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While the set up was being constructed I did literature searches and wrote one of the summaries & annotated bibliographies. I have also worked hard to stay on top of my team and make sure all the assignments get finished, including individual assignments.
In the second half of the Spring semester the aeration team was disbanded and Tanya and I have joined the Sand Filter team. The aeration method was deemed a "successful failure" because we successfully determined that using aeration to decrease the DO in the water did not work fast enough. The entire experiment had many complications, some of which we were not able to resolve like the issue with the DO probe on how its readings were inconsistent, possibly due to the alternating positive and negative pressure. Tanya and I tried for a while to get this experiment to properly simulate the pipe leading into the grit chamber and the entrance into the tank but after a lot of work it was decided that we were headed down a dead end road. It is possible that the method would work in real life and to really work this experiment had to be done in full scale which is impractical. This experiment was abandoned in favor of putting more man power behind the sand filter method which shows promise.
As part of the Sand Filter team I have helped modify the experimental apparatus to include "Bob" which is our bubble chamber we used to aerate the water in the Aeration Group's experiments. I have also been involved in the experiments and the group think to fix all of our problems. I have let Haley take more of the lead now since she knows more about the current experiment since it was her sub team. We hope to have real data soon.
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