Our challenges for the Fall of 2012 are designed to make it easier for new communities to adopt the AguaClara technologies. Our goals are to reduce costs, improve fabrications techniques, extend our designs to lower flow rates, improve our documentation, and create an AguaClara business to facilitate spread of the technologies.

During the fall semester we will be preparing to take a whole series of technologies to full scale deployment. We will be transferring these technologies to Agua Para el Pueblo over the coming months or during our annual January engineering in context trip to Honduras. The technologies that we are preparing to deploy include low flow unit processes for flocculation, sedimentation, and stacked rapid sand filtration. Foam filtration will soon be ready for testing in very small communities or as emergency water source. The ram pump also will be ready for testing in one of the AguaClara plants in January of 2013.

We will be developing our new theory of flocculation and we will be testing new designs for hydraulic flocculators.

We are exploring options for developing an AguaClara business to separate the implementation side from the R&D effort. AguaClara Inc. will provide engineering services to implementation partners who in turn provide support services to community owned AguaClara water treatment plants. Of course, the goal is to keep communication between all levels of the AguaClara organization so that we can continue to improve the technologies based on feedback from the field.

Teams

Team Name

PDF

Lyx Zip

Advisor

Type of Research

Specialization

Resources

Location

Comments

Students

Demo Plant

Heidi

fabrication

fluids, fabrication

 

B60

 

2

Foam Filtration

Casey

Lab Research/documentation

fluids, fabrication

PC

B60 B

 

3

Coagulant Management

Casey

Design/fabrication

fluids, fabrication

PC

B60 or B60 B

 

3

Laminar Tube Floc

Len

Lab Research

4540, fluids

PC, FReTA

B60 A

 

2

Floc Filtration

Len

Lab Research

fluids

PC

first floor lab

 

3

Floc Sed Optimization

Len

Lab Research

4540, fluids

PC

B60 A

 

3

Turbulent Tube Floc

Len

Lab Research

fluids, fabrication

FReTA

B60 A

Spring 2013?

3

Chemical Dose Controller

Heidi

Lab Research/documentation

fluids, fabrication

 

B60

 

3

Enclosed Stacked Rapid Sand Filtration

Heidi

Lab Research/fabrication

fluids, fabrication

HTF

B60

 

3

Ram Pump

Casey

Lab Research/fabrication

fluids, fabrication

HTF

B60

 

3

Sedimentation Tank Hydraulics

Heidi

Lab Research

fluids

PC

first floor lab

 

3

Data Processor Clean-up

Monroe

programming

Mathcad, CS student

PC

 

 

1

Smart Phone Turbidimeter

Alex

fabrication/programming

ECE, CS student

 

 

 

1

Public Relations/Outreach

Alex

website/documentation

web design, print design, CAD experience

 

 

 

3

Extra Ideas for teams

 

Lab Research/fabrication

fluids, fabrication

 

 

 

0

Design team challenges (Tori Klug) 

The design team challenges are available in a separate google doc. The design team will consist of 4-8 students that will work on these tasks individually or in pairs. Desired (but not necessary) skills: Mathcad, AutoCAD, 4540, fluids, Spanish fluency, and engineering design experience.

The source file for the tables is Challenges Fall 2012.xlsx.

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