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I am looking forward to traveling to Honduras in January of 2013 to see the treatment plants in action, practice Spanish, and help with the knowledge transfer of the chemical dosing system.
Spring 2013
This semester I will be working with the full scale floc break up team. In the Fall of 2012, we did some experiments and got preliminary data to support the fact that breaking flocs could actually improve the performance of a flocculator. To test this idea my team member and I will be designing and fabricating a device that can be installed in the Atima plant down in Honduras. This device will systematically break up flocs to a desired size allowing small flocs to attach again. Once we have successfully fabricated the device in Ithaca we will communicate with Agua Para el Pueblo to carry out experiments to determine if floc break up will help. These tests will be done at full scale.