This semester, I have learned a lot about the pilot plant and its role in the AguaClara project. In the beginning of the semester, I worked with the team to make several modifications to the plant. These included enlarging the holes between baffle sections, cleaning the tank, and designing a support mechanism so that the tube settlers can be submerged in the water.
One of the concerns that we had with the data from previous semesters is that the tube settlers might not be a good approximation of AguaClara's standard sedimentation tanks. In order to verify the data from the tube settlers, I designed a grab sample procedure. The data from this procedure will be compared to the data from the turbidimeters to verify if the