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The town of Gracias will be the largest design completed my by the AguaClara team. Because of the large flow rate 1600gal/min, it was decided to build two plants to be constructed side by side, with each plant handling 800 gal/min. In order to create the smallest footprint for the plant, it was designed to have three sedimentation tanks and each tank will be 3 times the width of the lamella materialThe Gracias Plant will be the first AguaClara plant to have a flocculator built based on the energy dissipation theory of floc formation. Gracias is also the first plant to have sedimentation tanks with multiple sedimentation bays in a single sedimentation tank. In past designs the sedimentation tank was designed to have a set width of the same as one sheet of lamella. Three designs have been compiled having widths 2, 3, and 4 times as wide as one lamella sheet.
Design Assumptions
The final details majority of the Gracias design is still under review, but the final design and drawings and explanations will be posted here upon completion.
Design Assumptions
Design Specifics
The following spreadsheet details the specifics and dimensions of the proposed design.
assumptions made for this design were the same as in past designs, the only different assumptions made were in regard to the theory change made in the floc tank.
Design Specifics
The three designs compiled for Gracias can be seen below.
Plant Drawings
The AutoCAD code is still under review and thus accurate plant drawings will be posted as soon as they are available.
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