Background

      Many developing nations have difficulties providing a sufficient amount of clean water for its inhabitants. The mission of this group is to develop a distillation device that utilizes the collection of evaporation to produce fresh water. The group plans to improve past solar stills by increasing the rate of evaporation. Evaporation can be promoted by increasing the energy retained by the device from the sun, concentrating the rays of the sun, and lowering the boiling point of the water. A prototype of the device will be produced and will be used to conduct testing on the efficiency of the groups design. At the conclusion of this course, the group will have produced a prototype, a blog chronicling the progress of the project, a lab notebook showing the design process, and a final report detailing the completed project. Figure 1 displays the idea behind the Team Clean Water Solar Still.

Figure 1: Diagram of Team Clean Water Solar Still