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Spring 2014 Contributions

During Spring 2014 I was a member of the Village Source to Environment team. This team's goal is to design a distributed storage system for a village water supply based on Gufu Village in India. Solar-powered pumps will draw water from a well half a kilometer outside the village and pump it through a transmission line to the village, then through a three-tiered system of pipes to each house. Lengths of tubing at each house will restrict the flow rate and ensure equity, so that no house receives significantly more water than any other house. Our code sizes a PV array and optimizes pipe and tubing sizes based on equity constraints, local weather data, desired flow rate, and system cost. 

Summer  Summer 2012 Contributions

During the Summer of 2012, I worked on the Foam Filtration team. As a member of this team, I modified the original prototype, increasing filter column length to accomodate high head loss, adding valves to the bottom of the filter columns to facilitate the draining of wastewater while cleaning, and adding pressure sensors to record head loss accumulation. We tested the filter's ability to achieve effluent turbidity at or below the EPA standard .3 NTU, using influent turbidities ranging from 100 to 1000 NTU. Using lab turbidimeters, we recorded effluent turbidity at roughly .01 - .02 NTU, also documenting pC*, head loss, and run time.

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