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Spring 2009 Minutes
2.27.09
Working Group: 1
(this is all last weeks stuff. update for this week)
Accomplishments
- Added floc blanket control valve and extended outlet into column to control height.
- Extended bubble trap tube.
- Rotated sedimentation tubes 90 degrees.
- Completed revision of semester goals
- Met with Monroe to improve system design and dicuss experiments.
Metrics
- Kellie updated the mathcad file to include calculations of flow rates based on our Vc range
Outcomes
- Need to update process control to include incrementation and a new state to change flow rates
- Need to order new tubes with larger diameters
Issues
- Process Controller
- Need to make a schedule to moniter the system
- Camera?
Accomplishments
- Began automating the system using the increment method in Process controller
- Recoded the process controller program for floc blanket and effluent flow rate variation
- Ran the system to test floc blanket formation
- Added an elbow
- Sucessfully floc blanket height using process controller
Metrics
- None this week
Outcomes
- We are continuing to debug our process controller method to automate the varying of flow rates
- In the process of ordering a web cam to monitor floc blanket height. This will help us deterimine the time it takes to form a floc blanket.
Issues
- When increment function restarts instead of starting at the minimum flowrate it starts at the maximum flowrate.
- We need to do some test runs of the system to determine the necessary duration of each process controller state.
Any Overall Team Comments:
- Most of the week was spent working with process controller. Next week we look forward to collecting data.
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