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The designed system were based on Gufu Village in India. The designs consisted solar-powered pumps that draws water from a well half a kilometer outside the village and pumps it through a transmission line to the village, then through a three-tiered system of pipes to each house. Lengths of tubing at each house restricted the flow rate and ensured equity, so that no house would receive significantly more water than any other house. Past team also came up with Mathcad code that sizes a PV array and optimizes pipe and tubing sizes based on equity constraints, local weather data, desired flow rate, and system cost. At the conclusion of last spring the semester, the team teams passed on two major challenges. One is increasing system design's affordability by replacing elevated storage tank. The other is providing equitable distribution of water without meters. |
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Keeping four core standards–cost, efficiency, equity, and convenienceconvenience–in mind, the Distribution System Design team will create a generalized algorithm for supplying treated ground water to each household. The team will try to ensure to devise flexible algorithm that can easily adjust to changes in population and climate. Three main components of the design shall be pipe sizes, pressure target, and flow restriction.
Household Infrastructure Subteam:
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