Water Filtration System

An easy to install, affordable water filter made of recycled wasted minerals designed for homes with minimal space available

Introduction

On my second year at university I made part of a group project to design an innovative and sustainable product or idea for a challenge organized by Dassault Systèmes. Our product had to be aim in one of three areas:

Sustainable cities and communities
Sustainable manufacturing
Innovative healthcare

As a team, we made the decision to focus on the first option: Sustainable cities an communities

Brainstorming

While researching for ways to make cities more sustainable, we became interested in water consumption in the UK.

The Average household uses 330 litres of water per day.

80% of wastewater generated globally is put back into the ecosystem without being treated or reused.

Also, the average UK water bill comes to £405 per year.

With these statistics we decided to work on a idea that would help households to save more on their bill by reusing more water being wasted for a more sustainable impact

One major problem is that most homes within a city are apartments with not much space available, most solutions for water recycling available on the market are too expensive, too big and requires professional installation.

The most logical solution we could process off was an efficient and compact filter to be installed on apartments

Large filter option

Filter system diagram

Solution

We decided to work on a filter that could be easily installed under the sink where the tap water would be recycled. There is not much space under the sink available, so the filter takes a forth of space under sink.There would be an extra tap available on the sink connected directly to the filter allowing easy access to the recycled water

Filter system Concept

Filtered water tap

Based off 2 daily washes of 12 litres each day, the saving cost would be of £33.42 yearly. That equals to 8% of the yearly water usage

If every residency had one of this filtration system the total saving each day would be off 121.8 million Litres

That comes to 44.5 billion litres per year

Conclusion

If I could go back to this project, I would had developed a 3D model of the filter system, as well as made a prototype. tested different filter materials to find the most filtering efficient and durable minerals. Perhaps a mechanical system to redirect the dirty water to the sewage when the reservoir were to be full of clean water.

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