Marlana's Individual Contribution Page
Summer 2012 Contributions
During the summer of 2012, I worked on creating an LFOM orifice template to be used on-site in facilitating precise drilling of orifices during LFOM fabrication. The rendering of the template in AutoCAD is automated with input parameters of plant flow rate and head loss in the LFOM. Significant work was done on the template by the end of the summer, and it was later completed by other members of the design team. In addition, preliminary work began on generating a scale for the LFOM, Chemical Dose Controller, and Calibration Column with a general algorithm that input parameters such as scale range, scale length, tick length, font size, and scale orientation.
Spring 2013 Contributions
This semester, I am working on the Sedimentation Tank Hydraulics Team with preliminary objectives to switch to using PAC and optimize the sedimentation tank geometry to positively influence tank performance. We wish to discover the influence of floc hopper depth on sludge consolidation, how jet nozzle size influences energy dissipation rate (and subsequently, influences the floc blanket), and develop a relationship giving the time until floc blanket formation. Thus far, we have modified the tank geometry to be used for future experiments.