Tanya's Individual Contribution Page

Fall 2010

This semester I was the team leader of the Plate Settler Spacing Team. My contributions include:

Helped run the clay velocity gradient experiments.
Helped formulate future goals for Plate Settler Spacing, updated models, and worked on velocity gradient clay experiment paper.
Helped draft reflection reports and maintained the PSS wiki page.
Helped with reformulating the parameters for tube re-runs required for next semester (due to the model error).
Helped with Dynamics Model, mostly just checking up, overseeing, and contributing information. Actual Matlab coding and modeling was done by Cosme.

Summer 2010 Semester Contribution

This semester, I was subteam leader of the Plate Settler Spacing team. I helped with developing the process controller method, experimental design, and the bench scale apparatus. We began running experiments to test the floc roll-up theory.

Spring 2010 Semester Contributions

This semester, I was part of the Plate Settler Spacing team. My responsibilities included aiding in planning, setting up, running experiments and analyzing data. I also drafted and updated pages for the AguaClara wiki. In terms of planning experiments, I helped perform calculations for the first set of experiments (Coupled effects of capture velocity and velocity gradients) and analyzed the data shown on the wiki page for that experiment. I have also done programmed most of the Process Controller methods used in the experiment and for the upcoming experiments. In terms of setting up experiments, I helped prepare the tubing and proposed the addition of a reservoir system. The wiki pages I have drafted for the PSS team are listed below. Additionally, I have helped in updating most of the wiki pages drafted for the Spring 2010 semester.

Summer 2009 Semester Contributions

This semester, I am was the leader of the Floating Floc research subteam. Thus far, the bulk of my responsibilities include My responsibilities included training new members of the Floating Floc team, assembling and debugging the experimental setup to be used this summer with my teammates, running experiments, performing literature searches, creating parts of presentations, updating the wiki, and generally organizing/coordinating the summer plans of the floating floc team with team members in a way that is was hopefully reasonable and beneficial to all. The Floating Floc team's summer plans can be viewed in the Summer 2009 detailed task list and research proposal which can be reached via the Floating Floc main page.Currently, the bulk of the system has been debugged and is functionally up and running. Hopefully, we will be able to consistently run experiments, collect and analyze data. In the time we were unable to run experiments, the team and I focused on teach-ins and other assignments while trying to fix the setup. Additionally, we decided to begin performing literature searches earlier than originally planned.

Spring 2009 Semester Contributions

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