Caspar's Individual Contribution Page

Fall 2009 Contributions

Fall 2009 Mid-Semester Contributions

I have been working on editing and adding to the Materials List in the AguaClara Design Team. So far, I have been making changes to the Materials List to accommodate the requests of the engineers in Honduras. Their feedback can be found here:

http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0Afv6wpES3UAuZGQ1dmg1Nm5fN2hrbjRxODZy&hl=en^{Image Added}

I have added equations for the area of the walls, area of the floor, volume of the walls, and volume of the floor of each the following parts of the plant: the entrance tank, the sedimentation tank, the flocculation tank, and the exit channel. I have been working closely with Josh, and we have noticed several inconsistencies in existing equations, so we are in the process of correcting these.  All of my work, including annotations, is uploaded to SourceForge on the Materials List MathCAD document. Further explanations of the equations I added or modified can be found on the Design Team Materials List Wiki:

https://confluence.cornell.edu/display/AGUACLARA/Materials+List+Design+Program^{Image Added}

After I finish adding new equations to the Materials List and correcting old ones, I plan to look through the entire design schematics to find out which supplementary materials will be necessary, such as PVC pipes, gate valves, etc. Josh and I will give the engineers in Honduras suggestions on which sizes and types of material to use for these supplementary items. After Josh and I finish the list of supplementary items, we will start on designing the chemical storage tanks. I learned how to use Mathcad and Autocad, and my group members and almost succeeded in designing a house!

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