of fish house for renew able energy research

Abstract

Design can be defined as a plan or drawing produced to show the look and function or workings of a building, garment, or other object before it is built or made. Prototype is a first or preliminary model of a product; e.g. a machine, from which other forms are developed or copied. A find design should started as a prototype so that it can be tested whether the product comply with the sets of requirement needed. In this research, a preliminary design prototype of fish house for renewable energy research was studied. Nowadays, fish farming activities is known as one of the sources of protein which is important for human being. However, such activity is costly especially in terms of operating costs which include electricity cost. The objective of this research has lead to the development of three preliminary designs, in which the characteristics of the prototype were determined. All the designs were virtually drawn into autographic drawing in AutoCAD and 30 drawing in Google Sketch·Up. The characteristics of the best and suitable design were determined using pairwise comparison chart (PCC) method and morphological chart method. The actual prototype was built aftet the best and suitable design was determined. Hollow steel bars and metal inert gas (MIG) welding were used in building and completion of the prototype. Finally, the strength of the structure was determined virtually using Pro Engineer software. The research shows that the design, prototype and the strength analysis were preliminary at best, in which detail/validation were not conducted within the time frame, however opens up new frontier to expand the current research.