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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 the semester, the 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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