Tube Flocculator Research and Experimentation

Current Research

The team has discussed and agreed on several important goals to focus on for the Spring semester 2008:

1. Analyze the data from the Fall Semester 2007 and make solid conclusions. The team will look into further analytical tools such as Excel, MatLab, and MathCAD to handle and display the data in a better, more user friendly format. The team last semester found that the current MathCAD file is hard to use, for example if the user wants to isolate one run in a series of iterated experiments or compare certain runs to each other on the same graph.
2. Develop models to describe what is happening in the flocculator. The team will use this to determine what parameters are important in regulating the flocculation process.
3. Literature research to compare research, to see if previous similar experiments have been conducted, or for inspiration for further experiments or data analysis.
4. Find the relationship between G and G¿. This is the ultimate goal that the team is trying to determine, it will take a combination of data analyses, modeling, and maybe more experimentation.

Cumulative Tube Flocculator Research