Weiling Xu's Individual Contribution Page

Spring 2011 Contributions

I'm a member of Water Pump Team for this semester. Along with my teammates Patrick Farnham, Micheal Liu, and Dominick Amador, we are conducting research on various pump types in order to develop an efficient, inexpensive water pump used to lift water from the Aguaclara sedimentation tank to the chemical stock tank.

Throughout the semester, along with my team, I explored the possible membrane materials for the diaphragm pump, such as the inner tube from swimming or rafting tubes, or the bladder in the basketballs or soccer balls, which will have the flexibilities. However, it's difficult to get those materials, thus we explored the other materials, and found a promising materials, Santoprene.

On the other hand, I helped to construct the pumps that we needed to test, and took pictures of what we have done.