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Introduction and Objectives

Fall 2016

Currently the The team is investigating investigated how to streamline the fabrication methods from summer 2016 and designdesigned/ explore explored alternative methods to fabricate plate settlers and flocculators and lower labor costs. 

The original request from Jacobo Nuñez in 2003 that led to the creation of the AguaClara program was for a method to treat water for Honduran villages. Over the past decade, AguaClara has made designs for towns and small cities. We have not yet succeeded in creating a low cost, climate-friendly, high performing treatment plant for villages that rely on turbid surface waters. We will create The team created a working prototype design and after preliminary testing in the AguaClara laboratory, we will turn turned it over to Agua Para el Pueblo to test it in a pilot project in Honduras. The main challenge is was to select fabrication materials and develop fabrication methods. The prefabricated AguaClara plant will treat treated approximately 1 L/s and will provide water for approximately 300 people.

Spring 2017

This semester, the team will be building upon work that was done in previous semesters to continue to improve the performance of the 1 L/s pilot plant implemented in Honduras during January 2017. The team will be focusing specifically on the development of the flocculator. The team will be designing and fabricating a tapered flocculator. The performance of the plant with the tapered flocculation system and without it will be compared to get a better grasp of which parameters are significant to future flocculator design.

Section
Members Spring 2017 Sidney Lok: sgl38@cornell
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Members Fall 2016 Felix Yang:  fyy2@cornell.edu Sean King: spk52@cornell.edu Yinghan Hua: yh696@cornell.edu Sung Min Kim: sk2795@cornell.edu  David Herrera Manzanedo: dh644@cornell.edu   Column Documents   Challenges Tasks Symposium Final Presentation Final Report Additional Documents Spring '16         Fall ' 16       Spring '17