Design Meeting Minutes

Summer 2009 Minutes

7/24/2009

Accomplishments

• Changed the sed weirs to be the entire length of the inlet and exit channels and coded the autocad code.

Goals for Upcoming Week

• Work on final presentation, indiviudal contribution pages, challenges for next semester.

Horizontal Flow Group

Accomplishments

Issues

Goals for Upcoming Week

• Floc Hopper Group

Accomplishments

•  Fixed the lamella orientation so that the lamella are angling away from the entrance channel, as opposed to originally being angled towards it.
• Added to MtoA code so that floc hoppers will be arrayed the number of sedimentation bays within the tank.

Issues

•  Still need to place the floc hoppers within the plant.
•  Must add the MtoA floc hopper code to the sedimentation tank with pieces file when we are completed with it.

Goals for upcoming week

•  Place floc hopper within plant, and add MtoA code to sed tank with pieces file.
•  Update wiki page with final notes about floc hopper design and placement.

Floc Tank Group

Accomplishments

• slots are drawn in the floc tank, and baffle widths are adjusted accordingly
• L.slot is now a basic input (the depth of the slot) set to a default of 5cm

Issues

• the up/down orientation of baffles in the last channel is backwards
• the length of the baffles do not seem to be correct

Goals for upcoming week

• meet with Monroe to determine the fate of baffles that coincide with the exit channel
• correct baffle orientation in the last channel
• correct baffle lengths

Materials List Group

Accomplishments

Issues

Goals for upcoming week