Floating Floc Meeting Minutes

Summer 2009 Minutes

June 9, 2009

Working Group: Fluidized Bed Group

Accomplishments

• Chose a team leader: Tanya
• Reviewed sand filter theory and experimental setup
• Reviewed process controller basics
• Revewied summer expectations:
  Determined experimental parameters for measuring air removal and discussed experiments
  Parameters:

1. Bed depth (quantity of sand)
2. Dissolved air concentration
3. Grain size / porosity
4. Upflow velocity / bed expansion

Experiments:

1. Varying bed depth with other parameters held constant
2. Varying dissolved air concentration with all other parameters held constant
3. Varying bed expansion with other parameters held constant
4. Trying to measure dissolved oxygen and correlate it with results from the bubble collector

Tasks:

1. Develop a MathCAD based upon experimental results

Issues

• Set up the experimental system
• Write Process Controller methods

Goals for upcoming week

• Write Detailed Task List and Research Proposal
• Finish the experimental set up and process controller methods