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In the Summer of 2010, I was awarded an Engineering Learning Initiatives Develop-Your-Own Internship grantsgrant, which enabled me to work with the AguaClara team full-time. During this time, I led both the Stacked Rapid Sand Filtration (SRSF) and the Polyurethane Foam Filtration (PFF) teams. Responsibilities included bench-scale experiment design and set-up, fabrication, research, data analysis, and technical reporting and presentation of results. The SRSF research successfully proved the concept of the stacked rapid sand filter design by demonstration of the bench-scale filter's filtration and backwash capabilities. The PFF research continued to delineate the optimal range of operational parameters, including flow rate, influent turbidity, and dose of alum coagulant added to influent turbid water.
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