Village Supply System
This subteamsub team's primary goal is to design a distributed storage system for a village water supply. (
In the past, Six teams from CEE 4540 Fall 2013 explored options for the design of village schemes. (Background information is available)
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Our The designed system will be were based on Gufu Village in India. SolarThe designs consisted solar-powered pumps will draw that draws water from a well half a kilometer outside the village and pump 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 will restrict restricted the flow rate and ensure ensured equity, so that no house receives would receive significantly more water than any other house.
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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.
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At the conclusion of last spring semester, the team 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.
Current & Future Research
Fall 2014 Village Supply System team is divided into three sub teams: Distribution System Design, Household Infrastructure, and Pump Design. Based on what CEE 4540 Fall 2013 teams have explored, each sub team aims to come up with more applicable village supply system that shall meet the expectation of the World Bank and the Indian government's rural water and sanitation project for low income states. In order to reflect the need of Indian villages, the team will actively have conversation with our partners in India about the growth and equity targets. Also, the team will utilize resource inventories such Google Earth to incorporate objective data of the area.
The challenges of each sub-team are presented below:
Distribution System Design:
Household Infrastructure Subteam:
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