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Repository for the Horizontal Filtration subteam! We will be fabricating a horizontal filter and seeing if it works!
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Calculating dimensions of "fish tank" model #9

Open Galantino opened 6 years ago

Galantino commented 6 years ago

Given that the flow speed is 1.8 mm/s and the desired flow rate is 1 L/s, this will leave us with the area of flow for the sand in between the plates to be .75 square meters. Is this right? This is rather large for a standard fish tank. We may have to construct our own tank. Also, to achieve this flow in the sand, the flow going through the holes in the inlet will be rather large, but this should sort itself out. Thoughts?

eak24 commented 6 years ago

@Galantino I think we should aim for a scale model - we don't need to make a full 1 L/s model. Let's get as tall a fish tank as we can, and maybe aim for something like 0.1 L/s. How does that sound? If you build your own tank, that could take the whole semester!

Galantino commented 6 years ago

I like that sound! We would like to model through fusion first though

eak24 commented 6 years ago

Definitely Fusion it up!

Galantino commented 6 years ago

We have done some calculations and would like for you to look over it @monroews @ethan92429. We are pretty lost in relating head and how it will determine the dimensions of the tank. Since we are in horizontal and vertical orientation, relating dimensions is strange. You can see our atom file called DimensionalAnalysis in our repository

monroews commented 6 years ago

Define what it is you are trying to calculate. I suspect that this filter design has a lot of flexibility so you have to start with what you know. What do you think will change as you vary each of the dimensions, H, W, L? Do a thought experiment and vary each of those dimensions over a wide range and figure out what other constraints might matter. Think about failures related to both backwash and to filtration modes.