Lucinda's Individual Contribution Page

Spring 2016 Contributions

As a member of the StaRS filtration theory subteam, I collaborated with my subteam to design and conduct experiments to test the StaRS filter performance under various doses of coagulant. Our experiments resulted in a plethora of data on head loss, effluent turbidity, and pC* at varying doses of coagulant. Through extensive data analysis, we were able to predict important relationships between head loss and time, head loss and failure time, PACl dosage and failure time, etc. Ultimately, we will use this data to create a mathematical model of the filter's performance in relation to coagulant dosage. 

Fall 2016 Contributions

This semester, I will work with the subteam to convert the data collected during the Spring 2016 semester into relationships between various variables affecting the filter performance. Using such relationships, we will examine the hypothesis that there are small regions of particle removal during the filtration apparatus that travel along the filter as the previous section gets clogged. Our speculations will allow us to create a model of the filter that can predict failure time given the coagulant input.