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Fall 2008
Mid term contribution
During the begining of the semester our primary focus was determining which parameters we would use to find the lower limit on plate spacing. The first design parameter considered was the shear on the the water through the settling tubes. Colette and I developed a shear equationwhich showed us that shear was in fact no the liminting limiting factor. We next looked for materials to improve upon the previous apparatus. After discussions with Professor Weber-shirk and Matt Hurst we came up with a preliminary design and continued to explore the options for sedimentation materials. Finally the tube settlers similar to Matt Hurst's setup was decided upon and we ordered the necessary pieces. I have done several meeting minutes, but I try to deligate delegate them to both Colette and Ling so they have experience documenting on the wiki and so I can make sure we are all on the same page as far as understanding the progress aof af the project and where we are going. I also worked with Colette to update the goals page.
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As team leader I have worked to tach teach Colette Kopon and Ling Cheung how to use the wiki to look up information and document our setup and methods. I am curently currently showing them how to use process controller and I have begun showing them the basics of mathCad. I try to deligate delegate task so that they are challenging but aslo also so Ling and Colette are comfortable with the task and do not feel overwhelmed since they are both new. I have spend extra time collaborating with Matt and Ian outside of our team meetings to make progress on the setup.
Final contribution
For the remainder of the I worked on improving and trouble shooting the system. This took up a lot of time, I also worked with Ling and Colette on process controller. After the system was up and running, we worked on running experiments and collecting data. Running the experiments required a lot of time spent in the lab at first, since the system was not safe enough to run on its own. I spent time working out bugs in process controller, regulating the floc blanket, coming up with unique ways to get air out of the system, and may other small issues that came up along the way. Colette and I took turns running/monitoring the system, collecting data, and documenting observations from the experiments. Towards the end of the semester I focused on collected as much quality data as possible, and planning for experiments that will be run next semester.
Although I only wrote a few of the meeting minutes, I reviewed all of them regularly. I encouraged Ling and Colette to do the meeting minutes to make sure we were all on the same page.
For the final report I updated the design parameters section, wrote the abstract, conclusion, and future work sections. I collaborated with Colette on creating a quiz for next semester's team members. I also put together the final presentation with help from my team members.
Below are the pages I create/ significantly contributed to:
Plate Settler Spacing Spring 2009 Challenges
11.21.08 PSS minutes
11.28.08 PSS Minutes
Vc Tube Settlers
PSS QUIZ
First half of semester
9.12.08 PSS minutes
9.14.08 PSS minutes
9.15.08 PSS minutes
Plate Settler Spacing Research Summer 2008
Plate Settler Spacing Meeting Minutes Fall 2008
Spring 2008
First Half of Semester
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