Felix Yang, Lilly Mendoza, Ken Rivero-Rivera
The 1 Liter per Second (LPS) Plant testing team is continuing the work done by previous semester's Pre-Fabrication team by attaching the ESTaRS to the 1LPS plant and flocculator. By doing this AguaClara will have a complete 1 LPS Plant running in the lab so that experimental data can be gathered. This data will be used to optimize and improve current designs as well as further iterations of the technology.
Sidney Lok, Sung Min Kim, Sean King
The Spring 2017 semester 1 L/s Plant Testing subteam's objectives were to improve upon the previous work done on the design of the 1 L/s pilot plant in Honduras. This semester, the primary goals of the 1 L/s Plant Testing subteam were to complete the 1 L/s plant and to design and fabricate a tapered flocculator. This tapered flocculator design would be used to decide whether tapered flocculation would improve overall water treatment in the 1 L/s plant.
David Herrera, Yinghan Hua, Sung Min Kim, Sean King, Felix Yang
Since January 2016, the Pre-Fabrication team has been experimenting with the creation of a 1 L/s water treatment plant. The Spring 2016 team successfully created a small scale version of the sedimentation tank and the Summer 2016 team fabricated a full scale plant. This full-scale plant will be shipped to Honduras in December 2016, and the goal of the Fall 2016 team is to construct an additional 1 L/s plant with a focus on streamlining and improving the production methods and accuracy. The team will focus most heavily on improving the methods of the flocculator and determining the structural integrity of the plant to confirm the validity of its design approach.
Kimberly Buhl, Claire DeVoe, Meryl Kruskopf, and Felix Yang
The goal of the Prefabrication 1 L/s team was to research, test, and provide fabrication methods to be used when constructing the 1 L/s plant design in Honduras. The team worked on an approximate 1/10th flow rate scale model to design novel geometries for a low-flow flocculator and sedimentation tank while implementing known AguaClara fluid mechanic techniques. The cost per capita associated with these plants was calcu- lated to be much lower than plants built using traditional construction methods. Recommendations on design and fabrication methods were re- layed to future teams working on full-scale plant production.
