As the AguaClara project continues to expand, the desire to design and construct water treatment plants as efficiently and effectively as possible is becoming more relevant. The plate settlers that AguaClara is currently designing and suggesting that the communities build are relatively cheap to construct, but are extremely meticulous time intensive and complicated to assemble. This page is dedicated to an assessment of outsourcing the construction and possibly the design of the settlement systems in AguaClara water treatment plants. It takes into account economics, maintenance, durability, environmental impact, and supply chain issues.
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Figure 1. Rendering of a module of plate setter.
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Figure 1 depicts one dimension of the area of a plate settler module. The second length that the area consists of is the width of the plate settler into the page when viewing figure 1. AguaClara plate settler modules are 1 meter in width and 1 meter in length (1m x 1m). Each plate is 1 meter long, not 1 meter high.
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What does that mean-- 1 m long not 1 m high? |
The spacing between baffles is 5 cm.
Table 1. The cost of a module of plate settler.
Table 1 details the cost of a 1 square meter module of plate settler. The specific cost of a module is $298.02. At this price the cost of the Gracias plate settler system will be $9024.68.
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