Portable Solar UV Water Filter

Introduction

Vigyan Ashram has designed & developed a “Portable Solar UV Water Filter” for small houses/ bungalows. Users of the manual will be able to build their own Hydroponics Structure using this manual. All the Bills of Materials (BOM) and dimensions of the systems are given in the design. We have provided design files drawn using Solidworks along with this manual. Users are suggested to read the manual carefully along with the site conditions before fabrication of the unit.

Purpose of Manual

To share standardized design of Portable UV Filter suitable for small bungalows, houses, schools and institutes.

Design to be made available online for local fabricators to build Portable UV Filter for their customers.

Product Description

This is a Portable UV Filter. This system can be deployed in the kitchen, no construction needed.

System consists of a 20L storage tank, submersible UV tube of 11 W

The proposed system is able to filter the water at a time.

Features

Portable water filter / Easy to handle
Low cost
Less maintenance / Easy cleaning
Operates on Grid and Solar Power
Low power consumption

How it works?

This filter unit is very handy to use, just follow below steps to start using this.

Open a filter cover and keep this aside, cover it with UVC tube (fragile material), take care during handling.
Pour tap water inside up to marking. ( Take care of this while selecting water source – This filter removing only bacterial content, it’s not reducing water hardness or filters muddy water)
Keep filter cover on tank, orient tube inside direction.
Now plug in the filter connection in the 230V AC socket and turn ON switch.
Keep this for next 15-20 min6.
Turn OFF switch and remove connection. Water is ready to drink.
Keep the filter ON every day for 15-20 min.

Advantages:

This filter uses UVC light radiations in bandwidth 200 to 280mm to kill pathogens inside water in a batch process. It requires around 15-20 minutes for 20 liter water.
No need to give continuous supply. Vey less electricity consumption, 11 watt / hour.
Portable unit works on solar power, for remote area users, for tribal communities.
No need for an extra tank, motor and solenoids like continuous type of filters.
Low cost, affordable to tribal, remote area peoples.
Takes very less space and is handy to use and clean.

Disadvantages:

It’s only disinfecting water by killing bacteria and viruses, it’s not reducing water hardness.
Not suitable for muddy water.

Design Parts

Designed the 20 liter water tank

11W UV tube

Water tank Cover

Wire Glance

UV tube Holder clip

image shown the Tank cover and UV tube Assembly

Tank Assembly

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