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Pilot Plant at the Cornell University Water Filtration Plant

Full Scale Sed Tank (max 3)

Design and build a larger scale sed tank that will make it possible to fully test our sed tank designs

Floc blanket and Plate settler (max 3)

• Test plate settler performance with and without a floc blanket to access the utility of floc blankets.

  Triangular manifold for sed tanks (max 2)

• Build manifold prototype and test ability to uniformly deliver flow to plate settlers
• Explore overlapping alternating jets from the two manifolds as an inlet configuration that would distribute flow more uniformly into a sed tank (where jets impinge flow would be vertical toward center of tank, where jets miss each other flow would be toward walls of the tank)

  Tapered flocculation (max 2)

• Experiment with alternative designs for G vs Gθ (this could interfere with the sedimentation research. Perhaps this should wait until the tube floc and CFD research teams can provide an improved design.)
• Determine properties of tube flocculation with raw water. (ideal settling velocities, floc densities, Gtheta values)

Computation Fluid Dynamics (baffled flocculator)

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