Floating Floc Meeting Minutes

Spring 2009 Minutes

February 20, 2009

Accomplishments

• Goal revisions
• Final decision on the setup for the relevant literature page: Title, Summary, Link to URL or PDF.

Sand group

• Met with Monroe to setup the Process Control.
• Completely setup the Process Control for their setup.

Bubble group

• AutoCAD drawing
• Created an airtight bubble system
• Wrote meeting minutes

Metrics

Sand sub team

• The sand filter is almost complete except for an additional hole in the flow accumulator for the initial DO probe.
• Calibrated the two DO probes for the sand filter setup to measure the DO content before and after the water flow through the sand layer.
• Completion of the diagram of the sand filter.

Bubble sub team

• Met on Thursday, Friday, Monday and Wednesday to work on setting up the cylinder contraption.
• Added and labeled all tubes for the cylinder bubble contraption
• Replaced the O ring for the air stone
• Fixed water leak
• Added an O ring to the lid valve
• Fixed air leak
• Met with Monroe
• Nearly exploded the system with Monroe in the room
• Added another pressure sensor to the air rotameter
• Replaced some tubes with smaller ones

Outcomes

Sand team

• The sand filter group will meet on Saturday to do the first run with the new and completed setup.

Bubble team

• Learned about how DO probes work
• Working system
• Should be able to begin actual experiments later this week barring any catastrophes

Issues

• The sand filter setup need another hole 3/8" for another DO probe for the initial DO reading.
• Both subgroups need to complete the summaries of relevant literature before the next Meeting Minutes.
• Need another pump head for bubbles
• Have to get the conversion for the air flow meter from Monroe