Challenges for Spring 2009 Pilot Plant Team
Number of team members needed:
Team Members:
Jeff Katz
Art Shull
Eladio Lopez
Rustom Meyer
Michael Liu3 returning and 1-2 new members
Important team member skills:
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- Discover how much time it takes to form a sludge blanket.
- Can a sludge blanket form if the lamella are present? Can the lamella be designed differently so that this is possible?
- What is the best way to drain a sed tank so as to cause the least amount of distrubance and water waste. How often would this need to occur?
- What else could be done to optimize the sed tanks?
- Are the two sed tanks equal? Is the tank turbidity comparable? Are flocs remaining equally intact from the flocculator to the tanks?