Team:UFRGS Brazil/Hardware

Hardware

Hardware

Our project is based on building up a system that contains bacteria that degrades glyphosate from water. So we construct the idea of a filter. It started as a floating filter (here we came up with the name GlyFloat), but we changed it and the main reasons are described here [link hp]

Looking for corroboration of our idea, we talked and started working with the Professor Maria Cristina de Almeida Silva, from Hidraulic Research Institute of UFRGS. She recommended us the books she used to study about sewage treatment wondering if we could design something analog to it. Based on Jordão&Pessoa - Tratamento de Esgoto Doméstico (Domestic Sewage Treatment, free translation), we created the final prototype. It is described in the sections below.

The final prototype is not anymore used in rivers, but, as we want to PREVENT the water contamination by glyphosate, we are acting BEFORE it reaches the fresh water: we created a filter to remediate the agrochemical when it soon runs off the soil. It is adapted to farms with drainage systems that drives the drained water to nature again, but now, with GlyFloat, without causing impact.