The Summer 2013 team developed an optimal design for the flocculator. The basic design is to have a stacked vertical coil of tubes and to use metal bars and PVC to clamp the tubing to create flow expansions which will create turbulence. Parameter | Value |
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Energy Dissipation Rate | 30 mW/kg | Collision Potential | 100 m^2/3 | Reynolds Number | 4000 | Hydraulic Residence Time | 7.5 min | Inner Diameter of Tubing | 3.18 cm | Length of Flocculator | 56.35 m | Number of Coils | 30 | Diameter of Coil | 0.614 m | Unconstricted Height | 1.125 m | Constricted Height | 1.464 m |
The team will perform experiments controlling temperature, pressure, influent turbidity and measure effluent turbidity, floc size distribtuion and pC*. Members Felice Chan Stephen Jacobs Jonathan Christensen Ana Oliveira |