Bilge Oily Water Separator Flow Control

Abstract

This paper offers a means of separating water from its immiscible mixture with oil present at the bilge, while preserving oil, the lower compartment of a ship, and guiding it to a waste-oil tank for purification and then reuse. In this project, by using a microcontroller that is interfaced with an oil sensor and relays, we suggest separating oil and water by electronic means and to be specific with some relays and electrical components. The bilge water collected would be free of oil and other contaminants after isolation and can be drained back into the sea without causing any disruption to the aquatic environments. The benefits provided by the proposed approach over conventional ones are also enlisted, along with a description of the frameworks commonly used for this mission. This project would comply with international regulations such as MARPOL (Sea Pollution) and MEPC (Marine Environment Protection Committee), which ban ships from directly injecting (oil-containing) water from the ship's bottom because of its unhealthy impact on the ocean's marine life.