Our challenges for the Summer 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.
We will be pushing the technology to an even smaller scale with a goal of meeting the needs for communities all the way down to 100 people. That will require developing new fabrication techniques for both flocculation and filtration (filter in a pipe).
We are exploring options for developing an AguaClara business to separate the implementation side from the R&D effort. Of course, the goal is to keep communication between implementation and R&D so that we can continue to improve the technologies based on feedback from the field.
Teams
Team Name | Lyx Zip | Advisor | Type of Research | Specialization | Resources | Location | Comments | Students | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Mickey | Design/fabrication | 4540 |
| B60 B | Chris | 3 | |
| | Heidi | Design/Fabrication/Lab testing | 4540/Systems | wet bench/shop | B60 A |
| 3 | |
| | Heidi | Lab Research | 4540 | PC | 160 | Jill | 3 | |
| | Heidi | Creation of jigs and procedures for assembling plant components |
| dry bench/shop | Project Lab | Harrison | 3 | |
| | Mickey | Lab Research | 4540 | PC | B60 A L end |
| 3 | |
| | Monroe | Component selection and fabrication | hands on design |
| Project Lab | Harrison | 1 | |
| | Mickey | Lab Research | hands on design | PC | Project Lab |
| 3 | |
| | Monroe | Lit Review/Design/Fabricate | 3310 | shop/sump pump/water tank | Project Lab | Teresa/ Christine in mid July | 0 |
Design team challenges (Tori Klug)
The design team challenges are available in a separate google doc.
The source file for the tables is Challenges Summer 2012.xlsx.