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Challenges for Spring 2009
Subteam Leader: h3. Sarah Long/Colette Kopon
Number of team members needed: h3. max 3
Important team member skills:
Challenges
System
- Make the system more robust
1. Improve the tube settler connection
2. Stabilize the tube flocculators
Experiments
- Jet dissipation
1. Run experiments using a mesh with 1 cm diameter holes
2. Run fluid mechanics experiments to determine the rate of jet dissipation with the cone
- Tube spacings
1. Vary flow rates with each tube size
2. Varying Floc blanket height
3. Vary alum dosage
Process controller
- Use process control incremental method for varying flowrates with each tube spacing
- Set up a system that allows comments to be made without collecting data twice in process controller
- Develop some sort of video recording system to monitor floc blanket growth