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By Alyse Harper
Posted: 3/16/07 Section: News
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"You have treated water that has been treated to some degree but there will still be toxins and viruses in water," Poust said.
The group also created a high-density vertical hydroponic living system, which treats wastewater naturally and would provide everyone in Chicago equal opportunity for water.
The students collaboratively came up with the idea of "Eco-Towers" to be the residential living system of the future.
"We designed a modular building used for residential or any type of domestic use," Pascua, a senior in Engineering, said. "There would be segments of buildings that could house people and each segment could be stacked up to four main buildings. Each Eco-Tower ties into a central greenhouse system so that people could pay less for water bills and would also be used to keep moderate temperatures."
Each cluster of Eco-Towers would treat grey water and black water. In the team's design, the grey water is passed through a biomimetic forward osmosis membrane bioreactor, and then through the windows of the tower for ultraviolet disinfection. The disinfected grey water would be reused in the EcoTower while black water would be treated in a greenhouse with a vertical treatment train. This innovative design impressed the five judges of the contest.
Lange described the team's solution as "innovative and creative." Pascua said the team's concept could realistically be implemented in the future.
All four members of the student team received $1,250, a new IBM Thinkpad computer and were proclaimed "IBM Engineers of the Future."
"It's a pretty big honor," Pascua said. "We're just four people on a really short time frame and that's pretty much how it is in the real world, designing things on the spot and presenting it to someone you don't know. It was an exhilarating and fun experience."
The group also created a high-density vertical hydroponic living system, which treats wastewater naturally and would provide everyone in Chicago equal opportunity for water.
The students collaboratively came up with the idea of "Eco-Towers" to be the residential living system of the future.
"We designed a modular building used for residential or any type of domestic use," Pascua, a senior in Engineering, said. "There would be segments of buildings that could house people and each segment could be stacked up to four main buildings. Each Eco-Tower ties into a central greenhouse system so that people could pay less for water bills and would also be used to keep moderate temperatures."
Each cluster of Eco-Towers would treat grey water and black water. In the team's design, the grey water is passed through a biomimetic forward osmosis membrane bioreactor, and then through the windows of the tower for ultraviolet disinfection. The disinfected grey water would be reused in the EcoTower while black water would be treated in a greenhouse with a vertical treatment train. This innovative design impressed the five judges of the contest.
Lange described the team's solution as "innovative and creative." Pascua said the team's concept could realistically be implemented in the future.
All four members of the student team received $1,250, a new IBM Thinkpad computer and were proclaimed "IBM Engineers of the Future."
"It's a pretty big honor," Pascua said. "We're just four people on a really short time frame and that's pretty much how it is in the real world, designing things on the spot and presenting it to someone you don't know. It was an exhilarating and fun experience."
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LB
posted 3/16/07 @ 3:05 AM CST
Please don't ever use the phrase "based off of" again. Reading it is like being stabbed in the eye.
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