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Fall 2010 Contributions
I spent time this semester working with the Foam Filtration Team once again. This time, we focused our efforts on designing a point-of-use foam filtration unit.
My part consisted of designing the middle of the unit, the foam filtration body itself. The design focused on a filtration unit that consisted of a polyvinyl chloride (pvc) pipe with a diameter that varied based on the needed volume of filtered water. Foam was to rest be supported at the bottom of the filter column on by a screen. Additionally, one orifice would be drilled into the top and bottom of the column to let water enter and exit the filtration unit respectively. The orifices were designed so that the flow through the filter would be constant (meaning that the inlet flow is would be equivalent to the exit flow). The clean After leaving the column, the filtered water would then be chlorinated and sent to a distribution tank.
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