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This team should add an experimental component to first replicate the floating floc problem and then test methods to eliminate them. The laboratory research will be the primary a new strong focus for the spring semester.
Subteam Leader: Tiffany McClaskey
Number of team members needed:
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3 total
Important team member skills:
- Programming in MathCAD
- CEE 3310 or equivalent
- Laboratory experience
Modeling Challenges
- Review program and make sure everything is correct. Especially look into the head loss calculations
- Determine the optimal hole size, number of holes, length of pipe and diameter of pipe
- Give the numbers to the guys in Honduras and have them try it
- If it works calculate fittings for any other plants having this issue, if it doesn't choose a different set up and try again
Experimental Challenges
- Design a laboratory setup to create floating flocs
- High pressure aeration to create water supersaturated with oxygen
- Hydraulic flocculation
- Sedimentation could be hydraulic flocculation followed by conventional horizontal flow sedimentation tankto easily illustrate the problem of floating flocs
- Test various methods to strip excess air from the water to eliminate floating flocs
- Sub atmospheric pressure aeration using either a high velocity zone or more likely, a zone that is above the hydraulic grade line.
- Atmospheric aeration
- Separation zone to release
CFD 3D Floc Tank Simulation Spring 2009 Challenges
Subteam Leader: Unknown
Number of team members needed: 2
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