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Although the plate settler spacing team is not directly concerned about the formation of floc blankets, we cannot ignore how they affect our system because of the effect they have on the quality of the effluent. Floc blankets form at different rates based on how the system is set up; one of the main differences we have noticed is that in the presence of a mesh, the blanket forms much more quickly.

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How confident are you that these results are significant? I think you overstate the case here given the approximately 20% difference that you report below.

Our mesh is made out of a circular piece of plastic with the same diameter as the channel with lots of holes drilled into it. These holes are about 3/4 of a centimeter in diameter, so as to not break up the flocs that we formed. The whole purpose of this mesh is to assist the water to disperse evenly coming into the sedimentation channel.

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