Demo Plant

Spring 2008 team members: James Leung, Christina Campagna, Robin Zhou, Taylor Britton
Summer 2008 team members: Vanish Grover, Christina Campagna, Taylor Britton

Motivation & Objectives

The Demo Plant is a fully functional, transparent miniature AguaClara water treatment plant. It is designed and used for three main purposes:

• Education. We use the Demo Plant to demonstrate the fundamental processes involved in an AguaClara water treatment plant, to individuals and organizations that would like to get involved in the project, as well as to communities in Honduras that are interested in implementing this technology. The Demo Plant is also used to train operators of existing AguaClara water treatment plants in Honduras.
• Outreach. We use the Demo Plant in most of our outreach activities, in order to increase public awareness of the project, and to demonstrate the viability of the technology. For more information, please visit the Outreach Team page.
• Research. Since Fall 2007, the Demo Plant team has been performing experiments using the demo plant in order to find ways to improve the AguaClara technology.

Current Activities

This term the team was able to incorporate the most updated version of the dose controller into the demo plant. We were also able to test out the newly installed doser and LFOM, the results are reported in the Demo Plant Team reflection paper.(Report_Demo_Plant_Fall_2011.pdf)

Currrent work is being done to create a filtration component to be added to the end of the demonstration plant process. Also, a newly designed Sedimentation Tank is in the works to be built and incorporated into the plant. The new Sedimentation Tank will show the newly developed floc blanket that increases the efficiency of full scale Agua Clara plants. CAD drawings of oth new components have been created and depicted in the Demonstration Plant Team reflection paper. (Report_Demo_Plant_Fall_2011.pdf_)

Past Activities

• Summer 2008 Demo Plant Research
  Documentation of experiments performed during the Summer of 2008

• Demo Plant Research
  Various experiments performed using the Demo Plant are documented herein.

• Demo Plant Design & Construction
  This section documents the design and construction processes of the past and current Demo Plants.

Future Plans

•  Demo Plant Future Goals