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This semester I am on the Turbulent Tube Flocculator and Fluidized Bed Flocculator team. We hope to design and construct have designed and constructed a settled water turbidity measurement apparatus , calibrate and troubleshoot (SWaT) for the turbulent tube flocculator, and design and construct a fluidized bed flocculator. We also developed a method file in process controller and ran baseline experiments. Based on poor effluent turbidity, we want to make several alterations to the apparatus. After the improvements, future teams will hopefully see reasonable particle removal.
We have also designed a fluidized bed flocculator, in which an up-flow sand filter will accomplish flocculation and a SWaT unit will measure effluent trubidity. The sand column and SWaT have been constructed, so future teams will need to connect the electronic control systems and create a method file in process controller.