Monthly Archives: June 2012

Week 9 and 10

Posted on June 12, 2012 by kpbennet

Corrosion Test: To test how corrosive the chlorine is on the pump, we cut off two small chunks of the pump and placed one in a beaker with 0.001% chlorine solution (10 ppm) and the other in a beaker with … Continue reading →

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Week 10

Posted on June 8, 2012 by isaacmadan

This week we gave a presentation to the CEE 177S class. It was nice to hear about what the other teams have accomplished over the course of the past two quarters. Moreover, ist was a great opportunity for us to … Continue reading →

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Week 10 Update

Posted on June 7, 2012 by cacdiaz

We revived our chlorine tests this week and found the following: 1.  The non-return valves we installed about a month ago are working properly—we no longer see chlorine contamination in our water reservoir! 2.  After dropping our starting chlorine concentration … Continue reading →

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Week 9

Posted on June 1, 2012 by isaacmadan

This week we evaluated how various pumping speeds affect the dosing. It appears first that the dosing is variable across pumping speeds. For slow speeds, we’ve determined that dosing is fairly inconsistent. For medium and fast speeds, the dosing is … Continue reading →

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Week 9 Update

Posted on June 1, 2012 by cacdiaz

This week, we devoted most of our testing time to investigating the effect of varying pumping speed, as well as the height of our chlorine source relative to our water source.  We found that slower pumping speeds resulted in higher … Continue reading →

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