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Our research focuses on evaluating the current system and reducing unnecessary water waste, chemical use, and construction costs associated with the flocculator and sedimentation tank. This optimization process would essentially reduce the size of the system and ultimately reduce the cost of building and maintaining an AguaClara designed water treatment plant. Experimentation for this group will be guided by a cost analysis of these two major features and parameters such as flocculator length, recycle flow rate ratio, sedimentation upflow velocity and capture velocity will be reevaluated.
In addition, the effects of introducing a floc recycle process will be analyzed so as to determine if the reuse of developed flocs will benefit the efficiency of the system.
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Current & Future ResearchAs a brand new team to AguaClara, our current research is focusing on gaining a strong understanding of the current plant design, the costs associated with building an AguaClara plant, and the process control system in the laboratory. In the near future we plan to move onto reevaluating and altering the current laboratory setup and beginning experimentation with the system. We are currently testing the benefits and/or drawbacks of using floc recycle. |
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