(33f) Solar Desalination Project as Integrator Element in an Engineering Multidisciplinary Project

This job is a multidisciplinary project that involve elements of  chemical, environmental and mechanical engineering. The goal of this research is using solar energy to obtain water potable, and integrate several subjets of engineering curricula.

Elements of thermodynamics, material balance, electronics, alternative energy, legislation, water treatments, among others have been used develop the investigation

This project is based on the manufacture of a dome that allows the collection of water with zero ppm of salt which means that it is fit for human consumption. The idea is obtain it from seawater which contains 30000 to 40000 ppm. To get this goal is necessary to design different prototypes, which have a priority system efficiency and manufacturing cost, other important aspects are the easy implementation and cost-effectiveness that would have to implement that component near the coast to provide drinking water to populations that are in rural areas of Colombia. As a first step to begin the project, we conducted a distillation through a hot plate sy analytics, whose main result was outstanding efficiency, although the losses were higher leave the system as for example in the cooling system use of water to cool vs the pure water obtained  had a relationship almost 88948.8054ml to 68 ml. From this we deduced that left many losses in the system cooling system and spending power, existing or being able to apply another type of energy source.