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With the Presence of a Mesh
This shows the height of the floc blanket in relation to the time the system has been on. There is a gap at the beginning of the data because there needs to be an initial accumulation of flocs in the column in order to form a blanket.
We noticed that the latter portion of the graph was linear, and created a trendline to give the data about the rate of formation. This would imply that about an hour and a half into formation, the floc blanket builds at a rate of about 0.3cm per minute, or 18.28cm per hour. It is hypothesized that during the initial hour and a half, the floc blanket is beginning to form and to compact upon itself, but only starts growing at a steady rate after this time has passed.
Without the Presence of a Mesh
This time, the experiment was run with the mesh removed, keeping everything else constant.
The slope of the trendline is different in this case. The floc blanket forms at a rate of 15.785cm per hour. This is slower than in the presence of a mesh, and therefore the full floc blanket takes about 4 hours to form, as opposed to 3.5 hoursExperiment in progress...