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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Web Browser UI for ADTStacked Rapid Sand Filtration- Bench Scale | | | Monroe Mickey | Programming Lab Research | CS 4540 |
| Process Controller | 160 R Computer lab |
| 1 | 3 | |
| | Julia Mickey |
| creative writing, graphic design |
| Lab Research | 4540 | Process Controller | #2 R Computer lab |
| 3 |
Research team challenges
Team Name | Lyx Zip | Advisor | Type of Research | Specialization | Resources Location | Comments | Students | ||||||||
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| | Mickey | Lab Research | 4540 | Process Controller | #2 R and 160 R and Project lab |
| 9 3 | |||||||
| | Mickey | Design/Fabricate/Lab testing | 4540/Systems | wet bench/shop | Project Lab |
| 8 6 | |||||||
| | Mickey | Design/Fabricate/Lab Research | 3310/4540 | Process Controller sump pump/water tanks | Project Lab Hydraulic Test Facility | Prototype in Honduras summer 2012 | 4 | |||||||
| | Mickey Karen | Design/Fabricate | 4540 | Process Controller sump pump/water tanks | Project Lab Hydraulic Test Facility |
| 3 | |||||||
| | Mickey Karen | Fabricate/Test | 3310 | Process Controller sump pump/water tanks | Project Lab Hydraulic Test Facility |
| 0 | |||||||
| | Mickey | Lab Research/Fabricate | 4540 | Process Controller | #2 L | EPA P3 II in April 2012 | 4 6 | |||||||
| | Karen | Lab Research | 4540 | Process Controller | #1 L end |
| 3 | |||||||
| | Matt/Karen | Lab Research | 4540 | Process Controller | 160 L |
| 4 | |||||||
Linear Chemical Dose Controller | | | Karen | Fabricate/Document | 3310/4540 | wet bench/shop | Project Lab |
| 3 | ||||||
| | Karen | Lab Research/Fabricate | 3310 | wet bench/shop | Project Lab |
| 3 | |||||||
| | Karen | Fabricate/Document | Documentation/AutoCAD |
| #1 L end near sink |
| 2 |
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| Karen | Lab Research |
Admin team challenges | Lyx Zip |
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Monroe | Programming | CS |
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Julia |
| creative writing, graphic design |
| Computer lab |
| 3 |
| Process Controller | #1 R end |
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Design team challenges (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.