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Welcome to UASB! We are redesigning Upflow Anaerobic Sludge Blanket (UASB) wastewater treatment systems to be cheaper, simpler to fabricate, and easy to implement to provide affordable wastewater treatment across the world. For more information, read our research reports or see our latest poster presentation from the 2018 NEGSWS conference.
Check out a Onshape model of our proposed UASB here and a model of the UASB that was built Summer 2019 here.
Camden Wehrle (cw566@cornell.edu)
Alexander Fitenko (anf44@cornell.edu)
David Rha (dgr79@cornell.edu)
Kaitlyn Canivel (kgc44@cornell.edu)
The Upflow Anaerobic Sludge Blanket (UASB) team has been designing, fabricating, and testing a gravity-powered wastewater treatment system for communities seeking an alternative to releasing waste directly into streams and rivers. Having utilized a large scale reactor at the Ithaca Wastewater Treatment Facility for the past few years, the team will now be focusing on developing lab-scale UASB reactors and researching ways to utilize the methane byproducts.
Note: The history of the team goes back as far as 2013; however, the current state of the team involves work done from Spring 2017 onwards. More information on lab scale research can be located on the AguaClara Google Drive both under "Active Subteams" and "Archived Subteams."
Symposium Presentation Recording
Symposium Presentation Recording
Symposium Presentation Recording
Report 1 Draft Note that this report is incomplete due to the covid19 pandemic
2019 TechConnect Conference Poster
UASB Design Final Presentation: Video and Google Slides
UASB Design Symposium Presentation
UASB Research Final Presentation: Video and Google Slides
UASB Research Symposium Presentation
Final Presentation: Video and Slides
Gates Foundation Grant Proposal
Final Report
UASB Design Manual
UASB Fabrication Manual
Final Presentation Symposium Presentation
Final Report
EPA Phase II Proposal
UASB Design Manual
Final Presentation
Symposium Presentation
Note: The UASB team began implementing GitHub in Fall 2017. All documentation was created in Jupyter Notebook files that can be found in the UASB repository under "Jupyter Notebook files"
Final Presentation
Symposium Presentation
Final Report
Final Presentation
Lab-Scale UASB Operational Manual
EPA P3 Phase I Proposal
Final Report
Final Presentation
Symposium Presentation