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This is my first semester with AguaClara, and I am very excited to be a part of this team. As a first semester freshman and a prospective ChemE major, I hope to learn what it is truly like to think as an engineer. For me, this semester with AguaClara entails my first experience with laboratory research and hands-on design. My goal for this semester is to learn everything I can from my AFB subteam friends about Anaerobic Fluidized Beds, water filtration, and processes which are essential to Chemical Engineering along the way. While simultaneously learning, I hope to contribute specifically to the mechanical problems with AguaClara's current AFB design; these problems include the clogging of biomass, reactor geometry, headloss, washout, and fluidization.
Came up with the design for the winding declogging mechanism as a solution for the clogging granules problem in the AFB reactors. Contributed to the implementation of such a design using the rotating mechanism of a peristaltic pump.