SES88 - MidTerm Report

Mid-Term Semester Accomplishments

So far this semester has been a lot of construction and modification. The pilot plant team and myself has taken the first few weeks of the semester to ensure that the data collected for the pilot plant in the future will be accurate. Although the modifications took longer that was initially planned I believe the time was well spent to ensure that there is no bypassing in the tank and the flow measuring bucket is in place. While the tank was off line time was not wasted the turbidity meters were pressurized, a method for submerging the tube settlers was developed and tank lighting was improved by submerging a large florescent light. The connections holding the baffles together had also managed to come loose and thus time was spent to disassemble the entire system and tighten all connections.

Kevin, Dave and I work together to design the sedimentation tank that will hopefully be added to the flocculator at the water treatment plant. Currently a preliminary design has been completed and an evaulation of the the design's plausibility is under way, along with a cost analysis.

I did a lot work to update the old reports to the wiki. Compiling large portions of the three past reports. I was aided in this task by Rebecca, Dave and Kevin. For the midterm report I altered and updated a lot of the goals for the semester as well as updating the sections of the wiki report that pertained to the tank modifications. My Gantt chart was also updated and posted to the wiki.
Pilot Plant
Research Log
For the reports I produced several of the schematics of the changes to be made for the plant.

Schematics include:

This first schematic shows how the the submersible light is suspended under water.

This schematic shows how we intended to and submerge the settling tubes to eliminate the temperature difference in the settling column.

This is the system designed to pressurize the turbidimeters, this presssurization was needed to keep oxygen in solution.

My Gantt Chart can also be seen below, it contains and update list of what I will be working on for the rest of the semester.
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