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The European Project Semester (EPS) is a one semester capstone project/internship
framework offered by the EPS providers to engineering, product design and business
undergraduates. While a student-centred project-based learning offer, EPS proposes
a unique multidisciplinary and multicultural teamwork set up to promote soft,
technical and scientific competencies. In the spring of 2016, the EPS at the Instituto
Superior de Engenharia do Porto (ISEP) welcomed a team of engineering students
who chose to develop a sustainable water desalinator, the working principle relying
on solar energy and natural temperature differences to convert saline water into fresh
water. This paper describes the team's journey, including the motivation, the solution
design process, considering the technical & scientific state of the art as well as the
potential impact in terms of ethics, sustainability and marketing, and the development
and testing of the prototype. The results obtained validate the purpose of the
developed system since a significant reduction of the salt water conductivity, to
values of the same order of magnitude of tap water, were observed. Although
improvements can be made, the desalinator prototype produced 70 ml/d of distilled
water in late spring and 7 ml/d in midwinter atmospheric conditions.
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EPS Project-based Learning Multicultural and Multidisciplinary Teamwork Water Desalination
Citation
Lies Augustyns; Maciej Pogoda; Marion Milesi; Minji Kang; Pol Valls Aguila; Abel José Duarte; Benedita Malheiro; Fernando José Ferreira; Maria Cristina Ribeiro; Manuel Silva; Paulo Ferreira; Pedro Guedes. Sustainable Desalinator - An EPS@ISEP 2016 Project, Trabalho apresentado em , In Proceedings of the 45th SEFI Annual Conference, Angra do Heroismo, 2017.