10th Malaysian ChemE Car Competition 2015

The Malaysian Chem-E-Car Competition is an annual competition organized by the Institution of Engineers Malaysia (IEM). The objective of the competition is to design and construct a car that is powered with a chemical energy source that will carry a certain load to a given distance and stop.

 

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10th Malaysian Chem-e-car Competition

10th Chemecar Competition was organized by Institution of Engineers Malaysia (IEM) and hosted by Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia on 10-11th April 2015, officiated by YB Datuk Dr. Abu Bakar Muhamad Diah, Deputy Minister of MOSTI.
This time the rules and regulations have been changed to add more challenges to the participants.

Dimension of Chem-E Car  

All components of the car must fit into a shoebox (40 cm x 30 cm x 18 cm). The car may be disassembled to meet this requirement. If the judges are uncertain whether the car will fit inside the box when dissembled, they may request that the team demonstrate that they can do this.

The Ball  

A golf ball with standard dimension, dimples and weight will be placed some distance away from the Starting Line. The organizer reserves the right to choose the brand and/or color of the golf ball to be used during competition.

The Challenges  

Each team will be given TWO (2) opportunities or rounds to traverse the car to a specified distance (“Finish Line”) and hit a golf ball towards goal posts while carrying a certain load of water. The required load of water and distance of the Finish Line, which will vary in each round, will be announced prior to the start of the competition. The golf ball will be placed at the vertical center (at half of the track width or about 1.5 m from the top or bottom borders) but its horizontal position will be 1 m before the Finish Line, which will be drawn between 5 and 10 m ± 0.005 m (“range of Finish Line”) from the Starting Line. A Stopping Line will be placed 3 m after the Finish Line to allow ample distance for the car to come to a complete stop before it hits the obstacle and/or moving pass the obstacle towards the goal posts. If the car fails to stop, one of the team members must halt and remove the car from the track.

The load will be between 0 and 500 mL of water. A judge or a helper will measure the prescribed water for each team before and after each run. Teams may not add or remove any “load” (or other inert items) to adjust their vehicle weight during the runs. However, teams are allowed to adjust “fuel” or reactants used in the car’s chemical reaction.

The car will start with its front end just touching the designated Starting Line or anywhere within the launching pad. The aim of the competition is to have the car stops closest to the specified Finish Line, scores a “goal” and stays within bounds of each track. The Finish Line will be determined by the organizer within a range of 10 m from the Starting Line. An obstacle (a half-cylindrical shaped object, e.g., 2-inch PVC pipe or toilet paper roll, with length = 1 m and radius = 2.5 cm) will be placed 10 m away from the Stopping Line.

The Chem-E-Car competition field will consist of a poster board area and two tracks used for the car performance competition (FIGURE 1). The exact arrangement of the competition field will be dictated by the physical site of the host institution

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This year Faculty of Chemical Engineering UTM has sent 3 teams for the competition; Fast4, H2GO and F.Jen. After competing with 56 teams from over 20 universities and colleges, team Fast4 UTM was announced the champion for car performance and team H2GO won 8th place in poster competition. Teams Chemliners and UTP Rangers from Universiti Teknologi Petronas won 3rd and 2nd place in car competition, while team Hi-tech from Universiti Putra Malaysia won 1st place for poster competition.
Next year UTM will be the host for 11th Chemecar Competition.