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mayanja andrew
Jun 01, 2021
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Team Members: (Mayanja Andrew, Alicwamu Moses, Adong Peace,Tamale Raymond Kiggundu, Ogwal Morris) Summary Brief; Access to safe drinking water and improved health is a universal human right, but globally 884 million people lack access (WHO, 2019). Different methods used to disinfect water in Ugandan refugee settlements include boiling using charcoal or firewood, solar disinfection though these are inefficient, unreliable due to high energy cost in terms of fuel and time invested. The designed system in this paper uses solar powered direct current (DC) ultraviolet light emitting diodes (UV-C LEDS) that expose pathogens to electromagnetic radiations of 100- 400nm that are absorbed by proteins, DNA and RNA damaging their structure(Yumu et al., 2016). The system consists of a raw water tank plus a bio-filtration unit where raw water is filtered at a flow rate of 10L/hour and then fed into the UV-C disinfection chamber allowing for a 3-minute contact time for sufficient exposure to intensive radiation to enable the >4-log reduction of the pathogens. Surface runoff water was used as a test sample being the worst kind of water that can be experienced with higher turbidity and great count of micro-organisms. The report further describes the design criteria, detailed design requirements accompanied by cost analysis and pricing structure, scalability and associated social impact. #healthcare #safecleanwater #SDG6 #SDG3 #SDG1 Project Writeup;
TEAM 2020-10:POINT OF USE SOLAR UV WATER DISINFECTION UNDER 
EMERGENCY SITUATIONS
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