This project continued to optimize the design of the WPI Rotary Kite Powered Water Pump. This system is intended to provide cheap and reliable access to clean drinking water for developing nations. The main results of the project include producing a desired flow rate of about 600 L/hour, implementing a kite pump frame that lowered the center of gravity and reduced height below seven feet, producing an improved kite control box with remote control capabilities, implementing a rotary spring for kite retraction, and demonstrating intended control of the kite.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Beauchemin, Christopher Earle
• Zhao, Hanqing
• Van Blarcum, Jonathan Morgan
• Bauer, Andrew James
• Munene, Obadiah Njoroge
• Draper, Alexander Paul

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-110116-141923

Advisor

• Olinger, David J.

Year

• 2016

Date created

• 2016-11-01

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Mechanical Engineering
• Aerospace Engineering

Rights statement

• In Copyright