Masterfoods E.E.S.

Project

With:
Freddie Stevens-Smith
Tiffany Renwick
James Farley-Nicholls
Felicity Milton
 THE DESIGN OF
A WATER CLEANING
SYSTEM.
 THE TEAM:
• Tiffany Renwick

• Freddie Stevens-
Smith

• Felicity Milton

• James Farley Nicholls

 Project brief:

• Raw materials are delivered to site in a

tanker and transferred to a fixed site. To
allow maximum recovery of materials, a
water-launched pigging system is used.
This project should design a cleaning and
recycling system for the water.
 Introduction:
Masterfoods

• a subsidiary company of Mars

• produces a range of goods from pasta sauces to

pet-food

• uncooked meats are stored and then processed

to produce canned (and pouched) goods at the
Melton Mowbray factory
the raw waste meat we deal with
• Meat arrives at Melton in varying forms

• At present, the water used comes from

River Trent

• The water is cleaned after use on site,

and then returned to Severn Trent.
This must be changed for a number
of reasons;

• ISO 4001

• COST

• INCREASED CAPACITY.
We have split up our
design into 3 stages;

• Stage 1; Coarse
separation
• Coarse separation

• Stage 2; Fine
separation

• Stage 3; Water
purification
 REQUIREMENTS:

• The water quality after treatment must be:

• pH - 7.5 to 8.5
• Turbidity - <5 ntu
• TDS - <400 ppm (when ppm=parts per
million)
• Nitrates - <50 ppm
• Free Chlorine - 1 to 3 ppm
• Iron - <2 ppm
 Stage 1
Coarse separation
 Brainstorm
Batch
Enclosed

TYPE OF
Continuous SYSTEM: Open

Single Multiple
 Type of system:
Batch Continuous
+ve Flexibility of +ve Most space
• Batch or continuous? methods efficient

+ve Most efficient +ve no extra outlay,

way of i.e. holding
treatingH20 tanks
+ve Flexibility of +ve No stagnation
volume of water

+ve creates safety -ve need holding

buffer tanks

+ve easier to -ve need to

change water/ constantly vary
filters etc. water usage.
 Pressurise
d filters

Gravel/sand
filter Multiple
filters

WAYS TO
REMOVE THE
VISIBLE MEAT
PARTICLES IN THE
WATER:

Settling
Centrifugal
separator

Coagulatio Screens
n
CENTRIFUGATION
MULTIPLE FILTERS
 Flotation
Initial scoop design
 Brush with
Rotate and
water outlets
drop
Back wash
method

Cleaning
Air blast Methods for Rotate and
the filters spray
water

Sponge the
meat off Sliding
scraper
across the
filter
 Refinements;
• The majority of this was testing, done
during our E.E.S. residential at the
University of Surrey in January.
Experimenting at Surrey;

The testing model.

Testing a combination of filters. The filters after a test run.
Testing at Surrey continued;

Testing the scoop idea.

Prototype manufacturing;
The chosen idea:
These are CAD
drawings of the
filter system
that we decided
upon:
 Stage 2
Fine separation
• AIM; to remove the smaller particles, and as
such make the water more or less colourless,
ready for the final stage of the process.

• INITIAL IDEAS; activated carbon, gravel and

sand filters, distillation, ionisation, ultra filtration
and reverse osmosis.

• CHOSEN IDEA; The chosen idea was to use

gravel and sand filters.
 Pressurise
d filters

Gravel/sand
filter Multiple
filters

WAYS TO
REMOVE THE
VISIBLE MEAT
PARTICLES IN THE
WATER:

Settling
Centrifugal
separator

Coagulatio Screens
n
 Stage 3
Water purification
• AIM; to remove most, if not all, of the
remaining bacteria, and make the water
clean enough to go back into the start of
the pigging system.

• INITIAL IDEAS; UV, ozone, chemicals,

radiation, deoxygenating and boiling.

• CHOSEN IDEA; UV radiation to remove

the bacteria.