SOLELY PURE

Fabrication plan

 

Calculate Cost → Order Parts → Make Prototype → Testing → Improvements/Adjustments

 

Above is a basic step by step approach to the team’s fabrication plan. Costs have beencalculated and the team has ordered the essential parts. The group also secured a battery fromProfessor Milan Simonovic that will power our system while relieving a major burden of the team’s cost.Upon the arrival of the parts, the prototype water purification system will be built soon thereafter. Thehousing will be made of polypropylene, a waterproof material perfect for the prototyping stage becauseof its general cheapness and availability. This will give the group more room for error in the creationstage. After creating the prototype, the team will run a series of tests to gauge where the prototypeneeds improvement or adjustments. The group will test the system’s pumping performance, quality ofoutput water, and vibrational/durability of the system. The sheer pumping performance is the easiest ofthe three to test. The team will simply run the system and let it pump water for a half hour and collect thepumped water in measuring containers to see if it pumps up to the expected speed and amount aftertaking into account the head loss through the pipes and, especially, the filter. The group is expecting arate of somewhere between two to three gallons per minute. After receiving results in these three areasof testing, the team will declare those areas either sufficient or not up to par. The latter case would callfor changes and improvements. However, the group does not foresee major problems.