Above: Sketch visualisation of nano - pit
Approaching the design in a more organic way i have looked into the processes hearts (as seen in previous posts) pump blood through the body. Bellow is a sketch of a valve of a heart, there are sinuous cells attached to the valve, this facilitates the opening and closing of the valve through contractions of the cells.
Abstracting out the principles of the heart, bio - mimicry in the design of the nano - pit took the form of the sketch below. Waste material comes down the larger tube passes through the valve and into the first chamber to be further broken down, the middle chamber contacts creating a suction action moving the material into that chamber. the first valve opens with the contraction and closes upon the same motion moving the material into the final chamber for the constituent components to be sorted and then evacuated to the outlet for collection by robots.
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