Goals for Spring 2009
Subteam Leader: Jeff Katz (jak232)
Other team members
Challenges
New Baffle System
- Build new baffle system that can be constructed quickly that allows for easy modification of baffles at the Pilot Plant
- Subteams of two from the PP team will be constructing a row of baffles for each of the floc tank channels.
- Install new baffles
Automatic Alum Dosing
- Research affects of turbidity, temperature, pH, etc. on alum dosing
- Determine formula for appropriate dosing based on above measures
- Incorporate formula into Process Controller to automatically change alum dose with inflow raw water turbidity and temperature
Develop Flocculator Performance Curves
- Run the plant, fix any leaks or problems
- Art, Mike
- Determine procedure for taking turbidity profiles
- Collect turbidity profiles for different baffle arrangements and tapered vs. non-tapered arrangements
- Art, Mike (this will be ongoing for several weeks)
- Calibrate all turbidity meters (Ian has the standards)
- Develop protocol for plant maintenance to ensure that collected data is not affected by dirty turbidimeters
- Develop plan to set alum dose appropriately.
- Compile data, analyze, graph results
- Rustom
-FReTA Comparison_
- Set up FReTA to be used with the tube flocculator and use to compare settling velocities at different points in the tube flocculator (three way comparison between CUWFP's flocculated water, the tube flocculated water, and the pilot plant flocculator)
- Jeff. Collaborate with Ian.
Bibliography
References for our project that our team has found in literature searches.
Deliverables
Submissions for end of semester
- New, easy to construct, easy to adjust baffle system
- Method for obtaining turbidity profiles
- Turbidity profiles for different baffle arrangements and for tapered vs. non-tapered baffles
- Settling velocity data for Pilot Plant FReTa
- Comparison of Pilot Plant FReTa results with lab results