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Erica Gardner's Individual Contribution Page
Fall 2016 Contributions
My goal this semester is to help construct the Anaerobic Fluidized Bed Reactors and troubleshoot clogging and other problems in order to achieve steady state operation and begin controlled experimentation to understand methanogenesis and COD removal in AFBs. I also would like to explore other configuration possibilities for high rate anaerobic reactors.This semester I have been working on the Anaerobic Fluidized Bed Reactor (AFB) team. We have been working to troubleshoot and update the reactors designed last year to make them useful for experimentation. We developed a de-clogging system and an overflow back-up system, and also adjusted the reactors to make methane sensor installation possible. We have inoculated the reactors with granules and will begin experimentation on two of the reactors in the next few weeks.