Overview of Design
The Design Team
AguaClara Technology
Design Tool
Download Design Tool
Past Design Gallery
Design Philosophy
Why Open Source?
Overview
It has long been the vision of AguaClara to automated the design process for water treatment plants. The goal is to create a tool that allows engineers to enter certain parameters like the plant flow rate for their town and have our program deliver an AutoCAD drawing, a report describing the plant, and a materials list. With the ambitious goals our team has set to meet the Global Demand for AguaClara Technology we have made developing and testing this design tool a top priority.
The design of the AguaClara plants is governed by our Design Philosophy and our commitment to Open Source Engineering.
Team Calendar, Challenges, Meeting Details and Training Challenge
Calendar
Challenges
Design Team Reports
Automated Design Program
The Automated Design Master Program integrates all of the Design Programs in order to automatically design and draw future water treatment plants. The individual algorithm and program descriptions can be linked to from the Master Program link above.
The web based application is being built using MathCAD as the computation engine, AutoCAD for 3-D drawing, and a LabVIEW programs (see Download Design Tool) for the distributed client software that sends requests to the dedicated server software that controls MathCAD and AutoCAD using ActiveX.
Automated Design File Control
In order to create our Automated Design tool, we have created many program files that each complete specific individual components of the design. These files are continuously being updated and debugged. We have decided to use a file management system (SourceForge) to keep track of all of the program files and the version changes. Information about this software and how to use it can be found by following the link below.
SubVersion Version Control Management Software
Plant Designs
As AguaClara gets new requests for treatment plants, the design team at Cornell completes and reviews designs for the plant. A plant design includes design and construction details along with AutoCAD drawing. All of this information can be found on the design team's Plant Designs page.
Our Honduras partners compile basic information about a town requesting a plant design. This information by the design team to create the detailed designs described above. The Honduras team also records pictures and data about the construction and functioning of a particular plant. This information can be found on the Project Sites page.
Create an AguaClara Drawing
A guide on how to create AguaClara drawing is available together with an example of the way it should look like when presented to the user (see Layout 1 & Layout 2).
Design Team
Current Work
Previous Work
Work done by previous Design sub-teams can be found on the Previous Team Work Page. The work is broken down by semester as a way to document the improvements and changes made within the team over the years.
Presentations
See presentations given by past design teams.