TY - GEN
T1 - Development of a Water Purification Device
AU - Xaba, Singatha Gcinamina
AU - Tartibu, Lagouge Kwanda
AU - Mashinini, Peter Madindwa
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 IEEE.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - The world is faced with a decrease in freshwater supply and current water infrastructure is under strain to supply drinkable water. Some of the most recent designs for portable purification devices are not able to purify all the different classes of impurities. This paper presents the development of a water purification device. To achieve this, the proposed solution will purify water from a wider range of impurities including pathogens, heavy metal and volatile organic compounds. The proposed design is portable, modular, ecology-friendly and a low-cost power-consuming design. Stainless steel is the selected material for the design due to its high food grade approval. Purification is based on boiling and heat exchanger systems. It incorporates an inlet filter, activated carbon filter and outlet bio-sand filter to purify contaminated water. The research found the design to be theoretically able to remove the 4 types of impurities it was designed to. Computational Fluid Dynamics was used to conduct investigations on the effectiveness of the heat exchanger and was found to be effective.
AB - The world is faced with a decrease in freshwater supply and current water infrastructure is under strain to supply drinkable water. Some of the most recent designs for portable purification devices are not able to purify all the different classes of impurities. This paper presents the development of a water purification device. To achieve this, the proposed solution will purify water from a wider range of impurities including pathogens, heavy metal and volatile organic compounds. The proposed design is portable, modular, ecology-friendly and a low-cost power-consuming design. Stainless steel is the selected material for the design due to its high food grade approval. Purification is based on boiling and heat exchanger systems. It incorporates an inlet filter, activated carbon filter and outlet bio-sand filter to purify contaminated water. The research found the design to be theoretically able to remove the 4 types of impurities it was designed to. Computational Fluid Dynamics was used to conduct investigations on the effectiveness of the heat exchanger and was found to be effective.
KW - activated carbon filter
KW - bio-sandfilter
KW - design
KW - heat exchanger
KW - portable water purification systems
KW - volatile organic compounds
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85136205879&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ICMIMT55556.2022.9845284
DO - 10.1109/ICMIMT55556.2022.9845284
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85136205879
T3 - 2022 IEEE 13th International Conference on Mechanical and Intelligent Manufacturing Technologies, ICMIMT 2022
SP - 65
EP - 71
BT - 2022 IEEE 13th International Conference on Mechanical and Intelligent Manufacturing Technologies, ICMIMT 2022
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 13th IEEE International Conference on Mechanical and Intelligent Manufacturing Technologies, ICMIMT 2022
Y2 - 25 May 2022 through 27 May 2022
ER -
