Mine The Brine

Dave Larky Engineering, 2013-14

Liaison(s): Dave Larky
Advisor(s): Mary Cardenas
Students(s): Anthony Chung (TL-S), Olivia Warren (TL-F), Abe Cass (POM), Patrick Loftus (POM), Angela Medina

Mr. Dave Larky is a career engineer and scientist with a number of patents in color television, radar tracking and heat transmission. He is currently interested in the extraction of chemical species from the brine of desalination plants. Given current attention to desalination, this project aims to identify the various chemical species that are obtainable and minimize the cost of extracting those species. Our team designed a system to extract targeted chemical species from seawater brine. The system was simulated through computer modeling and characterized using profitability analysis.