Mechanical Design

Engineering Design and Manufacturing of Water Purification Unit Using RO.

  1. Feasibility - Mechanical: Need and Cost
  2. Feasibility - Chemical: Need and Cost
  3. Concept Design: Capacity, Standard Sizes, Quality of Potable Water, Sourcing - Local Vs. Foreign; raw materials, components, structures, assemblies and mechanisms; manufacturing facility capacity; water quality; PLC, PLA, CF, PLM, MES, after-sales service, remanufacturing, reuse, recycle, sustainability; cost per unit and efficiency of after-sales service.

3.1 Concept Generation (Mechanical with Manual Operation)

3.2 Concept Selection (Mechanical) - Trade Offs

3.3 Concept Generation (Chemical)

3.4 Concept Selection (Chemical) - Trade Offs

3.5 Standard Specifications (Raw)

4. Embodiment Design

  • 4.1 Mechanical - Component, Structure, Assembly and Mechanism - Numerical Analysis
  • 4.2 Chemical - Option 2 (Commercial PSf): RO-TFC Chemical Procedure at Laboratory Scale
  • 4.3 Component Quality Targets - Mechanical and Chemical
  • 4.4 Specification (near firm)

5. Detail Design

Analysis of Standard RO Units - selected specifications/models; mechanical analysis such as vibration, noise, ergonomics and anthropometry; chemical analysis such as regional water quality, RO membrane performance, integrity under non-standard pump use, and unit leakage analysis.

6. Cost of Design

7. Prototyping

Cost Factor / Virtual Twining [Cost]

8. Pilot Production

Sourcing Supply Chain, Mechanical Production Parameters, Chemical Production Parameters [Cost]

9. Production for Market

Regionally customized standard models with different capacity and performance for arid regions, cultivatable land water sources, flood water, and well water; feasibility of a chain of distributors.

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