Carrie Smith's Individual Contribution Page

Fall Semester Contributions

This fall, I and my teammate Jenny Guan are continuing work on foam filter for deployment in Spring 2013. This device is intended for small communities such as a school.  

Our tasks for this semester include the following:

1. Add a chemical dose controller for coagulant and chlorine to the filtration system. 

2. Communicate with Agua Para el Pueblo about the best method to deploy the technology. 

3. Find a correlation between NTUs and time to breakthrough/overflow. 

4. Find a way to run the filter without electricity. 

5. Create a user manual in Spanish

The tasks in bold are ones that are still in progress. 

Thus far, we have been able to create a chemical dose controller, have raised our tank up to allow the filter to run without electricity, and have created a Secchi disk to measure the turbidity easily.