Flocculation
The particles that form in the water as a result of the flocculation process.
What is a floc?
Another name for sedimentation/used synonymously with sedimentation.
What is clarification?
What StaRS filtration stands for.
What is Stacked Rapid Sand Filter?
The primary source of energy in the AguaClara treatment plant.
What is gravity?
An animal that a filter does not look like.
What is a beaver?
A class of compounds that inhibits our flocculation process, so much that we have a whole subteam based on it!
What is dissolved organic matter?
The angle that the plate settlers are set at
What is 60º?
This is inside the backwash pipe to prevent backwashing from occurring when not triggered.
What is compressed air?
The final stage of the AguaClara treatment process.
What is chlorination?
The community points team that is currently in the lead.
What is team Ivysaur?
The name for the grooved plates in the flocculator
What are baffles?
These were designed to prevent flocs from being pushed to the back end of the sedimentation tank due to the incoming velocity of the water.
(You do not need to know the exact name of these, just be able to describe what they are)
What are the inlet manifold diffusers?
The number of inlet and outlet pipes in a single StaRS filter.
What are 4 inlet pipes and 3 outlet pipes?
Point out where the flocculator is located on the image of the AguaClara treatment plant
Ian's food name from the name game we played during the new member orientation.
What is ice cream?
The amount of time (residence time) of water in the AguaClara flocculator. (any value within the general range of values is okay)
The approximate upflow velocity through the plate settlers.
What is 1 mm/s
What is up to 10 L/s?
The number of currently operational AguaClara treatment plants in Central America and India.
What is 25?
What did one ocean say to the other?
The reason that particles of different sizes won't collide with each other.
What is shear flow?
The two predominant forces acting on flocs in the sedimentation tank that exist in balance to cause suspension.
What are gravity and force of fluid flow?
The head loss through the filter over time. You should come up to the whiteboard and draw this graph.
What is increasing linearly?
This is what NTU stands for.
What is Nephelometric Turbidity Unit?
The address for the EIA + AguaClara social this Friday
What is 516 University Ave. Apt. B1