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The document describes the design process of a water filtration system. The initial plan was to use a plastic bottle, clean sand, fine gravel, charcoal and a coffee filter. After testing different designs and materials, improvements were made by substituting cotton buds for the coffee filter and changing the layer order. The final design placed gravel on top of the sand and successfully filtered dirt and impurities from water, though boiling was still recommended for complete purification. The process involved researching ideas, planning, testing designs, analyzing results, and improving the design through iterative testing of new materials and configurations.

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The document describes the design process of a water filtration system. The initial plan was to use a plastic bottle, clean sand, fine gravel, charcoal and a coffee filter. After testing different designs and materials, improvements were made by substituting cotton buds for the coffee filter and changing the layer order. The final design placed gravel on top of the sand and successfully filtered dirt and impurities from water, though boiling was still recommended for complete purification. The process involved researching ideas, planning, testing designs, analyzing results, and improving the design through iterative testing of new materials and configurations.

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WATER FILTRATION SYSTEM DESIGN

PROCESSES
Imagine: What were the ideas?
Ask: What is the issue, and what design can After some research and reflecting, the goal was to
solve it? design a water filtration system which could potentially
The issue in this case is the lack of clean purify and filter the dangerous things out of water to
water in third world countries. Through make it clean (WeTheCurious, 2015).
discussions as a team and further studies,
ideas were thrown around based on how a Create: What did the design look like when it began to
design can be created to fix the need of clean be assembled?
water. Assembling the design started with cutting the plastic
bottle and experimenting with each layer to see how
Plan: What was the plan for the design? much of each component (product) was needed for the
The initial plan was to use a plastic bottle, filter to function. First, a coffee filter, charcoal, clean sand
clean sand, fine gravel, charcoal and a and fine gravel were used. As the filter with these
coffee filter. The desired design was drawn components was tested, it was found that the water was
to show the planning of the water filter not as clear and pure as predicted (Figure 2). According to
(Figure 1). Michaud (2020), sand can be substituted for sponges and
gravel for rice, but after testing this, the water was still
not properly filtrated (Figure 3).

Figure 3
Figure 1 Figure 2

Improve: What improvements were made to better the design?


After testing the sponges and rice theory found online, unfortunately the outcome was
unsuccessful. The initial materials, coffee filter, charcoal, clean sand and fine gravel, were retested,
but instead of the coffee filter, cotton buds were the substitution. Although the coffee filter has a
smaller pore size than the cotton buds, after testing, it was found that the water was overflowing
and dripping down the side of the coffee filter, meaning that some of the first water was not
properly going through the filter (Anderburg, 2016). Therefore the coffee filter was substituted by
cotton buds, but this still did not purify the water completely, so more and more trials were done
to receive a better outcome. The layers were switched and instead of the sand being the last layer,
the gravel was put on top (Figure 4).

After the changes and improvements were made the outcome was up to the aimed standard.
Multiple theories were testes and corrections were made after errors occurred which led to
creating a design which purified water. For example, vinegar was addd to the dirty water solution
to test whether the filter would filter our the smell, but the results came back negative, and to
further remove the smell, the solution would need to be boiled as vinegar and water have Figure 4:
different boiling points (Buddies, 2016). This was the final design
of the water filtration
Although the water filtration system removed physical dirt and impurities from the water, the final system
design still suggests to boil the water after running it through the water filter as once it is boiled, it
removes the final impurities and makes it completely okay to drink (WeTheCurious, 2015). Other
ways which could further purify the water is by using chlorine or iodine tablets or even Uv filtration
(Schroth , Lanfair & Ambulkar, 2018).
References:

We The Curious. (2015). How To Make a Water Filter. Retrieved 7 November from https://youtu.be/-c1xM2hhfNI

Michaud, K. (2020). Homemade Water Filter Science Project. Retrieved 7 November from
https://science.lovetoknow.com/science-fair-projects/homemade-water-filter-science-project

Anderburg, J. (2016). How to Filter and Purify Water for Travelling, Camping, and Survival. Retrieved 8 November
from https://www.artofmanliness.com/articles/filter-purify-water-traveling-camping-survival/

Schroth, S.T., Lanfair, J.K. & Ambulkar, A. (2018). Water Purification. Retrieved from
https://www.britannica.com/topic/water-purification

Science Buddies. (2016). Separation by Distillation. Retrieved November 8 from


https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/separation-by-distillation/

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