Demo Plant

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

What is the Demo Plant?

The Demo Plant is a miniature model of the current AguaClara plant design, designed and used for three main purposes:

• Education. We use the Demo Plant to demonstrate and prove the viability of the fundamental processes involved in a typical AguaClara treatment plant, both to individuals and organizations that would like to get involved, as well as people in the Honduras who are interested in implementing our technology.
• Outreach. We use the Demo Plant in most of our outreach activities, in order to increase awareness of our project, and demonstrate the fundamental processes involved in a typical AguaClara treatment plant. For more information about Outreach, please see the Outreach Team Page.
• Research. Starting in Fall 2007, the Demo Plant team started running experiments using the demo plant. For more information, please see our Research page.

To learn more about the work the Demo Plant Team is doing, see the pages below:

• Demo Plant Design and Construction
• Demo Plant Research

Motivation & Objective

To build realistic miniature AguaClara water treatment plants for outreach and education purposes.

Semester Research Goals

1. Finalize demo plant design, based on designs done in CEE 454.
2. Construct first demo plant.
3. Improve on design based on experience gathered from first demo plant.
4. Construct second demo plant.
5. Characterize performance characteristics of demo plant.
6. Publish scientific paper (and Wiki) on demo plant.