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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.  

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Value

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*.

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Felice Chan
Stephen Jacobs
Jonathan Christensen
Ana Oliveira

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