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Below are the 3 versions of our Sedimentation Tanks:
Closed Top Tank:
Open Top Tank:
Parallel Lamella Tank:
Procedure
We ran our Demo Plant with the above tanks at 50, 100, and 150mL/min and averaged our trials in order to observe which sedimentation tank resulted in the lowest turbidity overall.
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Graph of Comparison at 50mL/min:
Graph of Comparison at 100mL/min:
Graph of Comparison at 150mL/min:
Conclusion
From this data, we observed that at 100mL/min and 150mL/min the Open Top design produced the lowest turbidity. At 50mL/min, the Parallel Lamella design resulted in the lowest turbidity. Since we care most about how the plant runs at 100mL/min, we determined that the Open Top tank was the best for our purposes.