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The Granular Sequencing Batch Reactor (GSBR) team is under the Wastewater group. As part of the Wastewater group, the GSBR team hopes to ultimately coordinate with the Upflow Anaerobic Sludge Blanket (UASB) team, in order to determine final effluent parameters and assess the effectiveness of having these two reactors in series. It Another aim of the team is to improve inoculation start-up time and examine granulation specifically–including the big question of how we get another granule from one granule. It is unknown whether this is a goal that these goals will be attained over the course of Fall 2015. For now, the two projects in mind focus is on "optimizing" the GSBR operation process–changing the anaerobic and aerobic time–and improving inoculation start-up timeobserving the impact a modified regime has on denitrification.
Tasks to Date:
-Current Task: Redo COD tests and nitrogen assays in order to observe reasonable results, Update Research Report as needed
-Trainings: Project Team Safety, Laboratory Safety, Chemical Waste Disposal, Process Controller, Media Preparation, COD Testing, Nitrate/Nitrite & Ammonia Assays
-Symposium Presentation
-Research ReportsProcess Controller Training
-Literature readings of GSBR
-Meeting notes