Leah Buerman's Individual Contribution Page

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Senior / Meng student in Biological and Environmental Engineering
Research Plant Inflow System team member working with the pilot plant Automated Chemical Doser and Pilot Plant and focusing on the Linear Flow Orifice Meter.

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This semester I have been focused on perfecting the FLOM design techniques by re-evaluating the intital data that the mathcad code is based on. I spent a good amount of time reading on the internet and trying to understand how and why the Sutro weir, linear-proportional weir, works. The website for the is available on the wiki sutro wier research page|LFOM sutro weir research]and provides a very helpful discussion of the sutro weir. From that paper and the CEE 454 slides I created an equations page for the sutro wier, available here. The format of eqautions was very difficult for me to figure out, it took several attempts but I now have a strong grasp of the process. This semester I have documented portions of the mathcad code, in order to improve the efficiency of project turn-around. The documentation pages for weir design and flow rate through weir are completed. For the rest of the semester I hope to test the overflow situation and complete the paper.

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