24-10-2014, 02:17 PM
Abstracts: The lack of clean drinking water is a problem that plagues many areas of the world today. Approximately 884 million people suffer each day from insufficient quantities of clean, drinkable water. Most of the current technologies available to combat this problem are expensive and consume too much power to be effective in rural regions of the planet. The solutions that do not consume an excess of power generally require expensive and time consuming filter maintenance. The use of chemical processing mechanisms of purification is an affordable solution, but it has been known to be hazardous if used improperly. With the idea of low cost and sustainability in mind, we plan to develop a water filtration system that will take advantage of natural energy in order to power a water purification system. Water will enter the system, where it will flow through a sediment filter and then be processed by a UV purifier. We plan to use photovoltaic technology to transform sun rays into electric potential that will be stored in a battery backup system. This battery system will power the ultraviolet purification process of the system.