Plate Settler Spacing Challenges for
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Spring 2009
Subteam Leader: Sarah Long/Colette Kopon
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Important team member skills:
- Fluid Dynamics background
Challenges
Process controller
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System
- make Make the system more robust
some 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