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The Fabrication Team was created in the Spring 2011 semester to solve some of the problems of constructing plant parts on-site in Honduras. One goal of AguaClara is to empower Hondurans to be able to build the plant, and the Fabrication team works to make that easier. |
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The Fabrication team develops fabrication methods that are useful at AguaClara construction sites, while being feasible and economical. We research the requirements for our tasks, select appropriate design criteria, and come to recommendations for plant parts and construction techniques. We integrate our ideas into the overall plant and help future plants be built more easily and at less cost, with several beneficial features.
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During the Spring 2015 Semester, the Fabrication sub-team is addressing four separate projects. The first is the development is the testing of the weir system, which is oriented towards use in the plant as a way to adjust flow rate through the plant. The development of the weir system and the creation of a scale model were the biggest accomplishments of last semester's Fabrication team. Along with this project, the Fabrication is designing a large-float valve to be used to join and regulate flow from the storage tank to the first main tank in the Aguaclara plant. In addition, the team is looking to create a DOM sensor and a floc hopper probe to be used in Aguaclara plants.
The DOM sensor may measure absorbance of a long wavelength (perhaps red) and a short wavelength (blue or UV). The absorbance of the long wavelength light will be a measure of the absorbance due to suspended solids. The absorbance of the short wavelength light will be a measure of the absorbance due to suspended solids plus DOM. The absorbance due to DOM can thus be obtained by subtracting the absorbance of the long wavelength from the absorbance of the short wavelength.
For the Spring 2016 semester, the Fabrication subteam has four main objectives. The first is to redesign the OStaRS. In addition, the team will be further refining the design of the floc hopper probe. The team will also be redesigning the constant head tank to improve chlorine resistance of the tank and to accommodate the larger float valve. Testing of a low cost turbidimeter will also be conducted.
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Team MembersAndres Larraza Stephen Galdi Garet Jancich Steve Love Kwabena Nimo Serena Takada Subhani Katugampala Valerie Shao Anna Doyle Miguel Castellanos Mengqi JiangNatalie Mottl
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The Fabrication Team was created in the Spring 2011 semester to solve some of the problems of constructing plant parts on-site in Honduras. One goal of AguaClara is to empower Hondurans to be able to build the plant, and the Fabrication team works to make that easier. |
