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Flocculation Tank

The total volume for area of the walls of the flocculation tank depends on the width and total number of floc channels and the length of the sedimentation tank. This information, along with the user inputs and design assumptions, provides all the necessary information to calculation the tank's volume.


The total volume of concrete of the walls of the flocculation tank depends on the length of the flocculation tank, the thickness of the plant wall, the height of the flocculation tank, the number of flocculation channels, and the width of the flocculation channels. Since all of the walls in the flocculation tank are the same thickness, the volume can be easily calculated by multiplying the area of the floc walls by the thickness of the plant wall (T.PlantWall).

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The area of the floor of the flocculation tank depends on the length of the flocculation tank, the thickness of the plant wall, the number of flocculation channels, and the width of the flocculation channels. The volume of the floor of the flocculation tank is simply the product of the area and thickness of the floor: Image Removed 



The volume of the floc baffles is dependent on the width of the channels, the thickness of the baffle, the length of the baffle, and the number of baffles per channel. The number of baffles per channel is a calculated variable based on the length of the flocculation tank and the perpendicular spacing between baffles, which differs per channel. The baffles are also split between upper and lower baffles. Since the floc channel begins with a lower baffle, the equation is set-up so an odd number of baffles results in an extra lower baffle. If there are an X number of floc channels in a floc tank, the N.FlocChannelBaffles, L.FlocBaffleUpper, and L.FlocBaffleLower are X value arrays, which allow us to use a simple dot product to find the total length of the tank's baffles, rather than calculating each channel individually.

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