Floating Floc Meeting Minutes
Spring 2009 Minutes
February 20, 2009
Accomplishments
- Goal revisions
- Final decision on the setup for the relevant literature page: Title, Summary, Link to URL or PDF.
Sand group
- Met with Monroe to setup the Process Control.
- Completely setup the Process Control for their setup.
Bubble group
- AutoCAD drawing
- Created an airtight bubble system
- Wrote meeting minutes
Metrics
Sand sub team
- The sand filter is almost complete except for an additional hole in the flow accumulator for the initial DO probe.
- Calibrated the two DO probes for the sand filter setup to measure the DO content before and after the water flow through the sand layer.
- Completion of the diagram of the sand filter.
Bubble sub team
- Met on Thursday, Friday, Monday and Wednesday to work on setting up the cylinder contraption.
- Added and labeled all tubes for the cylinder bubble contraption
- Replaced the O ring for the air stone
- Fixed water leak
- Added an O ring to the lid valve
- Fixed air leak
- Met with Monroe
- Nearly exploded the system with Monroe in the room
- Added another pressure sensor to the air rotameter
- Replaced some tubes with smaller ones
Outcomes
Sand team
- The sand filter group will meet on Saturday to do the first run with the new and completed setup.
Bubble team
- Learned about how DO probes work
- Working system
- Should be able to begin actual experiments later this week barring any catastrophes
Issues
- The sand filter setup need another hole 3/8" for another DO probe for the initial DO reading.
- Both subgroups need to complete the summaries of relevant literature before the next Meeting Minutes.
- Need another pump head for bubbles
- Have to get the conversion for the air flow meter from Monroe