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I will be working with the EStaRS semester this semester. The team will be working to design a system to measure headloss in the filter during forward wash and find a way indicate if the bed if fluidized during backwash. At this point in the semester, a manometer system has been set up to indicate headloss in the entire tank and a way to measure fluildization in the sand layer. The rest of the semester, we will be researching the relationships within our data collection and implement our findings into the field. The team will also continue to test the filter's performance while running with PACL and clay.
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