Drought and water shortages have become more and more common as the population is strangled by a shortage of available freshwater. To put this into perspective, if all the water in the world was represented by a gallon jug, only 3 ounces of the jug would be drinkable water, but of the 3 ounces, only 2 tablespoons are available to the population. The main goal of our project is to create and model a filter that mimics the Rhizophora Stylosa (The Spotted Mangrove). The spotted mangrove is able to intake saline water and output freshwater for usage in the plant.
Throughout this project, research was carried out with the purpose of graphing and modeling the impact of a mangrove-mimicking filter. The model supplies a general prediction to the efficiency, economic impact, and environmental footprint of the filter. The model includes five graphs in which each graph is a different output of the filter. The graphs also compare distillation to the proposed filter.
The filter was modeled using a series of programs which graphed the outputs and compared them to the current method of desalination. The first program is written in C and is used to output the data used in the second program. The second program is written in Python and uses the outputted data from the first program to graph the calculated values.