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Advice to Future Teams
A Guide For New Members
Welcome to the Pilot Plant! The Pilot Plant is located at Cornell University's Water Filtration Plant (map). The pilot plant is a great resource for doing real-world testing of AguaClara theoretical research.
Advice for Individuals
The first thing to do as a member of the Pilot Plant team is to familiarize yourself with several things: first and foremost, the physical plant, running the plant, Process Controller, the program used to control the variables of the plant (such as flow rate, dosing, etc.) that also logs the results of running the plant, and the Wiki for the Pilot Plant team. If you start with the last one first you will come across the aforementioned. Or just follow the links provided above to the areas of interest.All of the above information is on this wiki.
Advice for the Team
There is a great deal of work involved in carrying out successful research projects. One way to reduce this burden is to specialize. At the minimum, the team should have:
- a team leader to co-ordinate things
- a wiki specialist (who have read through the wiki carefully to avoid re-inventing the wheel and also knows how to organize the information you are putting on the wiki)
- a Process Controller person (process controller is a somewhat complicated program and getting it to run an experiment is not trivial)
- other specialists may be necessary depending on the nature of the research project