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The inlet slopes program begins by designing the rough dimensions of the sedimentation tank and then moves on to design the trapezoidally trapezoidal shaped channel located at the bottom of the tank. This channel uniformly distributes water to the entire bottom of the sedimentation tank creating a uniform flow of water up through the sedimentation tank. This design was redesign of the previous set up that had water being delivered to the bottom of the sedimentation tank through a network of pvc pipes designed to serve the same purpose. This new design will allow for tanks to be shallower and thus more economical.
The first step is to determine the flow rate through one sedimentation tank. The total plant flow rate (Q.Plant) is split evenly through all sedimentation tanks. The number of sedimentation tanks to be constructed is determined by the user.
Q.Sed
After determining the flow rate of one sedimentation tank. The first step is to determine the necessary height of the port introducing water to the sedimentation tank. This port has to be designed to not breakup the flocs created in the flocculator, thus the energy dissipation of the port has to be less than that of the end of the flocculator. Determining this B.SedPort value requires an iterative process because of an interdependence between the width of the inlet slope and width of the space between ports, which is assumed to be the same as the height of the port, are interdependent.