Felice Chan, Brooke Pian, Amanda Rodriguez, Greta Schneider-Herr
Turbulent Tube Flocculator – Fall 2013
Felice Chan, Jonathan Christensen, Stephen Jacobs, Ana Oliveira
Abstract:
The purpose of our research is to design, build, and eventually test a lab scale turbulent tube flocculator. This is important because while the AguaClara plants in Honduras and India have flocculation that occurs in turbulent ow, the prior AguaClara program research has focused on laminar tube flocculators. Thus, with the turbulent tube flocculator experimental apparatus, future AguaClara researchers will be able to more accurately conduct research to perfect the design of the full-scale plant. The prior literature that proved most relevant related to either the materials needed for the turbulent tube flocculator to be built or the size of eddies necessary for flocculation.
The 2013 summer semester AguaClara team's design for the turbulent tube flocculator was that the flocculator should be a vertical single coiled tubing configuration. The design used two pairs of pipes to constrict the tube in the coil to create turbulent eddies. The main goal of the Fall 2013 team was to perfect the initial design created in the summer of 2013 and then build the turbulent tube flocculator.
