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Fall 2016 Contributions
This semester, I will work worked with the StaRS filter theory subteam to convert analyze the data collected during the Spring 2016 semester into and identify relationships between various variables affecting the filter performance. Using such relationships, we will examine the hypothesis that there are formulated a hypothesis illustrating filter performance as small regions of particle removal during the filtration apparatus that travel along the filter as the previous section gets clogged. We created a capillary model on mathcad and determined that it was invalid because the calculated floc density was not reasonable. Moving forward, we identified a new model, the washer model that we believe better depicts particle filtration in the StaRS filters. Our speculations will allow us to create a model of the filter that can predict failure time given the coagulant input.