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This team is responsible for maintaining and upgrading the automated design tool and for delivering AguaClara plant designs to implementation partners. This team will need to grow significantly this semester.

Subteam Leader: Sara Schwetschenau

Number of team members needed: 5

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Total: 3 to 5 people max
Additional for Spring 2009: 1 to 3

Important team member skills:

CEE 3310, or equivalent Fluid Dynamics course
CEE 4540 co or prerequisite
Student must be comfortable with coding

Challenges

• Create an organized method of handling multiple designs so that we don�t have the confusion of not knowing what design assumptions correspond to the different facilities that are being designed. Put the final design files for a facility on the wiki. Include ALL of the associated design files so that as design algorithms evolve it will still be possible to see the designs of each facility.
• Document the designs of the existing facilities (as built) in a table format
• Integrate lessons learned during the construction of the Cuatro Comunidades plant into the design and AutoCAD code.
• Add construction details including ledge that supports the plate settlers, inlet manifold plates, sludge drain channel, sludge drain plates, sedimentation tank inlet drop tubes, inlet channel port covers, etc.
• Create several series of plant designs to illustrate how the designs vary as a function of flow rate and design assumptions. Post these designs on the wiki.
• Flocculation program: include the Energy Dissipation Approach and to draw the baffles correctly for different numbers of flocculator channels.
• Sedimentation inlet manifold program:
  • Check
• Edit the flocculation program
  • Energy Dissipation Approach
• Edit the sedimentation slopes program
  • Correct arbitrary assumptions - 1/3 velocity factor? , Square ports? Number of ports per slope?, Distance between ports.
  • Check Automate slopes program to check for reasonable values
• Update the Variable Naming Guide
• Check AutoCAD dimensions
  • H.SedRectangle > B.Port Check to be added to Sedimentation Slopes Program
• Adding Add pictures to programs pages
• Group related objects in AutoCAD to make manipulation of the drawings easier (plate settlers, baffles, inlet manifold plates, etc.)

  Research

  Pilot Plant Spring 2009 Challenges

Number of team members needed: 3 returning and 1-2 new members

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