Yang Pei, Erica Marroquin, Alicia Barrientos, Manuel Queijeiro
Abstract:
The 1 liter per second AguaClara water treatment plant was created in the summer of 2016 for small villages where it was not cost-effective to build full-sized plants. It was the culmination of 10 years of progress in AguaClara and featured new technology, including a crimped pipe flocculator and a free-standing sedimentation tank constructed from corrugated sewer pipe. The Fall 2016 team began the semester with performance checks; the team tested for leakages, dosing apparatus precision, floc blanket formation, and turbidity removal. After the team reached the conclusion of a good performance and shipped it satisfactorily to Honduras, where the work will be continued. The flocculator was re-designed to improve the existing one and test were performed to check that it gave the expected head loss. Finally, it was built.
