Challenges for (semester)

Subteam Leader: h3. Sarah Long/Colette Kopon

Number of team members needed: h3. max 3

Important team member skills:

• Fluid Dynamics

Challenges

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• documenting events
• possibly setting up a video recording system to watch floc blanket formation etc.

System

• make Make the system more robustsome sort of holder or structure for the flocculator
  1. Improve the tube settler connection
  2. Stabilize the tube flocculators

Experiments

• Jet dissipation
  1. Run experiments using a mesh with 1 cm diameter holes
  2. Run fluid mechanics experiments to determine the rate of jet dissipation with the cone

• Tube spacings
  -varying 1. Vary flow rates
  -varying floc blanket depth
  -alum dosage?with each tube size
  2. Varying Floc blanket height
  3. Vary alum dosage

Process controller

• Use process control incremental method for varying flowrates with each tube spacing
• Set up a system that allows comments to be made without collecting data twice in process controller
• Develop some sort of video recording system to monitor floc blanket growth