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I was a member of the Small Scale Plant Model team. We planned to build a model of a water filtration plant that will be built to scale within the dimensions of a carry-on suitcase and will be used for educating others and encouraging donations to the AguaClara team. This semester, I used the software Rhinoceros to lay out individual plant pieces in order to have templates ready for laser cutting the pieces, saved these pieces in usable AutoCAD drawing files, and researched laser cutting, Plexiglas, and other materials for building the final model. I also worked on the beginning of the construction of the mock-up model, which has been partially completed.
Summer 2013 Contributions
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In addition, I helped put together some of the parts of the small scale plant model, which has been used for publicity and demonstrations.
Spring 2014 Contributions
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Spring 2015 Contributions
I am was a member of the StaRS Filter Theory team. I will design designed and built an apparatus to test whether slotted pipes clog at certain turbidities and coagulant dosages. I will also continue moving forward in developing the mathematical model of filtration, as well as wrote a new Process Controller method file to run experiments. I ran several experiments that caused the slotted pipes to clog, analyzed head loss data, and defined failure points for slotted pipes. My data analysis was used to determine what conditions caused slots in the pipes to clog.