Subhani Katugampala's Individual Contribution Page

Spring 2014 Contributions

I am currently working on the Water Treatment Technology Selection Guide and Plant Cost Calculator research group. I am reviewing the guide made by previous AguaClara members and revising it to integrate with the web design. My role on the team is to research various water treatment options and to develop an accurate means to compare them. 

At this midsemester stage, I have accomplished many of the goals outlined at the beginning of the year. The development of the Water Treatment Technology Selection Guide is currently underway. Up to this point, I have managed to create a flow diagram outlining the decisions the guide will make based on user inputs. This diagram was created solely on the basis of surface water treatment and shows the logic of the program. After the completion of the surface water case of the guide, it will be expanded to include all other cases (i.e. - groundwater). In addition, the team has also decided to use HTML/PHP/mySQL as the technology platform to create the guide. We decided to use this rather than LabVIEW as it effectively creates dynamic webpages as well as provides a user-friendly interface. Now that we have made several of our important decisions, we will move on to the programming side of guide and begin to develop the back-end interface that runs according to the flow diagram. By the end of this semester, we should have coded the flow diagram and integrate it with the Plant Cost Calculator.