Our team’s objective was to provide clean and potable drinking water for individuals in need, and this involved designing a mechanism capable of extracting and purifying readily-available moisture in the environment. My team and I decided on integrating a variety of different water-harvesting components into the final design, as we hoped this would maximize the mechanism’s performance and water harvesting capabilities. Our team’s project was implemented in a number of sequential steps, starting with the problem statement and engineering requirements for the mechanism and followed by research on pre-existing and commercially available water-harvesting devices and initial concept ideas. We conducted a thorough analysis on our preliminary designs, and selected the components from each that we felt were most cost-effective and energy-efficient at extracting moisture from the air. We then finalized our concept design and build a physical prototype, and developed strategies for improving the mechanism based on the problems and difficulties we had encountered in our physical model.
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