SCIENCE EXPERIMENT«Collecting Fog»

Members:Francisco Llerena Carlos PazBrayhant ProañoJoel Rodriguez

OBJECTIVEShow that is possible to collect fog through two experiments and also apply them in Quito

FOG COLLECTORS SYSTEMS

COLLECT THE TINY DROPS OF WATER CONDENSED IN THE AIR IN THE FORM OF FOG IS ACHIEVED BY THREE BASIC PARAMETERS:

1. SIZE OF STRANDS IN THESE NETWORKS.

2. THE SIZE OF THE GAPS BETWEEN THESE STRANDS.

3. THE TYPE OF COATING OR PAINT APPLIED TO THE STRANDS

ACCORDING TO STUDIES THE AVERAGE MESH 2 METERS BY 2 METERS, CAN COLLECT 3 CM WATER FOR

DAY, IN CONDITIONS SIMILAR TO EXISTING IN QUITO.

SO THAT WE HAVE CHOSEN THE “PÁRAMO” AND “BOSQUES ANDINOS”, AREAS WHERE THE ALTITUDE IS A FACTOR BENEFICIAL TO OUR SYSTEMS,

IMPLEMENTING NEW RESEARCH OF THE FOG COLLECTORS, SHOWING THAT 10% OR MORE COULD EXTRACT WITH A FINER MESH AND THE ADVANCED SYSTEM, OUR SYSTEM WOULD BE MORE EFFECTIVE.

IN ADDITION THE LOCATION OF COLLECTORS IS VERY IMPORTANT BECAUSE THE CLIMATE

HELP TO THE FUNCTION OF THE SYSTEM.

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ECUADOR IS A COUNTRY THAT HAS THIS METEROLOGICAL PHENOMENA SPECIALLY IN THE ¨ANDEAN REGION¨

We can find places to recollect the reasons is that this places have some factors like:

ANDEANREGION

HUMIDITYPLANTS THAT CATCH THE HUMIDITY,LIKE: FRAILEJONES

FORESTS

Collect to many water

Abundance of shrub plants that catch the humidity

The temperature between 10 and 2 grades

In the parts of cold weather, this forest grow in mountain areas where is all the time clouds

That is the reason that this places names forest of fog

¨PARAMO¨ ¨BOSQUES ANDINOS¨

ECOSYSTEMS

EXPERIMENTFOG

COLLECTOR

Beetle Shaped

There’s a beetle from the african namib desert, that hydrated itself thanks to its unique shape beetle. water mist is deposited in its wavy back and thus comes back to his mouth. the designer kitae pak has been based on this insect, to create a collector that could be used in arid areas of the world.

Shreerang Chhatre also created a water trap fog that can be used in poor areas. Chhatre explains beetle shell has portions which attract and other water repellent, so that their mouth ends. That’s because these experiment is able to be realized in almost every place with just enough fog.

The best location is in general the Andean Region. The best place in Pichincha to make this experiment is in Pululahua, because of studies and other experiments previously done, Scientifics confirm that it can be collected around 8,000 litters of water daily.

Best locationin Ecuador

EXPERIMENTFOG

COLLECTOR

Fog Chamber

This is a detector, called a cloud chamber is a sealed box inside which there is a mixture of alcohol vapor and air

Passing sufficient energy charged particles passing through the chamber (muons secondary cosmic rays , for example ) ions leads to act as nuclei of condensation of the droplets growing alcohol.

Dry ice AlcoholGlass boxBase

Materials

1- Body of the camera 2- Alcohol Reservoir 3- Base of the

chamber 4-Dry ice deposit

Structure of the experiment

1. Can use a plastic or glass bowl (provided that the joints are watertight. Approximate dimensions are 20 cm x 15 cm wide between 15 and 20 cm high.

2. Order that inside the chamber is used alcohol vapor strips of felt or the like of a few cm

Elaboration of the camera

3. To close the camera an aluminum sheet of the same dimensions is used as the base of the tank (or whatever).

4.It is very important that the chamber is airtight, which can be obtained by placing a strip of rubber strip (with a similar profile to that of figure) and attaching it to the camera body with tape

5. Finally, cover the portion of the metal sheet over the inner chamber with black tape to increase the visibility of the traces.

This is the most convenient place for the experiment because it provides very fog and cold weather is perfect for that extraction is adequate at 100%

Also in the mountains can find moors, as we know, provide a lot of fog and will be easier to study an collect.

Useful places for the experiment

We think that the weather and conditions allow the proper functioning of the experiment because as stated above it is necessary that the climate is like cold and a low temperature which is appropriate to study the fog and collect it.

Justification