Demo Plant

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

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

• Demo Plant Spring 2008 Tasks
  In this section, you will find the work plan of the Demo Plant team for Spring 2008 semester.

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

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

Future Activities

Below are some suggestions for continued research from the Spring 2008 Demo Plant team, as well as the future plans of the Summer 2008 Demo Plant team.

• Demo Plant Future Goals