Christina Campagna

Fall 2008 Wiki Report

This semester I have been working on the FCM Chlorine Precipitation team. I have been involved in designing our various experimental setups. I, as well as the rest of team, have done research using the emails from those in Honduras and past experiments to determine the desired flow range, concentrations of Calcium Hypochlorite solution, and other parameters for our experiments. I have performed most of the calcium carbonate settling tests and did a lot of the data analysis for those experiments. I have written the report describing the detailed procedures and results from those settling tests. I've contributed to the Restricted Flow of Hypochlorinator experiments, although Vanish and Scott took the lead in those experiments. I also spent a lot of time trying to understand the chemistry behind the precipitate forming and what (such as alkalinity) leads to an increase in precipitate formation, although Scott has the most experience with that.