This freshman design project intends to create a solar powered water filtration system using the technique of distillation followed by a small filter, probably a sieve, to ensure clean water. We intend to design this apparatus in an abstract manner but also build a small scale model using a parabolic mirror to concentrate sunlight towards a conductive metal pot that boils the water and a tube, made of heating duct, that leads the water vapor into a smaller container with another filter. If we are successful, this system should be feasible using only solar energy and produce water that is more pure than the original.
The target use for this apparatus is mainly in impoverished nations near the equator, particularly in Africa, where there is an abundance of sun light and a lack of clean water. The system we create should be of use on a person to person basis at the very least if we are successful.
The final product of this project was unsuccessful in boiling water, but did manage to heat the water a reasonable amount and produce bubbling on the surface of the water. Though we were unsuccessful to create a system that boils and purifies water, the prototype was compact, portable, and easy to setup, we intended, and with minor improvements could have been a working system.
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