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As a new member of the Rapid Mix Contact Chamber team I look forward to expanding my knowledge on the specific process process beyond what I learned in 4540.
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it is possible to enhance floc formation. I hope to be able to run more experiments with my team to show whether or not the contact chamber would be a useful addition or not. This This means working quickly to design a flocculator with which to test the contact chamber as well as testing various chamber dimensions
and characteristics for the highest efficiency of coagualant - particle interaction. Adding insight to how best to measure whether free coagulant is present / attaching
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It took a couple of weeks to get over the learning curve associated with the lab equipment, ProCoDA and understanding the best way to start the experiments, but we
finally started running trials using last semester's set up . We have found significant differences between our results and Fall 2016's report of the interaction between clay
and coagulant when run without a contact chamber . Next, we will be testing the contact chamber from last semester.
In addition, we discovered, after many talks with Monroe, that surface area ratios between the clay and the contact chamber greatly affect flocculation eficiency. This will be prioritized in our new designsto the chamber or flocculator walls is also a goal for this semester .