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In an optimized plant design, we would like to be able to manipulate geometry to reduce the required plan area. The best design would take advantage of placing the filter material in a vertical direction, with water flowing through the filter horizontally. Therefore, it is necessary to determine the filtering capacity of the foam material while in a vertical position, with water flowing through the column horizontally. To do this, we used the same experimental set up, and simply rotated the filter column onto its side. 
Figure 1: Horizontal Filtration Experimental Setup
Experiment 1
Figure 2: Horizontal Filtration Experiment pC* vs Time
Figure 3: Vertical Filtration Experiment pC* vs Time
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