Please review the challenges below and fill out the Team Organization Survey.
Our challenges for the Spring of 2012 are designed to make it easier for new communities to adopt the AguaClara technologies. Our goals are to reduce costs, extend our designs to lower flow rates, improve our documentation, and create an AguaClara business to facilitate spread of the technologies.
We will have a renewed focus on optimizing all of our unit processes with the goal of reducing construction costs. Now that we have a zero electricity filtration system and an expectation that we will be bringing floc blankets online later this year, we have an opportunity to reduce the size of our flocculator and sedimentation tank. We intend to evaluate the feasibility of using floc recycle from the floc blanket to the flocculator as a way to increase collisions in the flocculator and thus allow us to significantly decrease the flocculator residence time. Do you know of any research on floc recycle for drinking water treatment?
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 (pipe flocculator with obstacles) and filtration (filter in a pipe).
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We realize that we need a finance model that is as innovative as our technology. We will be exploring models for having communities pay back short term loans to reduce dependency on donor funds. Our effort to reduce costs is another part of this strategy.
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Team Name | Lyx Zip | Advisor | Type of Research | Specialization | Resources | Location | Comments | Students | |
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Monroe | Programming | CS |
| Computer lab |
| 2 | |||
Wiki Organizing/Crowd Sourcing | Monroe |
| CS, confluence |
| Computer lab |
| 1 | ||
Rachel |
| creative writing, graphic design |
| Computer lab |
| 3 |
Research team challenges
Mickey | Lab Research | 4540 | Process Controller | 160 R |
| 3 | ||||||||
Mickey | Lab Research | 4540 | Process Controller | #2 R |
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Team Name | Advisor | Type of Research | Specialization | Resources | Location | Comments | Students | |||||||
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Mickey | Lab Research | 4540 | Process Controller | #2 R and 160 R | EPA P3 I in Dec. 2011 | Project lab |
| 3 5 | ||||||
Mickey | Design/FabricationFabricate/Lab testing | 4540/Systems | wet bench/shop | Project Lab |
| 4 6 | ||||||||
Mickey | Lit Review/ Design/Fabricate/Lab Research | 3310/4540 | shop/ Process Controller sump pump/water tank tanks | Project Lab Hydraulic Test Facility | Prototype in Honduras in Jan. summer 2012 | 4 | ||||||||
Karen | Design/Fabricate | 4540 | Process Controller sump pump/water tanks | Project Lab Hydraulic Test Facility |
| 3 | ||||||||
Karen | Fabricate/Test | 3310 | Process Controller sump pump/water tanks | Project Lab Hydraulic Test Facility |
| 0 | ||||||||
Mickey | Lab Research/Fabrication Fabricate | 4540 | Process Controller | #2 L | EPA P3 II in April 2012 | 3 | ||||||||
Mickey | Lit Review/Fabrication |
| dry bench/shop | Project Lab |
| 2 | ||||||||
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Karen | Lab Research | 4540 | Process Controller | #1 R L end |
| 2 | 3 | |||||||
Matt/Karen | Lab Research | 4540 | Process Controller | #1 160 L end |
| 3 4 | ||||||||
Linear Chemical Dose Controller | Karen Lab Research | Fabricate/Document | 3310/4540 | wet bench/shop | Project Lab |
| 2 3 | |||||||
Karen | Lab Research/Fabricate | 3310 | wet bench/shop | Project Lab |
| 3 | ||||||||
Karen | Lit Review/Feedback from Honduras Fabricate/Document | Documentation/AutoCAD |
| #1 L of end near sink | EPA P3 I in Dec. 2011 | 2 | Matt | Lab Research | 4540 | Process Controller | 160 L
Admin team challenges | Lyx Zip |
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Prof. Hover | Lit Review/Mathcad/AutoCAD | Structures |
| Library/Bovay? |
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Monroe | Programming | CS | Len/Drew | AutoCAD/Mathcad | 4540/Systems |
| Computer lab |
| 2 1 | |||||
Prof. Lion | Lit Review/Design | Systems |
| Computer lab |
| 1 | ||||||||
Julia |
| creative writing, graphic design |
| Prof. Lion | Lit Review | 4540/Systems |
| Computer lab |
| 2 3 |
Design team challenges (
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Tori Klug)
The design team will need 5-8 students who are willing to specialize in creating the Mathcad code to design and draw the AguaClara facilities, design a new low flow facility, add code to optimize the number of sedimentation tanks and bays, and develop new top level code for web-based distribution of custom components. A process selection guide coded in Mathcad based on turbidity is also needed.
The design team challenges are available in a separate google doc.
The source file for the tables is Challenges Spring 2012.xlsx.