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This spring we will be continuing work with the turbulent flocculator. One of the first tasks we were hoping to accomplish is to try to get the air bubbles out of the flocculator. We will also be designing a SWaT system, or a settled water turbidity analysis system. The SWaT will consist of a tube sedimentation tank and a tube settler. The water will then either be analyzed with a turbidimeter or go to waste. Ultimately we hope to test floc breakup theory, to determine whether it is better to break up flocs or to let them grow.
Fall 2014 Contributions
This fall we will be working on updating the turbulent tube flocculator apparatus and process controller file. We also performed a clay test to determine that the turbulent tube flocculator flows largely like a plug flow reactor with some dispersion.
Spring 2015 Contributions
This semester I will be continuing work on the Turbulent Tube Flocculator subteam. We have updated our process controller method file to increment through a range of coagulant doses and we will be using this file to (hopefully) run experiments.