Designing a new media reactor

[ben.b]

Hey! I'm an engineering student looking into designing a new (ish) type of media reactor for a project. I'm essentially looking into making the media change process quicker and easier. Going into the project, I had no prior experience with reef tanks, though I understand the plumbing and concepts. The idea is to implement a single-use non-refillable cartridge pre-stocked with different types of media (intended for 75-300gal tanks) so you can simply swap out cartridges when they're spent. The current model doesn't have a pump or timer (like a brita filter indicator) attached, but we are considering adding them to the design. Any media reactor users have any initial thoughts / questions / be willing to do to a short interview for the project? I would also be happy to hear any major complaints about media reactors in general, so we could (maybe) fix them on ours.

thanks :)

tl;dr, designing a media reactor and could use some feedback!

 

[mcarroll]

Tunze (COMLINE) and Mareineland (Magnum) have (or have had) filters that works somewhat like this....you might get some ideas from looking those up. They are refillable, of course.