Challenges Summer 2012

Please review the challenges below and fill out the Team Organization Survey.

Our challenges for the Summer of 2012 are designed to make it easier for new communities to adopt the AguaClara technologies. Our goals are to reduce costs, improve fabrications techniques, extend our designs to lower flow rates, improve our documentation, and create an AguaClara business to facilitate spread of the technologies.

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 and filtration (filter in a pipe).

We are exploring options for developing an AguaClara business to separate the implementation side from the R&D effort. Of course, the goal is to keep communication between implementation and R&D so that we can continue to improve the technologies based on feedback from the field.

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 Summer 2012.xlsx.