Goals for Spring 2009
Subteam Leader: Jeff Katz (jak232)
Other team members
Challenges
New Baffle System
- Build new baffle system that can be constructed quickly that allows for easy modification of baffles at the Pilot Plant
- Subteams of two from the PP team will be constructing a row of baffles for each of the floc tank channels.
- Install new baffles
Automatic Alum Dosing
- Research effects of turbidity, temperature, pH, etc. on alum dosing from literature
- Determine formula for appropriate dosing based on above measures
- Incorporate formula into Process Controller to automatically change alum dose based on inflow water
Develop Flocculator Performance Curves
- Run the plant, fix any leaks or problems
- Art, Mike
- Calibrate all turbidity meters (Ian has the standards)
- Develop protocol for plant maintenance to ensure that collected data is not affected by dirty turbidimeters
- Develop plan to set alum dose appropriately (automatic alum dosing)
- Determine procedure for taking turbidity profiles for consistency and to make results comparable
- Collect turbidity profiles for different baffle arrangements and tapered vs. non-tapered arrangements
- Art, Mike (this will be ongoing for several weeks)
- Compile data, analyze, graph results
- Rustom
_FReTA Comparison_
- Set up FReTA to be used with the tube flocculator (three way comparison between CUWFP's flocculated water, the tube flocculated water, and the pilot plant flocculator)
- Jeff. Collaborate with Ian.
Bibliography
References for our project that our team has found in literature searches.
Deliverables
Submissions for end of semester
- New, easy to construct, easy to adjust baffle system
- Method for obtaining turbidity profiles
- Turbidity profiles for different baffle arrangements and for tapered vs. non-tapered baffles
- Settling velocity data for Pilot Plant FReTa
- Comparison of Pilot Plant FReTa results with lab results