Participate! Runner-Up: Hydrasol
by Sean Fisher, Cincinnati, Ohio on 08.22.07
Last week, we revealed the winner for our Participate! contest, Vinay Gupta's Hexayurt Project. This week, we are profiling two more great entries, the Participate! runners-up. Yesterday, we showed you easy to assemble, 100 percent recycled plastic Forever Furniture. Today, it's Mohammed Abubakr's open-source idea to bring water desalination to the third world through solar power, the Hydrasol.
The idea is for a water desalination unit for third world countries where water purity is a major concern. The unit will work by using a parabolic solar dish to heat a focal point containing salt or brackish water to above boiling point and for the steam to then be collected as clean water. The unit does not require any mechanical pieces and is produced from recycled materials.
Mohammed is looking for help with developing his idea. Can you help? Leave a comment to help push this open-source idea along.
so... how does the accumulated salt and other solids get removed? the name has oodles of businesses and products tied to it, any further info?
Can we get a directl link to the design? I'd really like to see the details and the image is too small.
Hi, in reply to your questionne the focal point that is heated up is were the salt and solids get collected this can be unscrewed when not in use and cleaned. The project was done as part of a module whilst i was at uni an is in no way complete its still in its early stages. For any further information please contact me by e-mail bakr00@hotmail.com
Great idea! It could also be used to kill germs in dirty fresh water.
this sounds awesome! i'd love to hear more...
Nice to see it all come together Bakr. Well done! Nana
Actuallly this is a first year organic chemistry experiment. You are just distilling off the water and collecting it in another container. The remaining chemical/matter is left in the initial container.
There is a pic of one http://sciencekitinternational.com/product.asp?SPLID=SPLID02&pn=IG0024792&bhcd2=1187862071 .
The solar part comes in when heating the initial mixture. Just imagine the apparatus much larger, made of plastic and run on solar power
is there a way to see the full size of that poster image?
i'd like to be able to read it.
Hi, i will be posting a larger image soon with a description for anyone intrested. thanx
posting the larger image would be awesome!
if you've written a white paper on this that would be a plus too...!
i'd like to know how it is going to follow the sun and how the pump will be powered. it could be moved by solar power and the water could be moved siphoned by gravity.
Here the idea the water will be manually inputted into a large container (as shown in the picture) this continer is then gravity fed into the device in the centre of the solar dish.
The solar tracking will also be a manual process. As the item is for third world countries i didnt want there to be expensive mechanisms and also there is a limited amount of maintanace required.
please leave your feedback.
Thankyou