INTRODUCTION

Schematic diagram of dry-wet-Dry cleaning

machine

Households of today are becoming smarter and more automated. Home automation delivers
convenience and creates more time for people. However, a growth is predicted and the
adoption of domestic robots is evolving. Several robotic vacuum cleaners are available on the
market but only few ones implement wet cleaning of floors.

The developed concept carries a dry cleaning mechanism in the front and a wet cleaning
mechanism in the back. First dust particles are suctioned, afterwards clean water is applied to
a rotating cylindrical brush that mops the floor and lastly the floor is dried by warm air.

The purpose of the project is to implement a dry wet dry cleaning system. The system
requires to:
1. Remove the debris and large particles from the floor.
2. Wet clean the floor with fresh water.
3. Remove the dirty water and leave the floor as dry as possible.
This type of product must enhance the convenience for the user using it while providing them
with a proper cleaning result.
This type of product must enhance the convenience for the user using it while providing them
with a proper cleaning result
Its study can be divided into three parts:
1. Suction Cleaning
2. Mopping
3. Drying the floor
Suction Cleaning:
It can be explained with sipping soda out of a straw. The sipping creates a pressure difference
between the bottom and the top of the straw and the fluid is pushed from the high-pressure
area to the low-pressure area. Vacuum cleaners work in the same manner, since the particles
are being suctioned due to the pressure difference.
They work on the Bernoullis principle

Where:
p is pressure at a specific point,
is density (constant all over the fluid),
V is fluid flow speed at the specified point,
g is the acceleration due to gravity,

z is the elevation level.

The main components that vacuum cleaners consist of
are: an intake port, an exhaust port, an electric motor, a
fan, a filter and a dust compartment (See Figure 2.3).
When the motor
that is attached to the fan creates the wanted pressure drop at the exhaust port the ambient air
is pushed into the vacuum cleaner through the intake port and the particles are suctioned into
the dust compartment. The filter contains holes, which are small enough to stop the particles,
but large enough to let the air go through. The dirty air is filtered and flows through the
exhaust port.

What determines the suction power is the

power of the fan, the shape of the air
passageway and the size of the intake ports
opening. The fan generates the pressure
difference, but if the air passageway
contains obstacles that block the path the
resistance will result in reduced suction
power due to reduced air speed. The
resistance can be a consequence of a full
dust bag or a poorly designed passageway.
The airflow rate (litre/second) that the fan
generates is constant, which means that the amount of air that passes through per unit of time
is constant. However, the air speed varies throughout the system and with a smaller nozzle
size the speed can be increased at the intake port. The increased airspeed provides a pressure
drop, due to the Bernoulli equation, which results in a greater suction power.
Mopping
Mopping is the process of washing the floor with a mop in order to make it clean.
This will be done after suction cleaning is done on that part of the floor.
A powerful but low rpm motor attached to a circular pad through a shaft on which the
scrubber brush would be attached will mop it.

The mops can be made of many kind of material like from clothes or fibres or microfibers.
The motor driving the mop will be of relatively high

The scrubber brush is circular in shape that when

rotates cleans the floor effectively.

torque but low rotation speed connected to shaft

which further drives the pad to which mop is attached.
Drying
Drying occurs due to evaporation of water by natural convection process. But if warm air
passes over the wet floor than the floor can dry in less time as compared earlier due to forced
convection.
This is achieved by cleaning and recirculating the air which was taken in by suction cleaner
during suction cleaning step. Since the suction cleaning motor runs at high rpm, therefore air
gets warm.
Thus this air directed toward the wet portion of the floor.

Advantages

Normal cleaning and mopping takes much more time, this machine reduces it to
almost half the time required earlier to clean the floor.

Cleaning and mopping machines separately would have been expensive.

Saves power

Minimises human intervention and thus reduces labour requirement.

Dries the floor quickly.

Applications

In public places like hospitals, malls and institutions where it is required to frequently
clean the floor and dry it as early as possible.

In Houses with large floor spaces.

A smaller advanced model of this type can be used to clean mirrors of cars , windows
etc.

Cost estimation
For a machine of cleaning width 12 inches and length of 24 inches following parts with their
specifications and costs are required:

2 motors @ 0.3HP and 0.5HP- Rs. 6000

220V-24V Transformer (copper wire)- Rs. 2000

Solenoid valve 24V- Rs. 1000

Water tank (2ltrs.) Rs. 500

Bin bag (5ltrs)- Rs. 500

Pad(12 inch dia.) for attaching scrubs Rs. 2000

trolley setup-Rs. 2000

Miscellaneous ( switches, wires, printout , etc.).- Rs. 5000

Total cost is estimated to be Rs. 19000/-