Cosme's Individual Contribution Page

 Spring 2011 - PSS team

This Spring the team will finish exploring the high velocity gradients effect on plate settler performance. Thanks to Karen , Michael and Tanya , we have been able to set a more convenient way of handling and analyzing the data. I'm training new team members to use the bench-scale setup, improving the theory: the pi ratio model and the dynamics model. Our goal is to be able to provide the necessary information for scaling plate settlers to their optimal size.

 Fall 2010 - PSS team

The fall 2010 semester was about running experiments to assess the effect of the velocity gradient (the value of the derivative of the velocity profile at the bottom plate) on plate settlers and looking at the floc roll up failure mechanism. The first experimental results showed that we had a model for predicting failure but this model was not able to estimate the magnitude of failure.

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