Spring 2017 - Comets Create Third Place Winner

1. Apollo Follow
By SEAL Team 6

2. Team
Andrew Kislak Da Costa - Mechanical Engineer - Sophomore
Pablo Peillard - Computer Science - Junior
Ritika Srivastiana - Electrical Engineer - Freshman
Joey White-Swift - Electrical Engineer - Sophomore

3. Target
Countries on the equator, such as:
Angola, Central African Republic,
Chad, Ethiopia, Mali, Niger, Rwanda,
Somalia, Sudan Uganda, Zambia

4. Idea
A see-saw structure that holds a solar panel while filtering water through a carbon
filter and gravity.

5. Water Filtration
The filter is produced to provide clean
water that can be replaced with readily
available materials:
Sand
Rock
Charcoal

6. Solar Trackers

7. What’s new?
The solutions alone idea aren’t novel. Solar
panels are everywhere and water filtration
systems are readily available.
These systems are both expensive and
unavailable for poorer areas.

8. How to use it
The solar panels are mounted on the rotating frame, a weight is suspended from
one end, and a special waterclock is suspended from the other. As the water
empties and the container gets lighter, the panel slowly rotates.

9. Cost basis
Cost of building this is as follows ( All costs are
approximates) :
$50 – Solar Panel
$10 – wood
$0.10 – Charcoal
$3 – Hardware (misc. hooks, screws, etc)
Total: $63.10
A Solar tracker cost anywhere from $2,000 -

10. Scalable?
If given more time we plan on integrating a TI board with motorized pump to
automatically refill the dirty-water reservoir to ease the scalability of this solution.

11. Demo