DEKA Water Purification Technology - MIT Sloan Innovation Teams class presentation
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DEKA Water Purification MIT 15.371J Innovation Teams Final Presentation December 7 th , 2009 Shantanu Agarwal Emily Edwards Matan Mayer Mikhail Turilin design a simple system that transforms any source water Into safe drinking water
Transcript of DEKA Water Purification Technology - MIT Sloan Innovation Teams class presentation
DEKA Water PurificationMIT 15.371J Innovation Teams
Final PresentationDecember 7th, 2009
Shantanu AgarwalEmily Edwards
Matan MayerMikhail Turilin
design a simple system that transforms any source water Into safe drinking
water
Opportunity / Potential Market
Unsafe water and lack of basic sanitation cause 80% of all sickness and disease, and kill more people every year than all forms of violence, including war.
3.575 million people die each year from water-related disease.
At any given time, half of the world’s hospital beds are occupied by patients suffering from a water-related disease.
Without food a person can live for weeks, but without water you can expect to live only a few days.
The daily requirement for sanitation, bathing, and cooking needs, as well as for assuring survival, up to 20 liters per person
Drinking water needs is 3 liters per day
1 in 8 people on the planet (1 billion total) lack access to clean, safe drinking water
Statistics from water.org
DEKA and alternative technologies
Jerrycan LifeSaver bottle
Lifestraw
Kanchan Arsenic Filter
Ceramic pot filter
Pumped ReverseOsmosis System
DEKA
DEKA has high recovery rate and could be used when water is scarce
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Relative performance
Relative performance – number of liters per hour produced for each dollar invested. This dimension could be used to understand what is the cheapest way to find temporary solution for catastrophic situation. Therefore DEKA should be used when money is not an issue or long term usage is implied.
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Water recovery rate, %
DEKA filters all contaminants, insensitive to input
Effective 2Somewhat effective 1Not effective 0
ProducerLifeSaver Bottle
Jerrycan LifeStrawDEKA
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Kanchan Arsenic Filter
Ceramic Pot Filter
Reverse Osmosis
Pump
Aqua Sun PWP-V
Bacteria 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
Virus 2 2 1 2 1 1 2 2
Cysts/Spores 2 2 2 2 0 1 2 2
Organics 1 1 0 2 0 0 2 2
Inorganics 0 0 1 2 1 0 1 1
Salt 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 0
Metals 0 0 0 2 2 1 1 1
Pesticides 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 2
* DEKA + carbon filter filters all contaminants
DEKA=0.019/L
Comparison of Water Option CostsDEKA is cheaper than packaged water, but more expensive than most purification systems
DEKA’s device is ideal when:
Application Selection Methodology
Criteria Research / Dialysis
Emergency / Large-
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Under developed
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Developing world – street
vending
Developing world - tourism
Developed world –
household uses
Developed world – food
outlets
Market Size
Market Accessibility
Source Water
Quality
Price
Maintenance
Power Source
Availability
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Military use Olympics
Chosen Application Group:Quick, Large-Scale, Temporary Deployment
Price-Demand balance• Expected demand for the apparatus is much lower than required to support
the cash requirements of manufacturing the apparatus on scale• Extend use to new applications• Increase price to specific customer where it makes sense
Year 0 Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 50
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Volume- Number of units Cash Flows
Forward Plans and Risks
Go-Not Go decision tree
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