Goals for Spring 2009
Subteam Leader: Jeff Katz (jak232)
Other team members
- Rustom Meyer (rlm56)
- Art Schull (avs32)
- Eladio Lopez (el447)
- Michael Liu (ml627)
Challenges
- Design new, indepedently movable baffles
- All group members will be working on this for the week of Feb 9th
- Build one baffle of each of the proposed, viable designs
- Each group member will have a design to build independently (Feb 16)
- Analyze prototypes based on cost, ease of construction, practicality, and efficacy
- Rustom (Feb 22)
- Procure funding to build new baffle system based on chosen design
- Full group (Feb 23)
- Build new baffle system and install at Pilot Plant
- Full group. Complete after procuring funding. Should take 1-2 weeks to finish.
- Run the plant, fix any leaks or problems
- Art, Mike (after new baffle system is in place, early March)
- Begin research on dose controller at the pilot plant and construct
- Rustom, Lalo (beginning of March). Collaborate with dose control group.
- Collect turbidity profiles for different baffle arrangements and tapered vs. non-tapered arrangements
- Art, Mike (this will be ongoing for several weeks)
- Set up FReTA to be used with the tube flocculator and use to compare settling velocities at different points in the tube flocculator
- Jeff (March). Collaborate with Ian.
- Compare raw water readings from the Pilot Plant FReTA with the laboratory results
- Jeff (March). Collaborate with Ian.
- After completion of these challenges, formulate challenges for sedimentation tank and begin research there
- Full group. After completion of aforementioned goals.
Bibliography
References for our project that our team has found in literature searches.
Deliverables
Submissions for end of semester
- AutoCAD drawing of new baffle design as well as picture of completed baffle system
- Turbidity profiles of different baffle spacings
- Documentation of dose controller at Pilot Plant
- Settling velocity data for Pilot Plant FReTa
- Comparison of Pilot Plant FReTa results with lab results