Floating Flocs Meeting Minutes

Spring 2009 Minutes

April 3, 2009

Working Group: Sand Filter

Accomplishments

• Wrote meeting minutes
• Combined aeration group with sand filter group
• Former aeration group members were briefed on the sand filter method

Metrics

• Talked to Monroe about parameters we should be looking at
• Talked to Professor Cowen about modeling drag on irregular objects
• Talked to Professor Stewart in the Geotech. department about getting sand
• Talked to Paul about making a new bubble collector
• Made a rough drawing of a new automated bubble collector

Outcomes

• Decided that depth was the least important factor in our initial experiments
• Obtained soil of mixed grain sizes and separated them via sieves
• Confirmed automated bubble collector design

Issues

• Need to build new bubble collector and get it up and running
• Need to figure out how to control valves and pumps in Process Controller
• Might need to get a new pump