Andrea Pozo, Cheer Tsang, Grace Mitchell, Sidney Lok
Abstract:
The fall semester of 2016 marks the beginning of the Sensor Development subteam to AguaClara, which was created in response to the needs of the Upflow Anaerobic Sludge Blanket (UASB) and Anaerobic Fluidized Bed (AFB) subteams. This semester, the primary goals of this subteam were to develop a gas measurement sensor and a fluidized bed solids concentrator sensor for AguaClara plants. The subteam finalized a method of gas measurement, programmed settings in ProCoDa, and built four final product gas sensors for the AFB subteam. For the fluidized bed solids concentrator sensor, the subteam took measurements of the photosensor output and developed a method to correlate photosensor output to the existing intensity of fluidized solids.
