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Setup Apparatus

  • Use FCM column from last semester
  • Hook up pressure sensor to bottom of column

Process Controller

  • Gemma will setup program to empty column when full
  • Regulate data through PC

For Next Week

  • Get setup complete
  • Make sure PC is regulating data and emptying column when necessary
  • Start running first background experiments
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Process Controller

  • Gemma and Ian set up the process controller over the weekend but empty state was not working correcting and the value shut off after it opened.
  • Monroe helped solve the problem by creating a new empty state
  • Problem with previous old state unknown

Running Experiment

  • Filled the bucket and set up the automated process controller to collect data
  • Pressure data is being collected per second

Next Week

  • Analyze collected data
  • Make necessary changes to set up (position pressure value so it cannot be moved)
  • Run a test with a know initial level of water in clay pot
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Wednesday, March 12, 2008

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New Setup

  • Attached pressure sensor at the bottom of collection bucket
  • Will manually empty bucket when it fills
  • Determined that the clay pot will not affect the water level in the collection bucket

Process Controller

-Fixed pressure sensor issue (pressure not being recognized by process controller)
-Deleted "Empty" state
-No longer automated, locked in manual "data collection state"

Next Week

-Have several runs of data
-Analyze data

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